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| | EMBOLIZATION THERAPY FOR VEIN OF GALEN MALFORMATION - Pediatric Oncall |
 | | A new, less-invasive catheter approach is innovated that embolizes these malformations bringing the chance of survival for these babies up to 50 percent. | | | Disclaimer:The information given by www.pediatriconcall.com is provided by medical and paramedical & Health providers voluntarily for display & is meant only for informational purpose. | | | The procedure has to be done in stages to decrease the risk of embolization in the large carotids and consists of introduction of a catheter through the femoral artery upto the carotids and injecting the drug. |
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http://www.pediatriconcall.com/fordoctor/Journals/embolization.asp
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| | Fat Burners Ephedra Supplements |
| | Pulmonary embolization tends to cause severe shortness of breath, chest pain, and low oxygen levels, but since these are non-specific symptoms, other problems need to be ruled-out as well. | | | Symptoms of DVT include pain, redness and swelling of the affected leg, and this may mimic an infectious reaction. | | | Contrary to popular belief, embolization of DVTs does not cause heart attacks or strokes. |
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http://www.mrtrainer.com/nla32.html
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| | Abdominal Trauma |
| | Even the simple act of respiration, by moving the diaphragm up or down, may be crucial in determining whether intra-abdominal injury has occurred after a penetrating wound to the chest. | | | Direct surgical exploration of pelvic hematomas is generally followed by disaster. | | | Such conclusions may be incorrect if the bullet is deflected by bone or fascia, or embolizes, or if the patient was in a contorted position when injured. |
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http://aboutplastic.surgery.uiowa.edu/surgery/physpubs/abdominaltrauma.html
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| | eMedicine - Complications of Total Knee Arthroplasty : Article Excerpt by: Mervyn J Cross, MBBS, FRACS |
| | Perioperative complications are associated with blood loss, infection, early hemorrhage and wound breakdown, intraoperative fractures, anesthetic problems, and medical problems of cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and electrolytic problems. | | | Precautions are necessary with early mobilization, thromboembolic disease stockings, foot pumps, and anticoagulant therapy. | | | Deep venous thrombosis is a major danger, particularly if it embolizes to the lung. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/orthoped/byname/complications-of-total-knee-arthroplasty.htm
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| | Hampton Roads Center For Fibroid Embolization -- Fibroid Basics |
| | A relatively new alternative to surgical therapy is uterine fibroid embolization. | | | Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE) - Medical therapy fails to control symptoms in up to 2/3 patients with abnormal bleeding and a higher percentage in those with bulk type symptoms. | | | The most appropriate treatment for uterine fibroids depends on the severity and type of symptoms, size, number, and location of fibroids, and the patient's desire for preservation of fertility. |
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http://www.ufecenter.com/fibroid_treatment.html
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| | PE may also cause chest pain worsened on breathing in, or result in cough productive of blood-stained sputum. | | | Symptoms may be very insidious, when clot size/number is low, or can be severe and abrupt, when a large clot embolizes. |
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http://public.csusm.edu/guests/hhv/ask0403.txt
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| | Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE) |
| | Interventional radiologists are physicians who use X-rays and other imaging techniques to see inside the body and guide tiny catheters and other micro-tools to perform fibroid embolization and treat other conditions without surgery. | | | The patient is given a local anesthetic to numb the skin and a mild sedative, so the procedure is not painful. | | | Uterine fibroid embolization is not performed by gynecologists, who, for various reasons, may sometimes not discuss it as a possible option for their patients with fibroid tumors. |
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http://www.drfibroid.com/about.htm
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| | Sparrow Health System - Conditions |
| | A blood clot, which embolizes to the lungs, can cause injury to the lung tissues (pulmonary infarction), with resulting symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath. | | | These symptoms include dizziness, fainting, weakness, fatigue, shortness of breath, and angina (chest pain due to reduced blood flow to the heart muscles). | | | If the atrial fibrillation is not corrected by resolution of the primary problem, other treatment options may be used. |
