A continue from Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty – Technical Aspects and Clinical Outcome The technical success of BMV (defined as successful transseptal access and completion of balloon dilatation of the mitral valve) is uniformly high (>95%) in experienced centres, and the incidence of cardiac tamponade from inadvertent cardiac perforation is <1 %. (Table 1) With...
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Benefits Of Echinacea – Reliable Weapon Against Disease
No doubt, that the change of seasons cause negative effects to the body. Colds and coughs may be one of the disorders that often you experience in the climate change or season transition. The effort you can do to enhance the immune system to...
Radio And Chemotherapy For Oesophageal Cancer
Five-year survival after surgery or radiotherapy for cancer of the oesophagus is only 5-10%. In 1992, US workers reported significant benefit from combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy compared with radiotherapy alone in a randomised trial a which included 123 patients. Now they have reported long-term...
Spinal Cord Stimulation For Limb Ischaemia – Negative Trial
The best treatment for critical limb ischaemia is surgical revascularization or endovascular angioplasty but some patients are not suitable for either procedure. In such patients it has been suggested that electrical stimulation of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord might provide pain relief...
Prevention of Hypertension – Clinical Implications
At present, high blood pressure is detected by screening, meaning that it cannot be diagnosed until it has developed. Recommendations for primary prevention of hypertension currently emphasise avoidance of factors that predispose to hypertension, such as obesity, physical inactivity, alcoholism and a high salt...
Eggs And Coronary Disease Or Stroke (Negative Study)
The Health Professionals Follow-up Study (1986-94) and the Nurse’s Health Study (1980-94) included almost 38.000 men and over 80.000 women. After adjustment for confounding factors such as age and smoking there was no overall association between egg consumption and the incidence of coronary disease or stroke in...
Mechanisms of Virus-Induced Asthma Exacerbation
Asthma is characterised by airway inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness, resulting in reversible airway obstruction and paroxysmal coughing. The mechanisms by which viral infections exacerbate asthma are very complex. Recently there have been considerable advances in our understanding of asthma exacerbation at the cellular level...
