you ever had a chest pain or even something as little as a shortness of breath and just ignored it assuming it was nothing? Well just those two things can be a huge sign of one of the deadliest diseases in the world. This disease is called coronary artery disease. Most people with this disease don’t even know they have it which is interesting because it is reported as one of the most deadliest. This disease is not only important to me but it should be to everyone else because we could have it and not
DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY FOR MALIGNANT MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY INFARCTION INTRODUCTION Stroke represents a public health issue that is affecting both developed and developing countries. A lot money and time have been invested in attempts to improve outcome in these patients. The majority of patients are treated with medical management. There are however few patients in which an occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) can lead to progressive edema, mass effect and herniation of the brain
Coronary artery bypasses surgery, percutaneous angioplasty-stent, aspirin use, cholesterol-lowering therapies, and increased awareness of coronary artery disease prevention are the main strategies for the preventive treatment of SCD [166]. As the main etiology behind coronary artery ischemia is the plaque rupture, methods to prevent plaque rupture, plaque stabilization, decreasing plaque formation and searching risk markers for sudden plaque rupture should be discovered. The role of cholesterol in
Post-Operative Education to a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patient Aleks J. Perrin Remington College School of Nursing Post-Operative Education to a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patient One of the scariest medical diagnoses a patient can receive from a physician is, their heart is not functioning properly. A malfunctioning heart will eventually lead to death if correction of the issue is not attempted. The heart supplies the entire body with oxygenated blood but also needs its
Introduction Coronary artery disease (CAD) is caused by reduced blood flow in the coronary arteries. This subsequently leads to reduced oxygenation to the myocardium, resulting in transient ischemia or angina. CAD may cause permanent damage to myocardial cells or infarction. The left ventricle of the heart is most susceptible to CAD. The causes of CAD include atherosclerosis, congenital defects, coronary artery spasm, dissecting aneurysm, infectious vasculitis and syphilis. Atherosclerosis and vasospasm
1 Transform Domain Analysis of Common Carotid Artery Images using Multiwavelets for the Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Diseases R.Nandakumar 1 and K.B. Jayanthi 2 1Professor, Department of ECE, K.S.R.Institute for Engineering and Technology 2Professor, Department of ECE, K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology E-mail: nandhu.r79@gmail.com, jayanthikb@gmail.com ABSTRACT: According to the report given by World Health Organization, by 2015 almost 20 million people will die from cardiovascular diseases (CVD)
Introduction and background Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a surgical procedure performed on patients with coronary artery disease to improve their survival and quality of life. (1) It remains to be the gold standard treatment for patients requiring multivessel coronary revascularization despite recent advances in medical therapies and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI). (2) There are two forms of CABG. Traditionally, CABG is performed with a cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) machine
Study Design: Case-Control Study Title: Presence of increased stiffness of the common carotid artery and endothelial dysfunction in severely obese children: A prospective study Journal: The Lancet Numerous epidemiological studies infer that cardiovascular complications have a directly proportional relationship with obesity in children. The study I chose however, has gone deeper by observing arterial changes as well as its relationship to cardiovascular risk in children who are obese. One of the reasons
to pump blood throughout the entire body. The right atrium receives deoxygenated blood from the inferior and superior vena cava and sends it through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle which then sends the blood to the lungs via pulmonary artery (Texas Heart Institute, 2015). Once in the lungs, the blood becomes oxygenated, returns to the heart via pulmonary veins into the left atrium and goes through the mitral valve to the left ventricle (Texas Heart Institute, 2015). The left ventricle
patient who is recently postoperative a coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). It will also critique two professional research studies on this topic, and will answer three essential questions about each study. What are the results of the study? Are the results of the study valid? How are the findings clinically relevant to this patient? The patient, who will be referred to as Mr. Doe throughout this paper, is a 58 year old male with coronary artery disease. His medical history includes angina