Sweet and scrumptious to finish a magnificent meal and add inches to your waistline!
Soups
Ah! The pleasure of soup! Soups get better over time. You make them once, enjoy them, freeze them and eat them again when you don’t have time to cook a whole dinner. Use a combination of left overs and fresh ingredients and I guarantee you become another soup foodie like me. Most soups are very heart healthy, filling and can …
Dinner
Dinner used to be the name of the main meal of the day. Originally, it referred to the first meal of the day, eaten about noon, and is still occasionally used in this fashion if it refers to a large or main meal. So whenever you eat dinner, keep in mind that eating well means enjoying a variety of food—and …
Surgical Anatomy
A reference to the key anatomical landmarks for Thoracic surgical operative procedures
Obesity and a decreased heart function
Question: I have had chest pain for a bit and went to see a cardiac Dr. He did a cath and said that I have a moderately depressed ej.35-40%. He also wants me to get checked for sleep apnea. I am 43 yr old female with a strong family history of heart attack! ( My father died at 47 from …
The Mediterranean Diet:
The Mediterranean diet has proven beneficial effects not only regarding metabolic syndrome, but also on its individual components including waist circumference, HDL-cholesterol levels, triglycerides levels, blood pressure levels and glucose metabolism, according to a new study. ScienceDaily (Mar. 7, 2011) — The Mediterranean diet has proven beneficial effects not only regarding metabolic syndrome, but also on its individual components including …
Aortic Stenosis
There are three different localizations of aortic stenoses: Supravalvular Valvular Subvalvular (left ventricular outflow tract) through fibrous or muscular constriction below the aortic valve In critical aortic stenosis left heart failure occurs very soon after birth. The cardiac pulse is typically very soft because the cardiac ejection/volume is critically reduced. The pulse in the extremities is hardly discernable. Diagnosis: EKG: …
Patients with three vessel disease should undergo PCI!
Point-Counter point 2 Best way to revascularize patients with main stem and three-vessel lesions: Patients should undergo PCI![i] The optimal revascularization strategy for multivessel disease is under controversial discussion for long time. Until now, technical innovations have been faster than performance of clinical trials, making results of randomized studies outdated at the time of appearance. Recently, the SYNTAX trial[ii] has been …
For Profit Research
“For Profit Research” with investigators receiving consulting fees from the sponsor (not much progress since 2001): Medical Journal Editors Demand Accountability from Study Authors, Sponsors, AJHP (The American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy), 11/1/2001: “clinical studies are increasingly conducted with the goal of marketing products ”
CABG – Stroke and Surgery
Combining Cardiac Surgery and surgery for carotid stenosis is not effective in the prevention of Stroke. A new report, published in the September 2009 issue of Archives of Neurology. showed that stroke rates were significantly higher among patients who received combined endarterectomy and cardiac surgery. As a result, physicians at Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, Allentown, PA no longer combine …