Patient Care and General Interest
3D personalized simulations of patient hearts reportedly allow physicians to better locate and treat arrhythmias.
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Electrophysiology/arrhythmia
September 14, 2018
August 31, 2018
A balanced editorial discussing the relevant RCT from Britain. The esteemed authors are correct to highlight the overall discouraging survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest WITHOUT NEUROLOGICAL DEFICIT. What does need to be done to improve a 3% acceptable outcome?
August 10, 2018
The latest instalment in the gender discordance saga, this one proferred by business/management school academics. I am not convinced that the coarse gender comparison takes into account the size discrepancy in coronary arteries and other, well-known to medical practitioners, anatomico-physiological differences of human genders.
August 3, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
Renowned former Formula 1 racing champion Niki Lauda recently underwent a lung transplant.
July 16, 2018
Inoue and Suematsu report their experience using a minimally invasive approach to left atrial appendage resection. The procedure was performed in 87 patients using an endoscopic linear cutter device, without cardiopulmonary bypass or cardiac arrest.
July 13, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
A 7-year-old girl who received a heart transplant as an infant is now competing in the Canadian Transplant Games, which are underway at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
June 15, 2018
Find it here: The 2018 ISMICS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
June 8, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
A charity bazaar raised money for a Shanghai Chest Hospital project that offers free heart surgery to children with congenital heart disease in China.
May 25, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
Coal miners in central Appalachia in the US have an increasing incidence of severe black lung disease and an associated increased need for lung transplantation.
May 22, 2018
This review of over 75,000 patients from a large administrative database found that occlusion of the left atrial appendage during cardiac surgery was associated with a reduced risk of subsequent stroke and all-cause mortality.