What is refractory myocardial ischemia? What are the symptoms of valvular heart disease? What is benign hypertensive heart disease? Define cardiac overload What is another name for hypertensive heart disease? What is the pathophysiology of rheumatic heart disease?
(Anatomy) a natural hole, esp one in a bone through which nerves and blood vessels pass. [C17: from Latin, from forāre to bore, pierce] foraminal adj.What does Foraminal mean in medical terms?The foramina are bony passageways located between the vertebrae in the spine. Their primary pu...
In terms of financial toxicities, there are no free rides, right? When we add a doublet, we add double — or maybe more or less — the cost upfront. Does everybody need that? How do you think about that in the context of these agents that hopefully will become available in the ...
What if we are wrong?Such a simple question, but one that seems all but absent in modern medicine. Patients, particularly women, routinely present with chronic, treatment refractory, undiagnosed or misdiagnosed conditions. More often than not, the persistence of the symptoms is disregarded as bein...
Refractory cardiac arrestAdvanced Life SupportECMOCPRMANAGEMENTTIMEtext>BackgroundExtracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) is part of the 2015 ERC-ALS (European Resuscitation Council-Advanced Life Support) guidelines. However, with an increasing use of this therapeutic option for patients in ...
Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and what happens to a culture when its attitude about how to memorialize the dead undergoes a rev
Refractive errors. Refractory errors causeblurred vision. This group of disorders includedmyopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), and astigmatism (a disorder of the cornea's shape that impairs vision). Strabismus (crossed eyes). The two eyes do not look in the same direction. This...
EMG-biofeedback training in fibromyalgia syndrome. J Rheumatol. 1987;14820- 825Google Scholar 102. Haanen HCMHoenderdos HTWvan Romunde LKJ et al. Controlled trial of hypnotherapy in the treatment of refractory fibromyalgia. J Rheumatol. 1991;1872- 75Google Scholar 103. Deluze CBosia LZirbs A...
Nonetheless, seizures involve a “refractory period” that makes further seizures less likely for some time period, so odds are good that I can feel more secure while I recover from this event, which usually takes two weeks or so to get my brain feeling closer to “normal”. Even so, my...
in terms of volume reduction (33). A randomised phase III “Step-Up” trial is currently underway (34), recruiting 69 patients with heterogeneous bilateral upper lobe emphysema randomised 2:1 to either sequential bilateral upper lobe BTVA 3 months apart or best medical therapy. The treatment ...