Within the last 24 months, I have financial relationship(s) or affiliation(s) with a manufacturer, marketer, reseller, or distributor of a healthcare product or service involved in the management of ...
Flash pulmonary edema is a severe form of acute decompensated heart failure. Treatment includes diuresis and vasodilation. Nitroglycerine is a venodilator that is a good option for treatment of these ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . What does a donkey have in common with the pathophysiology and treatment of congestive heart failure? More than ...
The heart pumps blood against the mechanical afterload from arterial resistance, and increased afterload may alter cardiac electrophysiology and contribute to life-threatening arrhythmias. However, ...
What is the optimal therapy for patients with acute congestive heart failure and severe aortic stenosis? What if the patient is hypotensive? Heart failure in the setting of AS is due to limitation of ...
1 MRC/UCT Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Sports Science Institute of South Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa 2 Centre for Sports Medicine and Human Performance, ...
A new model mimics physiologic loads on engineering heart muscle tissues, yielding an unprecedented view of how genetics and mechanical forces contribute to heart muscle function. Efforts to ...
The manner in which general anesthesia affects circulatory control was studied by examining the effects of commonly employed anesthetics on left ventricular function and distribution of cardiac output ...
For the last month, Nadia Awad, PharmD, and her ED team at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey have struggled with a shortage of nitroglycerin. "IV nitroglycerin is really our workhorse for ...