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Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner Obese patients may be at risk for acute kidney injury after heart surgery, but therapies ...
May 25, 2012 at 16:54 | Source: MedPage Today
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in individuals with chronic kidney disease. Newswise — Washington, DC (May 17, 2012) — One type of open heart surgery is likely safer than the other for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, according to a ...
May 17, 2012 at 20:59 | Source: Newswise
SPRINGFIELD — After assembling their stethoscopes and dissecting a few pig hearts, seventh-graders in Bethel School District science teacher Amber Jackson’s science class stepped into the world of open heart surgery Thursday at McKenzie-­Willamette ...
May 25, 2012 at 05:05 | Source: Register-Guard
Oxidative stress may put obese patients at increased risk of developing kidney damage after heart surgery, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). Effective antioxidants or ...
May 25, 2012 at 04:36 | Source: News-Medical.Net
A blind Native American, 69, is accusing staff at a local hospital of negligence and racism after he emerged from open heart surgery with scars all over his body which appeared to spell out KKK. Vernon Traversie, from Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in ...
May 23, 2012 at 14:11 | Source: Daily Mail
Plus, I had what is known as “A-Fib” (atrial fibrillation), that caused my heart to not only pound loudly, but seem to jump all over my chest. They said it’s a fairly common side-effect of the surgery. And to top it all off, they had special beds to ...
May 25, 2012 at 15:56 | Source: NBC Philadelphia
"I just like to be free, up in the air," Duyane Hoffman says. Hoffman spent more than 30 years of his life as a pilot, even flying during World War II. "Here's a 22 year old guy going across the ocean," Hoffman recalls. "How lucky can you get?" But last ...
May 24, 2012 at 22:24 | Source: Myfoxorl and O
Heart surgery can exhaust a patient. But when the patient is a 4-year-old girl, and the Coyotes’ Howler walks in the door, there’s only one thing to do. Howl. So that’s what Mesa resident Sidney Lewis did Wednesday, just about 24 hours after doctors ...
May 25, 2012 at 17:15 | Source: East Valley Tribune
(Ivanhoe Newswire )--Heart disease is not only the leading cause of death in the U.S, it’s also the top cause of death for people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). New research shows one type of open heart surgery is safer than another (in terms of both ...
May 18, 2012 at 01:31 | Source: Ivanhoe
World champion boxer MC Mary Kom was a relieved mother today as her ailing son underwent a ''successful'' heart surgery in Chandigarh. Mary Kom, who won the gold in the Asian Cup women boxing tournament in China on Monday, had to rush to Chandigarh as soon ...
May 16, 2012 at 13:44 | Source: Deccan Herald