MRI stands for magnetic resonance imaging. This term represents a(n): a. combining form b. acronym c. prefix d. suffix e. abbreviation 4. D.S. needed plastic surgery on her nose to repair the post fracture deformity. This procedure is called a(n): a. septoscope b. rhinoplasty c. ...
A stress test measures the ability of your heart to respond to your body's demand for more blood during stress (exercise or work). A continual measurement of the heart's electrical activity (a continual EKG or rhythm strip) is recorded along with the heart rate and blood pressure as a pe...
Improvement correlates in part with reductions in elevated baseline heart rates.48 A strategy of short-term inotropic therapy to facilitate initiation of β-blocker therapy is under investigation in patients otherwise too unstable. It is not known whether the benefits of β-blocker therapy would be ...
Dyspnea (for suspected HF) Acute decompensation Chronic HF (to help determine prognosis and disease severity) Elevated levels associated with ↑ short- and long-term adverse effects Level on discharge can help predict risk of: Hospital readmission Death Variations with subpopulations: Higher in wome...
It’s become like tenesmus, which is the medical term for the condition of dissatisfied defaecation. The instinct is blameless, the urge is strong, but the act feels somehow incomplete. Hillary deplored deplorables to her cost. It turns out the deplorable are not few and they live next ...
Due to the duration of patient contact and potential for long term interaction (>30 days and up to lifetime) with human tissue, the concerns for extractables/leachables are much different and raise significantly different concerns than extractables/leachables from a container/closure (contact of cont...
Acute heart failure : an acute reduction in cardiac function. Acute heart failure commonly presents with dyspnea , low room-air O2 saturation levels, and lower-extremity edema , which is more likely to be bilateral as opposed to unilateral. Elevated BNP and troponin levels are commonplace and ec...
More research is indispensable to evaluate the impact on patients with vascular diseases. It is required to develop procedures and workflows to confine the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on these patients’ state of health.Availability of data and materials The dataset used for this ...
Long-term data are needed to assess the durability of the effect of bariatric surgery in young patients with type 2 diabetes. Conclusion For adolescents with severe obesity and type 2 diabetes, medical management, even within the context of a well-resourced clinical trial, resulted in increasing ...
Ventricular assist devices may be used as a short-term solution, as bridge to recovery or decision for heart transplan- tation or as a permanent solution in highly selected patients [49]. Their indications, advantages, and limitations have been extensively described elsewhere [50•]. Transition...