Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Unraveling Its Impact On Heart And Lungs
Conclusion
Navigating the complexities of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) might seem daunting. However, with the right knowledge and proactive approach, it’s possible to manage the condition and maintain a good quality of life.
PAH, a unique type of high blood pressure affecting the arteries in the lungs, can put extra strain on the heart. Over time, this can lead to heart failure. The condition’s root cause may vary, from genetic factors to other health issues like heart defects, liver disease, or autoimmune diseases. Remember, sometimes the cause remains unknown, resulting in idiopathic pulmonary ...
Source: The EMT Spot - July 19, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
Alpha-Blockers For High Blood Pressure: Types, Side Effects, Drug Interactions
Conclusion
To summarize, the treatment of hypertension is a critical aspect of healthcare due to its significant impact on cardiovascular health.
While natural supplements and lifestyle modifications are important for overall well-being, the use of chemical drugs in managing hypertension remains necessary.
Chemical drugs for hypertension have undergone extensive research and have been proven effective in lowering blood pressure levels.
Alpha-blockers offer a targeted approach to address the specific mechanisms involved in hypertension, allowing for precise blood pressure control.
They work by inhibiting the ...
Source: The EMT Spot - July 17, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
High Blood Pressure and Erectile Dysfunction
Research confirms that high blood pressure and ED are closely linked. But did you know the majority of cases of ED are caused by hypertension? Keep reading to find out more.
Experts suggest that “hypertension is sometimes a standalone condition and sometimes it’s associated with other conditions, which also impact erectile dysfunction.”
According to the European Society of Cardiology, this likelihood is almost double in men with uncontrolled high blood pressure.
Long-term exposure to hypertension and elevated blood pressure damages the arterial wall. This leads to atherosclerosis and the narrowing of art...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 8, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Kutryk Tags: Guides Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
What is high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE)? Cardiology Basics
High altitude pulmonary edema is pulmonary edema which occurs on rapid ascent to high altitudes. It is a potentially life threatening condition and is a severe form of mountain sickness. Severe breathlessness with fall of oxygen level in the blood occurs in this condition. Cyanosis may be noted. The best way to prevent it is to ascend gradually, taking a few days to climb to 3000 meters. After that climb only very slowly, only about 300 to 500 meters a day. The risk is more if your usual residence is near sea level so that you are not acclimatized to high altitude at all. Previous episode increases your risk of a recurren...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 19, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Phosphodiesterase-9 inhibitors for the treatment of heart failure?
Phosphodiesterase-9 (PDE9) has the highest binding affinity among phosphodiesterases with cyclic guanosine monophosphate [1]. Cardioprotective effects of natriuretic peptides released in response to ventricular stretch in heart failure are mediated by the second messenger cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) [2]. Intracellular levels of cGMP and cAMP are governed by the activity of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases. 11 phosphodiesterases with varying tissue selectivity and substrate affinity for cGMP and cAMP have been identified (PDE1 to PDE11) so far.
Increased mortality with high doses of PDE3 inhibitors milrinone,...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 28, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Does Expanding Healthcare Coverage = an Increasing Risk of Fraud for Healthcare Payers?
The following is a guest article by Mandy Fogle, Healthcare Value Engineering at Shift Technology.
Telehealth is becoming the future of healthcare delivery across the globe. Traditional office visits are becoming a way of the past. Since the COVID pandemic began, healthcare has never had further reach of accessibility.
This type of delivery opens healthcare to more individuals who otherwise would not have been able to seek treatment before. Providers are now a phone call or an email away, and can reach patients even if they’re homebound or living in a rural area.
While health plans are embracing the ease of providing ser...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AI Solutions Healthcare AI Healthcare Coverage Healthcare Fraud Increased Access to Healthcare Mandy Fogle Shift Technology T Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research - 11th May 2022
Librarian intervention or advice (or your own subscription) may be needed to see the full papers for some of these.First, aqualitative evidence synthesis of Black, Asian and minority ethnic women ' s experiences of maternity services in the UK.Then, asystematic review of phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors in pregnancy, looking at maternal and perinatal safety and clinical outcomes. The study looked at tadalafil and sildenafil, the latter of course being Viagra, and these may be used in pregnancy in cases of placental dysfunction, foetal growth restriction, or maternal hypertension. There is discussion of the S...
Source: Browsing - May 11, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
The Licensing Walls Come Tumbling Down
BY KIM BELLARD
Abortion rights continue to be one of the most heated issues in American politics, super-fueled by last week’s leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn 1973’s Roe v. Wade and return the issue to the states to decide.
I’ll leave it to others more qualified than me – women, for example — to weigh in on abortion itself, but I want to talk about how abortion pills are going to force changes to our healthcare system that many may not be ready for.
