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Mashup Score: 5Multidisciplinary team management of carcinoid heart disease - 3 day(s) ago
Carcinoid heart disease (CHD) is a consequence of valvular fibrosis triggered by vasoactive substances released from neuroendocrine tumours, classically in those with metastatic disease and resulting in tricuspid and pulmonary valve failure. CHD affects one in five patients who have carcinoid syndrome (CS). Valve leaflets become thickened, retracted and immobile, resulting most often in regurgitation that causes right ventricular dilatation and ultimately, right heart failure. The development of CHD heralds a significantly worse prognosis than those patients with CS who do not develop valvular disease. Diagnosis requires a low threshold of suspicion in all patients with CS, since symptoms occur late in the disease process and clinical signs are difficult to elicit. As a result, routine screening is recommended using the biomarker, N-terminal pro-natriuretic peptide, and regular echocardiography is then required for diagnosis and follow-up. There is no direct medical therapy for CHD, bu
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Mashup Score: 45Medicine is designed for righthanded people - 3 day(s) ago
Chloe Milton describes the challenges of being left handed in clinical environments that are designed for righthanded use The surgeon glared at me. When I asked what I’d done wrong they replied that they found it “scary” that I’d used the “wrong” hand to cut sutures when assisting in theatre. What’s scary to me is how easily the challenges faced by lefthanded trainees are dismissed—an experience I’ve had not only in surgery but across all medical specialties. Medicine needs to move away from the idea of “right” and “wrong” hands, so that lefthanded students learning examination and surgical skills are properly supported in caring for patients. From the beginning of my first year of medical school I noticed that the whole clinical environment was designed for righthanded use. Tradition dictates that you should stand on the right side of a patient when examining them, making it difficult—if not impossible—to use your left hand to do so. Moreover, the equipment used in clinical skills ses
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Mashup Score: 43Anderson–Fabry disease management: role of the cardiologist - 7 day(s) ago
Abstract. Anderson–Fabry disease (AFD) is a lysosomal storage disorder characterized by glycolipid accumulation in cardiac cells, associated with a peculia
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BACKGROUND: There is ambiguity whether frail patients with atrial fibrillation managed with vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) should be switched to a non–vitamin K oral anticoagulant (NOAC). METHODS: We c
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Mashup Score: 4Ischemic myocardial contracture ("stone heart"). A complication of cardiac surgery - PubMed - 8 day(s) ago
Stone heart or ischemic myocardial contracture is a complication of cardiopulmonary bypass characterized by contracture of the myocardium and inability to obtain cardiac output on manual massage. Stone heart has occurred only during aortic valve replacement and/or coronary artery bypass procedures. …
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British Indian ophthalmologist, Dr Twishaa Sheth, has co-written a guide on detecting eye problems with the well-known ‘Made Easy’ series with co-author Dr Mich
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Mashup Score: 0Vixen Screech - What Fox Screams (Mating Calls) Sound Like - 24 day(s) ago
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE & LIKE! Thank you!Here’s a video showing a bunch of foxes who moved under my shed in the backyard, and started screaming at each other all …
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Mashup Score: 24Cardiovascular disease and risk in COPD: a state of the art review - 1 month(s) ago
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) commonly co-exist. Outcomes of people living with both conditions are poor in terms of symptom burden, receiving evide…
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Mashup Score: 3Congenital Heart Defects and Risk of Epilepsy - 1 month(s) ago
From Depart ment of Clinical Epidemiology (M.Z.L., M.S.O.) and Center for Rare Diseases, Department of Pediatrics (J.R.O.), Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark; Heart Institute (N.L.M.) and Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology (J.G.W.), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH (N.L.M., J.G.W.); Heart Center at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Mashup Score: 1‘I know someone who played noughts and crosses on one’: meet the top surgeon who burnt his initials on a patient’s liver | Doctors | The Guardian - 1 month(s) ago
Simon Bramhall was a high-flying transplant specialist who risked it all – and lost his career. Why did he do it?
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