Newborns with complex congenital heart defects (CHD) and pulmonary overcirculation often need treatment as soon as possible. Unfortunately, some of these children are not in good enough health to withstand surgery.
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An estimated 3 million patients visit emergency departments each year with acute chest pain and mildly elevated troponin levels. High levels of troponin, a protein, occur when the heart muscle is damaged from a heart attack. ...
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A long-term analysis designed by Christian Gerges and Irene Lang at the Department of Medicine II of the University Hospital Vienna and MedUni Vienna indicates that one third of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Doctors are zapping the heart with radiation normally reserved for cancer, a bid to better treat people with life-threatening irregular heartbeats who've exhausted other options.
Apr 27, 2023
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Despite vastly different health care systems, low-income patients across six different countries have mortality rates 10 to 20 percent greater than their high-income peers, according to a new study led by researchers from ...
Apr 4, 2023
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Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) recently found that a device used to measure oxygen levels might be overestimating those levels in children of different races, which could lead to inaccurate readings. ...
Mar 21, 2023
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Findings from a new study published in The Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, involving a collaborative effort between researchers at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, Vanderbilt, and Veteran's Affairs ...
Jan 19, 2023
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To diagnose aortic stenosis in a patient, a method known as Doppler echocardiography is used but has previously been shown to overestimate the values of pressure drop across aortic valves.
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