Although the stereotype of abortions is a procedure done by a physician in an office/clinic, the majority of abortions in ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Pharmaceuticals Abortifacient Abortion Hey jane Just the Pill Kim Bellard State Licensing Source Type: blogs
Policies, Techies, VCS: Musings From a Futurist
By IAN MORRISON
I should’ve been in Paris last week on vacation with my wife, instead I listened in to the Policies Techies VCS: What’s Next For Healthcare conference (I’ll explain why later). Matthew Holt and Jessica DaMassa did a magnificent job of assembling the Who’s Who of digital health tech to wax lyrical about what the new kids on the block were up to, where it is all headed, and what it will mean for the system. (Full disclosure Matthew and Jess are friends of mine, I hired Matthew from Stanford almost 30 years ago to join the Institute For The Future (IFTF) and have watched proudly as he ha...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Futurists Ian Morrison Policies Techies VCs Source Type: blogs
THCB Book Club, October: Mike Magee, Code Blue
Dr. Mike Magee has spent his life inside the medical-industrial complex, eventually working at Pennsylvania Hospital and later becoming the doctor who sold Viagra to the world at Pfizer. He’s also an award winning medical broadcaster and historian who appears regularly on THCB these days. For the October THCB Book Club Jessica DaMassa and Matthew Holt had Mike on to discuss Code Blue — his magnum opus on how the American system become the medical-industrial complex that it is, the part he played, and what we might do to fix it! A fascinating and rich discussion. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: THCB Book Club THCB Spotlights Code Blue Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Medical Industrial Complex Mike Magee Viagra Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 17th June 2020
Some recent things you may need to know...Current news‘Black mothers were already scared’: coronavirus home births (Guardian video, about experiences in Pennsylvania)Global healthMonitoring intrapartum fetal heart rates by mothers in labour in two public hospitals: an initiative to improve maternal and neonatal healthcare in LiberiaRelated blog postClinical effectivenessLabor dystocia (AHRQ)ResearchDoes low-dose aspirin initiated before 11 weeks ' gestation reduce the rate of preeclampsia? (AJOG)Early amniotomy after cervical ripening for induction of labor: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlle...
Source: Browsing - June 17, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CETPH)
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) may occur in about 2-4% of patients presenting with acute pulmonary embolism. It is considered when mean pulmonary artery pressure persists at or above 25 mm Hg after an episode of pulmonary thromboembolism [1]. Though it is a rare complication of pulmonary embolism, mortality and morbidity are significant. Upto 90% three year mortality has been reported in those with mean pulmonary artery pressures above 50 mm Hg. Majority of those with CETPH may not give a history suggestive of previous presentation with acute pulmonary embolism.
In those who developed CETPH after pu...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 24, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology CETPH CTPH Source Type: blogs
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH)
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) may occur in about 2-4% of patients presenting with acute pulmonary embolism. It is considered when mean pulmonary artery pressure persists at or above 25 mm Hg after an episode of pulmonary thromboembolism [1]. Though it is a rare complication of pulmonary embolism, mortality and morbidity are significant. Upto 90% three year mortality has been reported in those with mean pulmonary artery pressures above 50 mm Hg. Majority of those with CTEPH may not give a history suggestive of previous presentation with acute pulmonary embolism.
In those who developed CTEPH after pu...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 24, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology CTEPH CTPH Source Type: blogs
Wheat is not sexy
Here’s another excerpt from my new Revised & Expanded Edition of Wheat Belly, taken from chapter 16, Mr. and Mrs. Wheat Belly:
LOOK DOWN AND YOU SHOULD immediately get an idea of where your sexual preferences lay. Well, at least a rough idea.
The unnatural situation created when humans try to consume the seeds of grasses, packed with disrupters of human hormones, undo some of those anatomical, pre-programmed tendencies. Once again, eating things that should never have made it onto the human dietary menu defies the script written into our genetic codes, expressed as painful menstrual cycles, excessive body hair, i...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 1, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open Source Type: blogs
Landmark Results Achieved in Aging and Chronic Disease: Danish Group Extends Disease-free Life by 8 Years
By WILLIAM H. BESTERMANN JR., MD
New Scientific Breakthroughs Can
Provide a Longer Healthier Life
Twenty-one years of follow-up comparing usual care with a protocol-driven team-based intervention in diabetes proved that healthy life in humans can be prolonged by 8 years. These results were achieved at a lower per patient per year cost. Aging researchers have been confident that we will soon be able to prolong healthy life. This landmark study shows this ambitious goal can be achieved now with lifestyle intervention and a few highly effective proven medications. These medications interfere with the core molecular biol...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients aging chronic disease Denmark Diabetes William Bestermann Source Type: blogs
