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bPercutaneous aortic valve replacement- a revolution in Cardiac Surgery /b
The aortic valve in the heart is the valve that governs the flow of blood into a large blood vessel namely the aorta, which supplies blood to various organs of the body. It prevents the blood from...
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What Rheumatic Fever Can Do To Children - Awareness is the Key to Protection
Many adults do not seek medical attention for a persistent throat infection in their children. This is fraught with danger, especially if the fever takes a turn for the worse. It is surmised that a...
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Heart Palpitations are Usually Harmless
Heart palpitations cause anxiety but they are usually harmless, reports a study. Palpitations are common in people as the way of experiencing it comes through common behaviour and emotions. Sometimes,...
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Cardiac Surgery Drug Aprotinin Linked to Higher Death Risk
A study conducted by researchers at the Duke University Medical Centre, on controversial cardiac surgery drug Aprotinin, has discovered that it increases death rates and damages kidney function....
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Post Cardiac Surgery Delirium Could Be Reduced By Stain Administration
A new study has provided some of the first evidence that the use of cholesterol-lowering statins before cardiac surgery decreases the odds of postoperative delirium in elderly patients. Previous...
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Australian Researchers Develop Rheumatic Fever Vaccine
Scientists at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research have developed a rheumatic fever vaccine. Human trials are to start next year, they told a conference in Brisbane today. The vaccine could...
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Cardiac Surgery Patients Warned About Exposure to Hepatitis B by Swansea...
A hospital in Swansea has warned over 150 patients who underwent cardiac surgery at the hospital that they might have been exposed to hepatitis B virus. Administrators at the Morriston Hospital in...
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Rheumatic Heart Disease More Easily Detected Through Echocardiogram Screenings
A new study published in the journal Circulation reveals that rheumatic heart disease (RHD) can be more easily detected through routine screening with echocardiogram instead of clinical examinations....
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Outcome of Patients Who Refuse Transfusion Following Cardiac Surgery...
According to a report, Jehovah's Witness patients who undergo cardiac surgery do not appear to be at increased risk for surgical complications or death. This is in comparison to those patients who...
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Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients' Results may Not Improve With Tight Blood...
New research has highlighted the effectiveness of standard care over tight blood sugar control in the intensive care unit for pediatric cardiac surgery patients, which did precious little to improve...
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Heart Palpitations Can Now Be Precisely Diagnosed By An Electrode Vest
Special vests are being used by doctors in the UK to precisely diagnose abnormal heart rhythm. Cardiologists from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in west London said that the vests have enabled...
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Not Interrupting Warfarin Therapy During Cardiac Surgery Reduces Risk of...
A new study presented at the Heart Rhythm Society's 34th Annual Scientific Sessions and published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that not interrupting warfarin treatment at the time of...
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Blood Transfusion in Cardiac Surgery May Increase Risk of Infection
Risk of postoperative infection appears to increase when patients receive red blood cell (RBC) transfusion during or after cardiac surgery and greater attention to practices that limit red blood cell...
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Safe Alternative to Redo Cardiac Surgery is TAVI
Mainly in older patients with comorbidities, use of bioprosthetic heart valves has dramatically increased (from 18% in 1991 to 59% in 2003). This is due to the increased risk of bleeding complications...
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Chronic Pain Following Cardiac Surgery Can Be Reduced
In patients, the incidence of chronic pain following cardiac surgery can be reduced when the drug pregabalin is used before surgery and for 14 days post-surgery. This is according to a study presented...
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Researchers Validate Tool for Pain Assessment in Cardiac Surgery Patients
How do you measure the pain of a patient who can't communicate? A Rhode Island Hospital researcher studied an observational pain scale in cardiac surgery patients. And they found that the...
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Tooth Extraction Before a Cardiac Surgery may be Risky
Extraction of an infected tooth prior to cardiac surgery may risky, including the risk of death prior to surgery, reveals a study in the March 2014 issue of iThe Annals of Thoracic Surgery/i. Dental...
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Document Addresses Improving Quality for PCIs Performed Without On-Site...
The increasing number of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) being performed at low-volume centers without on-site cardiac surgery backup has driven the need for new quality and safety...
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Researchers Find Spike In Postoperative Cardiac Surgery Deaths
A team of researchers reports an expected spike in mortality six days after cardiac surgery, after analyzing a national database of hospital inpatient records. But it also reports a more surprising...
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Reintroducing Aprotinin in Cardiac Surgery is Risky for Patients
Health Canada and European Medicines Agency have decided to reintroduce the use of aprotinin after its withdrawal from the worldwide market in 2007. However, this puts the cardiac surgery patients at...
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