Ebstein ’ s anomaly and pregnancy
Ebstein’s anomaly and pregnancy
Ebstein’s anomaly of tricuspid valve was first described by Wilhelm Ebstein in 1866 [1]. It is characterized by distal displacement of the septal and posterior leaflets of tricuspid valve. Anterior leaflet is elongated and sail like. A portion of the right ventricle is ‘atrialized’ due to the distal displacement of the tricuspid valve. Right atrium is often grossly dilated. Right to left shunting occurs across a patent foramen ovale producing cyanosis of variable extent. Ebstein’s anomaly is one of the cyanotic congenital heart diseases in which survival to adul...
Source: Cardiophile MD - May 14, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
China ’s High‐Speed Debt Trap
Randal O'TooleEarlier today, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphytweeted:You don ' t have to look hard to figure out why China is gaining on us so rapidly.Beijing to Shanghai- distance: 800 miles- train time: 4.3 hoursBoston to DC- distance: 440 miles- train time: 7 hours— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT)May 11, 2021Maybe he should look a little harder at the figures.First:“Boston to DC– Airline time: 1.6 hours”The reason high ‐speed rail never caught on in the United States is because we had jet airliners before Japan even started building its first bullet train. Why should we worry that a train from Beijin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 11, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Randal O ' Toole Source Type: blogs
What the United States Wants from Japan in Taiwan
If a Taiwan conflict breaks out, what might the United States request of Japan? For the U.S.-Japan alliance, the answer is critical if the countries want to translate expressions of support into actual planning and preparation. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - May 10, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Jeffrey W. Hornung Source Type: blogs
Your New Life In 2021 (Mid-Post COVID)
At the beginning of the pandemic, we wrote a lot about how the pandemic should and could be handled. In addition to providing real-world advice on what technology can do to support us (like Digital Health Apps To Use During Quarantine or The State of A.I. in the Fight Against COVID-19), we often provided forecasts (When And How Will COVID End?) and predictions about the management and the potential outcome of the epidemic (Will There Be A Second Wave). We even created an entire handbook to give away for free!
After drawing attention to the privacy and data protection issues raised by the pandemic (we issued a guide for ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 6, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast 3D Printing science telemedicine vaccination contact tracing cdc pfizer mask mRNA J&J herd immunity Uğur Şahin Karl Schroeder Source Type: blogs
We Are All Designers
By KIM BELLARD
Raise your hand if you had to go through the Hunger Games labyrinth to score a COVID-19 vaccine earlier this year – figuring out which phone number(s)/website(s) to try, navigating it, answering all the questions, searching for available appointments within reasonable distances, and, usually, having to try all over again. Or, raise your hand if you’ve had trouble figuring out how to use an Electronic Health Record (EHR) or an associated Patient Portal.
Maybe you thought it was you. Maybe you thought you weren’t tech-savvy enough. But, a trio of usability experts reassure u...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Design healthcare design Kim Bellard Usability UX Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 3rd 2021
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Source: Fight Aging! - May 2, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Nuclear Ban Treaty Offers Rare Chance for Japan
As the only country to suffer the horrors of wartime atomic bombings, one would assume Japan would eagerly sign any treaty to ban such weapons. Why hasn ' t Japan signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which took effect in January 2021? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - April 30, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Sayuri Romei Source Type: blogs
A Small Human Study of Short Term Nicotinamide Mononucleotide Supplementation
Declining levels of NAD+ in cells is one of the proximate causes of loss of mitochondrial function with age. A number of approaches to increasing levels of NAD+ in cells involve using supplements that are derived from vitamin B3. Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) is one of these, but has to date far less published human evidence for its effects than is the case for nicotinamide riboside (NR), making the small study noted here interesting. In general, the evidence for vitamin B3 derived compounds to increase NAD+ in older people is good, while the evidence for that increase to then produce benefits to health is mixed at bes...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 29, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Top 20 Digital Health Trends For The Near Future: A New E-Book
It almost became a tradition at The Medical Futurist to publish at the beginning of every year an e-book about digital health trends that are worth keeping an eye on for that particular year. These e-books would contain a list of forecasts and the respective developments that led us to formulating that trend. While not all forecasts came to fruition (Google did not launch a new line of fitness trackers), others were more accurate (developments towards at-home lab tests did pick up steam). The aim of every trend was nevertheless to help readers get a bigger picture regarding the direction that the field was heading towards ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy Telemed Source Type: blogs
Let ’s welcome Mental Health Month (May) by appreciating our beautiful brains
Self Reflected was created over two years by a team that included neuroscientists, engineers, physicists, and students, and is a hyperdetailed representation of 500,000 neurons in a sagittal slice. Credit: Greg Dunn and Brian Edwards.
Between Thought and Expression (Cerebrum):
Greg Dunn was on his way to a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania when he realized that bringing the brain’s beauty to life was a more suitable role for him than lab work. He started in ink, inspired by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean paintings and the similarities he found in the microscopic world of neurons and the macroscopic w...
Source: SharpBrains - April 28, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning beauty Mental Health Month Microetchings neuro art neuroimaging Neurons neuroscience Neurotechnology Source Type: blogs
Basic principles of rotablation
Rotablation or rotational atherectomy uses a diamond coated burr to debulk complex atherosclerotic plaques which are difficult to treat with conventional balloon angioplasty. The physical principle of rotablation is differential cutting. The advancing rotablator burr selectively cuts inelastic material while elastic tissue deflects away from the burr. As 95% of the particles generated by rotablation are less than 5 microns in diameter, they are removed from the body by the reticuloendothelial system [1]. Thus the basic principle of rotablation is quite different from balloon dilatation in which there is displacement of a...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 28, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Coronary Interventions Source Type: blogs
Suga-Biden Summit: Rekindling Confidence in the U.S.-Japan Alliance
The April 16 summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga signaled a substantial deepening in the U.S.-Japan alliance. It highlighted important new areas of cooperation and a concrete agenda for U.S.-Japan relations. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - April 26, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Sayuri Romei; Scott W. Harold Source Type: blogs
Fontan Circulation
Fontan repair of tricuspid atresia was initiated in late 1960s. Francis Fontan et al reported that surgical repair was carried out in three patients with tricuspid atresia of which two were successful [1]. Inferior venacaval blood was directed to the left lung and the right pulmonary artery received the superior venacaval blood through a cavopulmonary anastomosis. They mentioned that the size of the pulmonary arteries must be large enough and at sufficiently low pressure to allow flow in a cavopulmonary anastomosis.
The first step was a Glenn procedure in which distal end of right pulmonary artery was anastomosed to the ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 20, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiac Surgery Source Type: blogs
' Joe-Yoshi' Spirit Buoys Japan-U.S. Alliance in Turbulent Seas
President Biden and Prime Minister Suga appear to have established a warm, personal rapport while communicating a clear vision of the importance of working together to end the pandemic, combat climate change, preserve a free and open Indo-Pacific, and defend democracy. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - April 20, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Scott W. Harold Source Type: blogs
Corporate Taxes: Rates Down, Revenues Up
Chris EdwardsU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recentlycomplained about a“30-year race to the bottom on corporate tax rates,” and is pushing for a higher U.S. rate and a global minimum rate. Yellenwants to make sure that corporate taxes “raise sufficient revenue to invest in essential public goods and respond to crises.” EconomistGabriel Zucmanapproved of the proposed tax hike, saying corporations should “pay more in taxes, instead of them paying less and less. "Zucman ’s claim about “less and less” is incorrect when looking across the major economies in recent decades. TheNew York Times charts the OECD ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 15, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
