• Filter By:
• Specialty
• Source
• Condition
• Cancer
• Infectious Disease
• Drug
• Training
• Management
• Procedure
• Therapy
• Vaccine
• Nutrition
• Country

Bringing WISDOM to Breast Cancer Care
Dr. Laura Esserman answers the door of her bright yellow Victorian home in San Francisco’s Ashbury neighborhood with a phone at her ear. She’s wrapping up one of several meetings that day with her research team at University of California, San Francisco, where she heads the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. She motions me in and reseats herself at a makeshift home office desk in her living room, sandwiched between a grand piano and set of enormous windows overlooking her front yard’s flower garden. It’s her remote base of operations when she’s not seeing patients or operating at the hospita...
Source: TIME: Health - October 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Postoperative malignant hyperthermia confirmed by calcium-induced calcium release rate after breast cancer surgery, in which prompt recognition and immediate dantrolene administration were life-saving: a case report
ConclusionsThe occurrence of MH can be life-threatening, but its frequency is very low, and genetic testing and muscle biopsy are required to confirm the diagnosis. On retrospective evaluation using the malignant hyperthermia scale, the present case was almost certainly that of a patient with MH. Prompt recognition and immediate treatment with dantrolene administration and body cooling effectively reversed a potentially fatal syndrome. This was hence a valuable case of a patient with postoperative MH that led to a confirmed diagnosis by CICR.
Source: Journal of Medical Case Reports - April 17, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

Clinicians cause variation in radiation doses from CT scans
Experts call for more consistency in radiation doses Related items fromOnMedica Radiation exposure may increase risk of stroke and heart disease Breast cancers overdiagnosed Rise in medical radiation incidents Breast screening increases chance of mastectomy Benefits of breast screening are overestimated, research suggests
Source: OnMedica Latest News - January 3, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Innominate Artery Through Ministernotomy With Anatomic Tunneling for Critical Ischemia of the Left Upper Extremity
The patient is a 58-year-old woman with a history of left-sided mastectomy and axillary node dissection for cancer. She developed occlusive disease requiring extensive stenting of the left subclavian-axillary artery and subsequent carotid to proximal brachial artery prosthetic bypass, complicated by stroke. She was referred for critical ischemia of the left upper extremity and computed tomography angiography showing occlusion of the bypass with reconstitution of the proximal brachial artery.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - August 22, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Alexandra J. Sharp, Adeola T. Odugbesi, Jeanette Man, Anna E. Marjan, Mel J. Sharafuddin Tags: Abstract from the 2018 Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society Annual Meeting Source Type: research

Acute aortic occlusion in a patient without risk factors
A 94-year-old female with a history of ischemic stroke, mild right hemiparesis, vascular dementia, breast cancer with right mastectomy, colon cancer resulting in colectomy, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension presented to the emergency department (ED) with bilateral leg pain. Patient had no smoking history, and her medications included Donepezil, Aspirin, Citalopram, Losartan, and Pantoprazole.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - March 28, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Trina Stoneham, Erin L. Simon Source Type: research

Health inequalities: an analysis of hospitalizations with respect to migrant status, gender and geographical area
Conclusions: The results of this study may reflect inequalities in the quality of health care, in particular in primary and secondary prevention, access to specialized care and inappropriateness, due to migrant status and gender. Also, differences between macro-areas suggest heterogeneities in the integration policies and the promotion of immigrants’ health. Research should be endorsed in this field in order to further describe inequalities and their reasons and in the light of supporting policies development.
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - February 7, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Chiara de WaureStefania BrunoGiuseppe FuriaLuca Di SciulloSerena CarovillanoMaria SpecchiaSalvatore GeraciWalter Ricciardi Source Type: research

Totally one-sided: painless unilateral proptosis
An 88-year-old woman’s startling ophthalmologic symptoms were wrongly attributed to infection during an outpatient examination. When treatment offered no improvement, she presented to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she reported progressive left eye swelling of 2 weeks’ duration. Seven years earlier, she had undergone mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation for breast cancer. Her medical history was also significant for a prior stroke, hypertension, and dementia.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - January 5, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Bharati Kochar, Shannon J.C. Shan, Gobind Anand, S. James Zinreich, Allan C. Gelber Source Type: research

Drugs to be offered to women at high risk of breast cancer
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has today released updated guidelines on the care of women who are at increased risk of breast cancer due to their family history. One of the main changes to the original guidance from 2004 is that NICE now recommends drug treatment with tamoxifen or raloxifene to reduce risk of breast cancer in a specific group of women who are at high risk of breast cancer and have not had the disease. They say that these treatments could help prevent breast cancer in about 488,000 women aged 35 years and older. The updated guideline has also made changes to the recommende...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Medical practice QA articles Source Type: news