ALLMedicine™ Aortic Coarctation Center

Feb 4th, 2023 - Intestinal microbial metabolites are a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, and phenylacetylglutamine (PAGln) is a newly discovered intestinal metabolite in the latest study. In addition, elevated plasma PAGln concentration was associated with...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - The present case report focuses on a rare presentation of aortic coarctation. A 38-year-old man with well-controlled arterial hypertension, minimal change glomerulonephritis and colitis ulcerosa was suffering from recurrent acute renal failure epi...

Jan 31st, 2023 - Chronic heart failure (CHF), a conventional, complex, and severe syndrome, is generally defined by myocardial output inadequate to satisfy the metabolic requirements of body tissues. Recently, miR-568 was identified to be down-regulated in CHF pat...

Jan 24th, 2023 - Women with Turner syndrome (TS) have an increased risk of aortic disease, reducing life-expectancy. This study aimed to systematically review the prevalence of thoracic aortic dilatation, aortic dimensions and growth, and the incidence of aortic d...

Jan 20th, 2023 - Pain and pain control remain a major concern in the neonatal and infant populations and pain is often undertreated in order to achieve other goals of medical management. Pain control with narcotic medications create an additional concern as withdr...

Jan 20th, 2023 - Pain and pain control remain a major concern in the neonatal and infant populations and pain is often undertreated in order to achieve other goals of medical management. Pain control with narcotic medications create an additional concern as withdr...

Mar 23rd, 2022 - Background Bicuspid Aortic Valve (BAV) is the most common congenital heart defect with prevalence around 1 to 2% of the general population . It is defined by the presence of two functional cusps with less than three parallel zones of apposition be...

Feb 1st, 2022 - Coarctation of the aorta is one of the most common congenital heart diseases (5 to 8%). This heart disease can clinically result in two major clinical presentation: a neonatal form, early and potentially severe, which will require urgent care. And...

Nov 24th, 2021 - The study will include 40 patients who fulfil all the points in the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be randomized into two equal groups, each consisting of 20 patients, namely group (B) and group (C). Group (B): will receive erector spinae p...

Aug 17th, 2020 - Bicuspid aortic valve is the most common congenital valvular heart anomaly in the general population, with a prevalence estimated between 0.5 - 2%. It is more common in males than females with ratios reported between 2:1 and 3:1. The prevalence of...

Mar 28th, 2019 - Medicare proposed expanding payment for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). MedPage Today has more about the requirements here. Direct TAVR with a CoreValve device skipping the usual step of balloon pre-dilatation was found to be just a...

Dec 7th, 2018 - At baseline, all the women had a mean age of about 30 years. Most (75%) were on monotherapy, 20% were on polytherapy, and the rest were not taking an AED.

Dec 18th, 2017 - Kaiser Permanente Northern California nearly doubled thrombolytic use and cut door-to-needle times without more adverse events by implementing a standardized protocol with all emergency stroke cases managed by a dedicated telestroke neurologist. (...

Jan 18th, 2017 - A snapshot of trends in U.S. cath labs pointed to some improvements in care but also room for progress, according to data from four of the American College of Cardiology's National Cardiovascular Data Registries. "In some cases, hospitals are cons...

Sep 16th, 2016 - Shockwave Medical's Lithoplasty System is now the first lithotripsy device approved by the FDA to treat calcified plaque in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). The technology disrupts the plaque via sound waves, a strategy already commo...