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  • What is a Blood Clot?
    Health - 13 Mar 2023
    Blood clotting or coagulation is a normal but complex bodily process that is designed to prevent bleeding in response to an injury or cut.
  • Vascular Surgery
    Health - 29 Dec 2022
    The surgical specialty which deals with disorders of the circulatory system, including those of the arteries, veins and lymphatic vessels, is called vascular surgery. These specialists treat varying...
  • Broken Heart/Takotsubo Syndrome Complications
    Health - 28 Dec 2022
    Broken heart syndrome, or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM), is a temporary and reversible disease presenting as an unexpected weakening of the left ventricular myocardium. It mainly occurs in...
  • Rheumatic Heart Disease: Symptoms
    Health - 29 Mar 2021
    While RHD remains asymptomatic for years in many cases, it may eventually present with tiredness, feeling short of breath after exertion, and chest pain.
  • Heparin Drug Development
    Health - 20 Jun 2023
    Heparin is a naturally occurring anticoagulant. Heparin is contained in mast cells and is released into blood vessels at sites of tissue injury to prevent blood clots forming.
  • Empyema Diagnosis
    Health - 14 Mar 2023
    Empyema is considered to be a sub-classification of parapneumonic pleural effusion.
  • What is D-Dimer?
    Health - 25 Feb 2021
    D-dimer is often used to measure and assess clot formation. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, elevated D-dimer levels have been associated with disease severity.
  • Shortness of Breath Causes
    Health - 26 Jun 2019
    There are various causes of shortness of breath, also sometimes referred to as breathlessness of dyspnea, which may result in difficulty breathing. Most commonly, there is an underlying medical...
  • Status Epilepticus Risk Factors and Complications
    Health - 27 Feb 2019
    Status epilepticus (SE) is a condition in which seizure activity in the brain persists for prolonged periods of time. It is associated with significant mortality of 15-22% in adults and has a high...
  • What is Mitral Regurgitation?
    Health - 27 Feb 2019
    The human heart has four valves which direct the flow of blood in the correct double-circulation mode, taking blood to and from the lungs as well as to and from the rest of the body. Two of the valves...

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