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A Serious Diagnosis Lacking Common Symptoms
​BY JENNIFER TUONG; IVAN KHARCHENKO; JEAN LUC AGARD; & AHMED RAZIUDDIN, MDA 65-year-old man who had HIV well-controlled with highly active antiretroviral therapy, hypertension, sciatica, and restless leg syndrome presented to the emergency department with left leg pain. He also had had chemotherapy and radiation for anal cancer. The patient said the pain had started 45 minutes earlier when he was sitting on the toilet.He described the pain as sore in quality and 10/10 on the pain scale. He reported that it had started in his lower back and radiated to his left leg. He said he had had no trauma or weakness to the regi...
Source: The Case Files - May 28, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: research

Late Neurologic Events After Surgery for Atrial Fibrillation: Rare but Relevant ORIGINAL ARTICLES: ADULT CARDIAC
Conclusions After surgery for AF ablation, there is ongoing low risk of LNE even when the LAA is surgically excised. Further investigation should be pursued to clarify whether a difference exists with alternative elimination techniques and in patients in whom AF is successfully eliminated.
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - December 31, 2012 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Lee, R., Jivan, A., Kruse, J., McGee, E. C., Malaisrie, S. C., Bernstein, R., Lapin, B., Passman, R., Knight, B. P., McCarthy, P. M. Tags: Electrophysiology - arrhythmias ORIGINAL ARTICLES: ADULT CARDIAC Source Type: research

Myocardial protection technique structured on cardiac mass.
CONCLUSION: The study group in the aortic valve surgery that administered myocardial protection indexed for the left ventricular mass index and showed a statistically significant lower incidence for post-operative low cardiac output syndrome compared to the control group. PMID: 31749412 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Perfusion - November 20, 2019 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Condello I, Lancellotti P, Speziale G Tags: Perfusion Source Type: research

Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Thoracic Aortic Surgery
Conclusions Several risk factors contribute to the incidence of POAF after thoracic aortic surgery. We found that POAF significantly increased 30-day operative mortality (p < 0.0001). Our findings can be used to develop a risk stratification system for the prediction of POAF.
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - December 30, 2014 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Source Type: research