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http://www.sparrow.org/heartcenter/conditions/artialfibrillation.htm
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| | Compositions for use in embolizing blood vessels - Patent 6342202 |
| | Other materials compatible with the embolizing compositions can be readily determined by the skilled artisan and include, for example, other polyolefins, fluoropolymers (e.g., Teflon.TM.), silicone, and the like. | | | under conditions wherein a precipitate is formed which embolizes the blood vessel. | | | Experimental Evaluations with a Model of Cortical Arterial Cannulation in the Canine Brain," Surgical Neurology, vol. |
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http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6342202.html
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| | Disease: thrombosis, deep vein - find signs & symptoms |
| | If the clot embolizes to the lung, there can be chest pain, shortness of breath, cough and rapid or irregular heart beats | | | The soreness may persist despite resting the extremity. |
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http://www.myelectronicmd.com/get_reference.php?Id=604
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| | Kane Boris Chernobilsky (474-9532) Slide #85 IV Drug Abuser This is a rather striking example of how everything that embolizes to the lung does not have to be a thrombus. | | | This “individual” (moron is more like it) decided that rather than abusing heroin, she would break open capsules of a medication that were indicated for oral consumption and injected her veins with it. | | | There are large numbers of granulomata responding to foreign material which has embolized to the lung. |
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http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/som/students/2001/noteservice/ll7.doc
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| | Medical Newswire - Healthcare, Biotechnology News Release Service |
| | Transcatheter therapy, embolization, any method, radiological supervision and interpretation) twice. | | | Transcatheter occlusion or embolization [e.g., for tumor destruction, to achieve hemostasis, to occlude a vascular malformation], percutaneous, any method, non-central nervous system, non-head or neck). | | | Because your radiologist embolized the separate bronchial arteries to treat separate conditions (two separate tumors), you can bill twice for this procedure. |
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http://medicalnewswire.com/artman/publish/article_4592.shtml
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 11, Ch. 132, Thrombotic Disorders |
| | Thrombolytic drug therapy is the first consideration when formulating an antithrombotic strategy because thrombolytic drugs can remove an established thrombus. | | | Subsequent antithrombotic therapy varies depending on whether the venous or arterial circulatory system is involved; the size and location of the involved vessels; the risks of extension, embolization, or recurrence; and the relative antithrombotic benefits and hemorrhagic risks. | | | Thrombotic disorders: Diseases characterized by formation of a thrombus that obstructs vascular blood flow locally or detaches and embolizes to occlude blood flow downstream (thromboembolism). |
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http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section11/chapter132/132a.htm
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| | Novel strategy in antithrombotic therapy: inhibition of the initial phase of thrombogenesis |
| | Current anti-thrombotic therapies focus primarily on the latter stages of the clotting cascade and there is a substantial demand for the development of novel therapeutics that target earlier events on this pathway. | | | Persons with thrombophilia are at increased risk of developing a clot (a thrombus) that obstructs blood flow locally or that detaches and embolizes. | | | However, persons with inherited alterations in proteins that promote or prevent coagulation may be predisposed to excessive bleeding (hemophilia) or clotting (thrombophilia). |
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http://www.biotechnologyireland.com/pooled/articles/BF_DOCART/view.asp?Q=BF_DOCART_98104
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| | Stroke or Transient Ischaemic Attack |
| | However, a stroke can also occur if a blood clot embolizes from a another clot forming source, the heart. | | | This can occur as a complication of acute myocardial infarction, or in some cases, a cardiac arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation. | | | Carotid arteries, which have been narrowed by the progressive effects of / atherosclerotic vascular disease, tend to form blood clots. |
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http://www.targetwoman.com/athene/Stroke
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| | Hopkins Medical News: Medical Updates |
