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Ask the Doctors: Congestive Heart Failure
ValpoLife.com A: Nearly six million Americans are affected by congestive heart failure (CHF), and it is the leading cause of hospitalization in people age 65 and older.* “Heart failure does not mean the heart has stopped working,” said Michael Wheat, M.D. “What it … |
Press HeraldMassachusetts man who survived heart failure to cycle 4400 milesPress HeraldHarris developed a staph infection, which traveled into his heart, and destroyed his mitral valve. When he arrived at the emergency room at Anna Jaques with a 104-d…
U of M Program Helping Local Man Live Through Heart FailureKSTP.comIn November 2012 Saliin had what he thought was the flu. Into February 2013 things got so bad he decided to see a doctor. Dr. Dan Garry gave 47-year old Alan Saliin, of Forest Lake, a o…
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Belly Fat Stem Cells May Cure Chronic Kidney Disease
Counsel & Heal Researchers said that latest findings suggest that stem cells taken from chronic kidney disease patients’ own abdomens could be used to help preserve and improve kidney function. Share This Story. Related News. Diabetic Adults from Canada’s First … |
Penn Medicine: Initiation of Dialysis for Acute Kidney Injury Beneficial for …Penn: Office of University CommunicationsThe decision to initiate dialysis for acute kidney injury (AKI) varies depending on different patient factors and there is a lack o…
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UTSW Cardiologists ID New Symptom of Advanced Heart Failure
D Healthcare Daily Shortness of breath while bending over is a likely symptom of advanced heart failure that could indicate the condition is progressing, UT Southwestern cardiologists found. They named the easily detectable symptom “bendopnea” and say it points to the … |
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Initiation of dialysis for acute kidney injury potentially dangerous for frail …
Science Codex PHILADELPHIA – The decision to initiate dialysis for acute kidney injury (AKI) varies depending on different patient factors and there is a lack of robust evidence as to which patients are likely to benefit most and why. A new study from researchers at … In AKI, Dialysis Works Better With Higher CreatinineMedPage Today AKI Predictors in Lymphoma Patients IdentifiedRenal and Urology News |
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Initiation of dialysis for acute kidney injury potentially dangerous for frail …
EurekAlert (press release) PHILADELPHIA – The decision to initiate dialysis for acute kidney injury (AKI) varies depending on different patient factors and there is a lack of robust evidence as to which patients are likely to benefit most and why. A new study from researchers at … |
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LIVE MEDTALK: Treating Congestive Heart Failure and the Role of Payment …
Brookings Institution In a new and exciting “MEDTALK” format that converges medicine, education and delivery reform, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform presents the Merkin Series on Innovations in Care Delivery. These unique learning opportunities will allow … |
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Researchers identify ‘bendopnea’ as new symptom for heart failure
ModernHealthcare.com (blog) If a patient with heart failure experiences shortness of breath as he or she leans forward to tie a shoelace or put on a sock, it might be an overlooked sign that their disease is advancing, a new study finds. Researchers coined the term “bendopnea” to … |