Diagnostic accuracy is high in the emergency department, with about 5.7 percent of patients misdiagnosed, according to a report published Dec. 15 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Jan 20, 2024
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They have been called the "time bomb" of cardiology—ascending aortic aneurysms.
Jun 25, 2019
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A new tool to identify potentially fatal aneurysms in patients with headaches who seem otherwise well will help emergency departments to identify high-risk patients, improve survival rates and cut out unnecessary imaging, ...
Nov 13, 2017
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The Neurocritical Care Society is releasing a comprehensive set of guidelines this week to guide physicians and hospitals on how to optimally care for patient's ruptured brain aneurysms. One of the strongest recommendations ...
Sep 19, 2011
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The aorta, also known as the main artery, is now categorized as an independent human organ. This has now been established in the guidelines for aortic surgical treatments of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery ...
Feb 28, 2024
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Researchers are working to determine why the aortic valve doesn't form correctly in patients with the most common congenital heart defect: bicuspid aortic valve.
May 25, 2017
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Researchers have identified a safer, more cost effective way to provide anesthesia for patients undergoing endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm – a common, often asymptomatic condition that, if not found ...
Oct 27, 2011
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If you have hay fever, you've probably been sneezing a lot lately.
Oct 26, 2023
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With advances in antiretroviral therapy (ART), outcomes for adults living with human immunodeficiency virus (ALWH) have largely improved, drastically decreasing the risk of death from opportunistic infections. However, as ...
Apr 26, 2023
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(HealthDay)—New treatments mean aneurysms are no longer an automatic death sentence, specialists say.
Apr 15, 2019
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