Intriguing concepts in cardiology :Anemic heart ! Is it cardiac failure or cardiac success ?
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Dr. Sangareddi V.Posted
Thu 27 May 2010 10:06am
of us are made to believe so, by meager speculation !
In what way anemia is linked to heart failure?
The answer is explicit in the definition of cardiac failure . There are two components to cardiac failure
It is the inability or reduced capacity to pump that affect the tissue oxygenation.
Or able to do so only at the cost of elevated
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Risk of sudden cardiac death greatest within 30 days of heart attack
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Dr. J. Mariano Anto Bruno M.Posted
Mon 02 Feb 2009 11:40pm
The risk of sudden cardiac death following a heart attack has dropped by more than 40% in the last 25 years, however new research suggests that heart attack patients are still at heightened risk of sudden cardiac death within the first 30 days after their heart attack.
The study of 2997 heart attack patients, of which 284 (24%) died from sudden
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Larry King Cardiac Foundation: Help Save a Heart a Day
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Keep Your Heart HealthyPosted
Sat 17 Apr 2010 12:00am
I recently discovered a special heart disease foundation which has the noble cause of providing heart surgery for people without insurance. And the man that headlines it all is very well known: Larry King.
King has had his own set of heart troubles over the years. He set up the Larry King Cardiac Foundation to help save
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Cardiac Arrest vs Heart Attack
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Romelette L.Posted
Sat 27 Jun 2009 9:18pm
The death of Michael Jackson and the cause of his death has been all over the internet. According to earlier reports it was cardiac arrest. And so there have been a discussion as to the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest. The truth is, when I heard that MJ has lupus and that he suffered from cardiac arrest, I remembered
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Too Few Heart Patients Go to Cardiac Rehab
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HealthFinderPosted
Mon 14 Feb 2011 12:00pm
) -- Heart disease patients are far more likely to undergo cardiac rehabilitation if they are given an automatic referral after discussing the matter with their doctor, a new study finds.
Evidence shows that cardiac rehabilitation reduces illness and death by about 25 percent over one to two years. However, 70 percent to 80 percent of eligible heart
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Less charted areas of the heart : The cardiac interstitium
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Dr. Sangareddi V.Posted
Sun 06 Sep 2009 10:21pm
in terminal state.
What is the difference between myocyterelaxtion and cardiac relaxation ?
It is now recognised , cardiac interstitium has a big role in relaxation .
Cardiac... and elasticity is vital for cardiac chamber to reach it’s pre contractile state . It is now recognised the rate of LV relaxation (Negative dp / dt ) is directly proportional
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Heart rate turbulence detects cardiac death risk in healthy people
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Dr. John Z.Posted
Mon 28 Feb 2011 12:00am
of cardiac death, especially for people with no conventional markers of cardiovascular disease, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis... are always searching for better ways to identify patients at risk of cardiac death.
The new research indicates that an abnormal response to an early beat in the left ventricle
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