| | A new, less-invasive catheter approach at Hopkins—which embolizes (clots) these malformations—now brings the chance of survival for these babies up to 50 percent. | | | Her team of doctors however, agreed they wanted to wait as long as they could after the baby was born so it would be strong enough to withstand the procedure. | | | And this time, within 48 hours, Joshua's swelling faded and his blood pressure plummeted. |
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http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/hmn/S02/medupdates.html
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| | The Etiology of Vertebrobasilar Stroke Temporally Related to Cervical Manipulation: Part II Charles Crom, DC |
| | If dissection is pre-existing at the time a patient presents to a chiropractor's office, is there a way to determine its existence before initiating adjustive therapy? | | | A much more plausible mechanism would be of a pre-existing dissection and clot that following manipulation, embolizes to a distal artery to a point too small to pass through and produces ischemia. | | | It seems unlikely that any form of dissection could occur with enough rapidity to result in immediate stroke or ischemic symptoms. |
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| | An All-In-One MRI Protocol for Acute Stroke |
| | nIV rt-PA is not effective for carotid occlusion in the neck which embolizes to MCA frequently. |
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http://www.med.wayne.edu/stroke/prof_edu/Benson/set_01/Final_MR_stroke1_files/slide0031.html
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| | Re: Alternative for coumadin |
| | The most worrisome complications of DVT occur when a clot breaks loose (or embolizes) and travels through the bloodstream to damage the lungs, the heart, the brain, or other organs. | | | The most worrisome > complications of DVT occur when a clot > breaks loose (or embolizes) and travels > through the bloodstream to damage the lungs, > the heart, the brain, or other organs. | | | Both Coumadin and Warfarin can be extremely DANGEROUSE if your physician does not control the dosage. |
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http://www.rxlist.com/rxboard/general.pl?noframes;read=2622
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| | Pulmonary embolism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death. | | | A pulmonary embolism (thromboembolism) occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_embolism
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| | ABILITY Magazine Kirk Douglas |
| | LG: A stroke is neurologic deficit caused by damage to an area of the brain. | | | In this case the ischemic attack affects the retina, or the transducer of light in the eye to images perceived by the brain. | | | Most commonly, the brain is injured when a plaque (that is in an artery that leads to the brain) breaks off (embolizes) and wedges itself deep into the brain substance. |
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http://www.abilitymagazine.com/douglas_stroke.html
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| | Most recently, women suffering from painful uterine fibroids have a non-operative alternative that in many cases can save them from having a surgical procedure. | | | Robert Allen, M.D., an interventional radiologist at Rose Medical Center, is one of the first in the Rocky Mountain Region to preform a new technique called uterine fibroid embolization | | | For more information on Uterine Fibroid Embolization call (720) 941-7000. |
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http://www.rosemed.com/CustomPage.asp?guidCustomContentID={97C5FE68-2162-4976-8E50-16C452566ECF}
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| | Atrial Myxoma -- eCureMe.com |
| | Ophthalmologic examination may show retinal infarction (death to the retinal tissue) due to emboli. | | | If, for example, the tumor embolizes to the brain, it can block off part of the blood supply to the brain and cause a stroke. | | | Though it is a benign tumor, it can become serious when a part of it breaks off and embolizes (moves) into the blood vessels and causes an obstruction of blood flow. |
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http://www.ecureme.com/emyhealth/data/Atrial_Myxoma.asp
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| | Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News |
| | Symptoms of DVT and its related conditions can vary and may include leg pain and swelling, or, in the case of an embolism, difficulty and pain with breathing. | | | PE, which occurs when a clot breaks loose (embolizes) and travels to the lungs or pulmonary artery, causes more deaths annually in the U.S. than breast cancer, highway fatalities or AIDS (1-4). | | | With DVT, a blood clot forms in the deep veins of the legs, pelvis or upper extremities, leading to either partially or completely blocked circulation. |
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http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=24823506
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| | Pathology Cases for Diagnosis |
