Coronary stent

The Road to Success Reading and writing are like the components of a workout; the more you practice, the better you’ll become. This comparison became my motto during a time I had to learn a new language. Although it wasn’t just any language like English or Spanish, this language involved codes, signs, abbreviations, and terms. I would have to learn this new language through the help of reading and writing in a mere three months. Having a hate-hate relationship with reading and writing…

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is also know as the broken heart disease. Broken heart disease symtoms is a mimic small heart attack. You'll start to feel chest pain and increase of breath. The main reason causing broken heart disease is the building of stress. The adrealine builds up causing the heart to contract rapidly and then make the heart stop causing a form like heart attack. What triggers broken disease can be a loss of a realative or friend. The emotions take a huge role that contract the…

Complications Cardiac catheterization is categorized as an invasive procedure that involves the heart, its valves, and coronary arteries, in addition to femoral artery which is a large artery. Cardiac catheterization complications can be classified in to cardiac and vascular complications.…

therapies compared to contemporary or traditional therapies to reduce the negative symptoms associated to menopause, improve the quality of life for perimenopausal females, and avoid complications associated with females who have breast cancer or coronary artery disease who cannot take traditional or…

Primary causes of stroke include, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, hypertension, heart disease, and hyperlipidemia (Mayo Clinic, 2015). Stroke is divided into two categories, hemorrhagic and ischemic. A hemorrhagic stroke has the highest incidence of death, it is characterized by excessive blood…

Heart disease is a disorder of blood vessels which can lead to a heart attack. Also called cardiovascular disease/ cardiac disease. Heart disease is a condition that involves narrowed or blocked blood vessel. That prevent other body part of your body like the heart from recieving blood. Symptoms and effects of this disease Effects; heart disease, chest pain, stroke, can effect your heart muscle valves. Symptoms; shortness of breath, pain in neck, jaw, throat, numbness and weakness. Since…

one killer in the United States. The term Heart Disease is used to label a range of diseases that affect the heart; heart failure and coronary artery disease- are a few of many serious heart problems. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, their research suggest that heart disease begins with damage to the lining and inner layers of the coronary (heart) arteries. The buildup of plaque in the heart arteries may even start as early as childhood. When the heart’s tasks become…

Prosthetic Heart Valves for Pediatric Patients Madeline Setear, Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island BME 181 First Presentation, March 6th, 2017 Abstract— Heart valve failure makes up a significant portion of Cardiovascular diseases. Heart valves fail when they are damaged and deteriorating or when they have congenital deformities. Heart valve replacement methods have improved greatly in the past decade. Currently, Mechanical and Biological Heart valve prosthesis exist but both…

pacemaker and/or ICD placement is approximately 4% (2). Pathophysiology: PLSVC occurs when the embryologic structure, the left anterior cardinal vein, fails to involute to become the ligament of Marshall. The PLSVC most commonly connects to the coronary sinus, eventually returning blood to the right atrium. Patients with PLSVC are at increased risk of developing various cardiac arrhythmias for multiple reasons. First, embryologic pacemaker tissues on the right side SVC form the SA node…

In contrast to thrombocytopenia, thrombophilia is where there are too many platelets in the blood meaning blood has an increased tendency to form clots. Blood clots are known as venous thromboses and they come in many forms linked with different parts of the body. For example, the most common form of blood clots is within the leg veins and this is known as deep vein thrombosis (DTV). The blood clotting process is a simple process in comparison to some of the bodily functions. When a cut to the…