"My cardiologist called me and he apologized if it was overstepping, but he asked for my permission to refer me to the Cleveland Clinic," the 27-year-old said. "He said that he hated to see a young person with a healthy heart going through cardiac issues because my lupus was not bein...
Multidisciplinary medical care involving ge- netic counselors and cardiologists, medical geneticists, or other experts in the field of cardiovascular genetics is ideal. Genetic counseling includes obtaining a careful and compre- hensive family history, education regarding disease transmis- sion, advice ...
Fragmentation of care between primary care clinicians, electrophysiologists, cardiologists, and HF specialists is detrimental. With respect to the HF patient with an ICD, the HF specialist has 3 general areas of responsibility, delineated as follows (106–113). It is a reasonable expectation that ...
The 4-free apps were evaluated for content validity, accessibility, usability, and feasibility by focus group interviews and a committee of experts: two nurses with PhDs, two computer technicians, and one cardiologist. They were asked to evaluate the four selected free apps by rating each app ...
The nurse and social worker met weekly with a study primary care and palliative care physician and as needed, a pulmonologist, and cardiologist. Usual care included an educational handout developed for the study that outlined self-care for COPD, ILD, or HF. Patients in both groups received ...
Carotid and cerebral angiography performed by cardiologists: cerebrovascular complications Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, 55 (2002), pp. 277-280 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar 91 M. Leonardi, P. Cenni, L. Simonetti, L. Raffi, S. Battaglia Retrospective study of complications arising during cerebral and...
I enjoyed science and knew that being a doctor would put me together with people. I really enjoyed everything I did between medical school and my residency — at first I thought I would be a cardiologist because I like procedures. But as a resident, you rotate through many specialities and...
That’s why this so important. I hope one day a device like the AliveCor Kardia Mobile ECG can alert me to my patient’s impending demise. That’s what I’m focused on and ultimately it’s going to be up to us as cardiologis...
Psychiatry lacks objective biological disease markers to guide diagnosis and treatment, creating a situation analogous to cardiologists relying on subjective descriptions of chest pain, without the aid of electrocardiograms, biochemical markers, or blood pressure cuffs to differentiate among syndromes or trac...
Bacha (2011) stated that fetal cardiac interventions performed by interventional cardiologists are currently in a clinical experimental phase. The 3 most frequent interventions are: aortic balloon valvuloplasty for critical aortic stenosis with a small left ventricle or with a normal size left ventricle...