Cardiac tumours
Cardiac tumours are most often secondaries from malignancies of breast, lung or malignant melanoma. Primary tumours of the heart are most often benign, of which about half are myxomas. Malignant primary tumours of the heart contribute to about a quarter of the primary cardiac tumours. The commonest primary malignant tumour of the heart would be a sarcoma [1]. Cardiac tumours may present with cardiovascular or constitutional symptoms. Sometimes they are incidentally detected on echocardiography or other imaging modalities.
Left atrial myxoma on echocardiogram
Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging can give addi...
Source: Cardiophile MD - August 25, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Terminally Ill Adults, Doctor File Notice of Appeal of Ruling Voiding California Medical Aid-in-Dying Law
Matt FairchildTwo terminally adults and a physician in California
today filed a notice of
appeal of
a lower court’s decisions in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the California End of Life
Option Act.
The decisions include the rejection on Wednesday of a motion filed
by a
physician and two terminally ill adults urging the judge to “vacate” (i.e.,
cancel) his judgment last week invalidating the law.
The group
requests state Attorney General Xavier Becerra to take a position on Compassion
& Choices’ legal opinion that its notice of appeal with the 4th District
Circuit of Appeal triggers an auto...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 2, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
CA Court Rejects Group ’s Motion to Vacate Its Ruling Voiding Medical Aid-in-Dying Law Court to Hold Hearing on June 29 to Consider Separate Vacate Motion by Attorney General
A Riverside Superior Court rejected a motion filed
by Compassion & Choices on behalf of a physician and two terminally ill adults urging
the judge to “vacate” (i.e., cancel) his judgment last week invalidating the End of Life
Option Act.
However, the court judge, Daniel A. Ottolia, scheduled a hearing on
June 29 to
consider a separate motion by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to
vacate the judgment.
Similar to laws
in six other states and Washington, D.C., the California law gives mentally
capable, terminally ill adults with six months or less to live the option to
request prescription medica...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 31, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
A Year in Review: FDA 2015 New Drug Approvals
The approval of first-of-a-kind drugs rose last year to forty-one, resulting in the highest level of newly approved U.S. drugs in nineteen years. The total number of new drugs approved last year was even higher at sixty-nine. The rising figures reflect an industry-wide desire to research and develop drugs for rare and hard-to-treat diseases.
The newly approved drugs serve to advance medical care and the health of patients suffering from many ailments, including various forms of cancer, heart failure, and cystic fibrosis. Additionally, more than 40% of the new therapies were approved for treatment of rare or "orphan" dise...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Morcellation of Fibroids To Be Eliminated by Boston Hospitals
Morcellation of fibroids is commonly done during laparoscopic hysterectomy to aid in removal of a large amount of tissue through a small surgical port in the abdomen.
Unfortunately, this procedure has recently been implicated in the development of widespread intra-abdominal cancer in two women recently in Boston. In response, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston are banning the procedure in fibroid removal surgeries.
Dr. Amy Reed is one patient who is now battling stage IV cancer after the procedure spread leiomyosarcoma cells contained within a fibroid throughout her abdomen.
The...
Source: Inside Surgery - March 29, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Cancer ObGyn Surgery Oncology Amy Reed Brighams and Womens fibroids laparoscopic hysterectomy leiomyosarcoma MGH morcellation Source Type: blogs
