PBL question help - hypertension, headaches and NSAIDs?
Forum: Medicine
Posted By: Kurraiyo
Post Time: 26-03-2015 at 02:15 (Source: The Student Room)
Source: The Student Room - March 26, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: forums
Pulmonary Hypertension
Anyone diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension after lung transplant? I just had a routine echocardiogram and my cardiologist said I have mild pulmonary hypertension, which he does not think needs to be treated at this point. Curious to know if this is common after transplant. I understand that it is common in end stage CF, so I most probably had it at that point, but supposedly a lung transplant would fix that. Any input would be appreciated. (Source: Cystic Fibrosis Transplants Forum)
Source: Cystic Fibrosis Transplants Forum - March 17, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: CFfisherman Tags: Transplants Source Type: forums
A large cohort study suggests that aspirin prophylaxis only benefits people with a prior cardiovascular event
Conclusions
In patients with stable coronary artery disease and hypertension, aspirin use was associated with reduced risk for adverse cardiovascular outcomes among those with prior ischemic events. Among patients with no prior ischemic events, aspirin use was not associated with a reduction in risk.
COMMENT: The determining the risk/benefit ratio of prophylactic aspirin use for the prevention of cardiovascular events has become a complicated issue. The current recommendations from the CDC http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/aspirin.htm recommend aspirin prophylaxis in those with prior cardiovascular events. Th...
Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - March 2, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: diabetesMD Source Type: forums
Resistant hypertension: A simple solution
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Source: BMJ Comments - January 26, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: forums
Re: A collapse with hypertension and hypokalaemia
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Source: BMJ Comments - January 6, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: forums
chronic atrial fib
i have a case female incidentally discovered her chronic atrial fib(normal lab value and echo) as a screen with pasthistory of hypertension on betablocker and ccb with occasionally lower limb oedema most likely adverse effect of ccb the questions are 1st shoud she take anticoagulation
2nd is betablocker good for her blood pressure and chronic atrial fib as she has 61 old
3rd what is the alternative therpay for her essentail hypertension
thank u (Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology)
Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - September 1, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: amr0100 Source Type: forums
can we save a million hearts?
medscape has this article this week and the title refers to saving a million lives by better control of cardiovascular risk factors particuarly the control of hypertension.
Do you agree?
You can read the article here
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/829193?nlid=63163_2566&src=wnl_edit_medp_card&uac=183832CK&spon=2
sadian (Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology)
Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - August 13, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: sadian Source Type: forums
our mind inside the heart not the brain
first .. all of us know the the heart has it's automaticity through A_S node , and can completely act and beat without any CNS connection for some period .
that means that the initial impluse is generated form the heart itself
second .. I think that when we recieve a very bad news our response initiat from the heart not brain
like the spinal reflex .. when we touch a candle our muscle contracts by an order from the spinal cord not the brain .. then the brain realize that we touched a hot thing afterall .
so this is the heart .. we recieve a bad news .. our heart starts to response ( e.g. Tachycardi...
Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - July 26, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: meggz Source Type: forums
the lifetime risk of hypertension
this study has a cohort size of 1.25 million people - an impressive feat in itself
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60685-1/fulltext
this is one of the figures from the paper showing years of life lost per cardiac diagnosis - it seems that the blood pressure ranges to be in are 90-114mmhg ofr systolic and 60-74mmHg of the diastolic - is this surprising? (Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology)
Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - June 22, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: sadian Source Type: forums
Various Factors of Infertility
There many Factors of Infertility.
1. bleed extremely heavily or lightly
2. either underweight or overweight
3. three successive miscarriages
4. you or your partner have any chronic illnesses, like diabetes, thyroid problems, or hypertension
5. you or your partner smoke or drink alcohol : smoking and drinking while trying to get pregnant is also a problem.
6. you or your partner have a history of STDs (Source: Cystic Fibrosis Pregnancy Forum)
Source: Cystic Fibrosis Pregnancy Forum - June 17, 2014 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: alessialea750 Tags: Pregnancy Source Type: forums
hypertension treatment saves 100000
the lance have just published a paper suggesting that improved treatment of blood pressure in England between 1994 and 2011 has saved 100 000 events (myocardial infarcts , strokes and deaths) with 37% of people having good blood pressure control versus 11% at the beginning of the study period. This period overlaps with the National Service framework for coronary disease . Do these changes result from better heart health generally or is this hypertension specific?
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60688-7/abstract (Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology)
Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - May 30, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: sadian Source Type: forums
Do you think hypertension is a stress related disorder?
A common wisdom is that stress elevates the blood pressure. Whether hypertension is a stress-induced disorder or not is a question that haunts many people. I wonder after the advances in genetics is the hypothesis that hypertension is related to type A personality, and stress-induced still valid or not. (Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology)
Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - May 20, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Sidhom Source Type: forums
why do you get target organ damage in hypertension?
Forum: Current Medical Students and Doctors
Posted By: asaaal
Post Time: 15-05-2014 at 22:04 (Source: The Student Room)
Source: The Student Room - May 16, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: forums
Clinical question of the week: is the era of 'interventional' treatment of resistant hypertension over?
This week's question of the week comes from our cardiology clinical champion, Sadia Khan
A recent editorial in the BMJ discussed the outcome of Symplicity HTN-3, the world's first blinded randomised controlled trial of renel denervation in hypertension. The trial failed to meets its targeted reduction in blood pressure and questions are now being asked about the design of the trial.
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Source: Doc2Doc BMJ Cardiology - March 21, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: AnneG Source Type: forums
What is high blood pressure (hypertension)?
Forum: Health
Posted By: marie4u
Post Time: 01-03-2014 at 12:34 (Source: The Student Room)
Source: The Student Room - March 1, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: forums
