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Congestive Heart Failure, What causes heart failure? Heart failure is not an exact term. Heart failure is a general umbrella term and may develop as a complicati...
Cardiac Tumours, Long-term outcomes are unclear due to the small number of cases involved. [ 14 ] Complications of cardiac tumours Left, right or combined ventricular ...
Respiratory Failure, Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): Is a mainstay of therapy in neonatal and paediatric patients with life-threatening respiratory and/or cardiac failur...
Cardiac Catheterisation, Assessing fluid requirements in patients with, for example, multi-organ failure. Preparation for cardiac catheterisation This will includ...
Cardiac Investigations, Uses: Monitor treatment response in cardiac failure and cardiomyopathy. Useful for serial measurements during anthracycline therapy.
Heart Failure Diagnosis and Investigation, See also the separate Heart Failure Management , Cardiac Rehabilitation and Palliative Care of Heart Failure artic...
Heart Failure Management, Post-discharge management for chronic heart failure Following discharge from hospital, cardiac failure patients can either be monitored via a cl...
Palliative Care of Heart Failure, The management of heart failure has improved considerably in recent years but people with heart failure and their families experience s...
Respiratory Failure, A heart ultrasound scan (echocardiography) : this can look for cardiac causes, such as a leaking heart valve or heart failure. What is the treatm...
Cardiac Catheterisation, What is a cardiac catheterisation? Cardiac catheterisation is a procedure in which a very thin plastic catheter is passed into the chambers of th...
Cardiac Transplant, Complications of a cardiac transplant [ 2 ] Apart from primary graft dysfunction, the main challenges after heart transplantation relate to either the efficacy or sid...
Cardiac Tamponade, Cardiac tamponade is caused by the accumulation of blood, fluid, pus, clots, or gas in the pericardial space, resulting in reduced ventricular filling and subsequent haem...
Digoxin and the Cardiac Glycosides, These cardiotonic agents are well recognised and accepted in the treatment of various cardiac diseases as they can increase the rate of cardia...
Cardiac Disease In Pregnancy, Stenosis poses more of a problem than incompetence, because the increased cardiac output is associated with heart failure and arrhythmias. All ...
Liver Failure, Various artificial liver devices have been developed and they may bridge the gap until a liver is available for transplant or until the liver failure recovery. What...
Cardiac Enzymes, Enzymes are proteins that speed up chemical reactions and biological processes in your body. Cardiac enzymes are also sometimes called cardiac biomarkers. T...
Hypotension - the triad of hypotension (systolic blood pressure <90 mm Hg), oliguria, and low cardiac output is known as cardiogenic shock . In hypertensive heart failure, a h...
Cardiac Enzymes and Markers for Myocardial Infarction, Elevated troponin levels can occur in patients without an ACS and are associated with adverse outcomes in many other clinical situations...
Cardiac-type Chest Pain Presenting in Primary Care, Shortness of breath may be the main symptom of cardiac ischaemia, associated with angina pain, or a symptom of heart failure...
Liver Failure, (Epidemiology) In the Western world, acute liver failure is estimated to affect fewer than 6.5 people per million population per year. [ 1 ] Globally, the incidence varies ...