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Health Highlights: Sept. 9, 2022 ​
Artificial sweeteners may harm the heart. Sugar substitutes are a popular way to try to keep slim, but French research suggests they may also increase your risk for a heart attack or stroke. Read more CT lung cancer screening catches more tumors...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Predicting the survivals and favorable neurologic outcomes after targeted temperature management by artificial neural networks
CONCLUSIONS: The ANN-based models achieved good performance to predict the survival and favorable neurologic outcomes after TTM. The models proposed have clinical value to assist in decision-making.PMID:34330620 | DOI:10.1016/j.jfma.2021.07.004
Source: J Formos Med Assoc - July 31, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wei-Ting Chiu Chen-Chih Chung Chien-Hua Huang Yu-San Chien Chih-Hsin Hsu Cheng-Hsueh Wu Chen-Hsu Wang Hung-Wen Chiu Lung Chan Source Type: research

Lung Transplantation and the Routine Use of Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Median Sternotomy: Experience at the Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute.
CONCLUSION: Patients' early outcomes appear to have improved with the use of CPB and median sternotomy; however, 3-year survival is similar to the non-CPB group. Technical benefits of CPB with median sternotomy include decreased warm ischemia time during graft implantation, controlled hemodynamics and reperfusion, avoidance of single-lung ventilation of a freshly implanted graft, and the option to open the left atrium for implantation of a venous cuff without using a clamp. The surgical exposure facilitated by CPB with median sternotomy for lung transplantation appears to be a safe and feasible approach for lung transplant...
Source: Ochsner Journal - March 25, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Ochsner J Source Type: research

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation for Treatment of Aortic Valve Stenosis: A Health Technology Assessment.
CONCLUSIONS: Moderate quality evidence showed that TAVI and SAVR had similar mortality rates in patients who were eligible for surgery. Information about quality of life showed similar results for TAVI and SAVR in the first year, but was based on low quality evidence. Moderate quality evidence also showed that TAVI was associated with higher rates of adverse events than SAVR. In patients who were not suitable candidates for surgery, moderate quality evidence showed that TAVI improved survival compared with balloon aortic valvuloplasty. When TAVI was compared with SAVR, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was $51,988 p...
Source: Ontario Health Technology Assessment Series - December 21, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Ont Health Technol Assess Ser Source Type: research

Persistent hypoxemia and platypnea-orthodeoxia after left single-lung transplantation: a case report
Conclusions Our case demonstrates that an open patent foramen ovale leading to massive right-to-left shunting is a possible complication after lung transplant, with significant morbidity, and that it can be treated successfully using a percutaneously placed occlusion device. Through this case report, we aim to improve pre-transplant procedures by demonstrating that a bubble contrast transesophageal echocardiogram can be performed pre-operatively to detect a patent foramen ovale.
Source: Journal of Medical Case Reports - June 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research