| | The extent of the pathology seen with fungal endocarditis depends on the virulence of the organism. | | | The vegitations are usually on the atrial side of the atrioventricular valve or on the ventricular surface of the semilunar valve. | | | Right sided endocarditis usually embolizes to the lungs, while left sided endocarditis embolizes to the brain, eyes, spleen and kidney. |
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| | Metastatic disease - MedPix Medical Image Database and Teaching Files |
| | There is a "cascade" theory for tumor embolization and metastasis. | | | Blood from the gut is "filtered" in the liver, and gastrointestinal metastases usually begin in the liver before they spread to other organs. | | | Many of these same tumors also have angioinvasive factors that allow the tumor to penetrate through vessel walls. |
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http://rad.usuhs.mil/medpix/radpix.html?mode=single&recnum=1012
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| | Spinal Cord - An animal model for venous thrombosis and spontaneous pulmonary embolism |
| | The biological age of this process is not predicted by its chronological age. | | | Animal models of venous thrombosis (VT) and pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) have been limited to one or the other of these events, failing to reproduce the sequence of both VT and PE. | | | Thus, the clinical impression that VT quickly embolizes, |
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| | A piece breaks off the tumor and embolizes (travels through the blood stream) to another location that causes symptoms (stroke or lack of blood flow to a limb, etc.) or obstructs a coronary artery and causes angina or interferes with the conduction system causing heart block and a slow heart rate. | | | Symptoms usually occur when the tumor is large enough to obstruct blood flow through the heart, which causes heart failure. | | | These symptoms, when they occur, are usually not present until the tumor is relatively advanced. |
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| | Nursing: REcognizing and management: DVT--deep vein thrombosis |
| | A PE may be so mild that the patient doesn't even notice symptoms, or severe enough to cause an immediate cardiac arrest. | | | In itself, the formation of a DVT in the leg isn't lifethreatening, but if the dot embolizes to the lungs, it can cause a pulmonary embolus (PE). |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3689/is_200305/ai_n9237660
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| | Peripheral Arterial Disease -- Print Version |
| | Chronically diseased arteries and peripheral artery aneurysms may thrombose acutely leading to rapid worsening of symptoms. | | | In most cases, a thrombus embolizes from a proximal source (eg, the heart or the wall of an abdominal aortic aneurysm) and acutely occludes a distal peripheral artery. | | | Acute arterial occlusions may occur in both normal and diseased arteries. |
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http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/diseasemanagement/cardiology/pad/pad1.htm
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| | Obstetrical Emergencies |
| | A rare but frequently fatal complication of labor, this condition occurs when amniotic fluid embolizes from the amniotic sac and through the veins of the uterus and into the circulatory system of the mother. | | | The situation is only considered an emergency if the break occurs before thirty-seven weeks and results in significant leakage of amniotic fluid and/or infection of the amniotic sac. | | | The fetal cells present in the fluid then block or clog the pulmonary artery, resulting in heart attack. |
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http://encyclopedias.families.com/obstetrical-emergencies-2383-2386-gem
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| | Lincoff M - GP IIb/IIIa Inhibition in Acute Coronary Syndromes |
| | Thrombus which becomes occlusive or sub-occlusive or embolizes the coronary vessel may lead to unstable angina or myocardial infarction. | | | Management of the acute coronary syndromes is guided to a great extent by initial electrocardiographic findings, which in turn correlate with the extent of coronary occlusion. | | | Pathologic or angioscopic examinations have revealed the presence of characteristic platelet-rich ("white") thrombus at the site of plaque rupture, with proximal and distal extension of fibrin- and erythrocyte-rich ("red") clot (1, 2). |
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| | Cecil Textbook of Medicine : /> |
| | After penetrating the skin, the parasite embolizes to the small vessels of the lungs through the venous circulation. | | | Rhabditiform larvae then break into the alveolar spaces, ascend the respiratory tree, and are swallowed. |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 18, Ch. 253, Abnormalities And Complications Of Labor And Delivery |
| | Amniotic fluid embolizes to the pulmonary circulation, and the patient responds with collapse, shock, tachycardia, cardiac irregularity and arrest, and usually death. | | | Amniotic fluid embolism, an extremely rare event, can occur at any gestational age, usually with tumultuous labor and ruptured membranes, but it may occur during a cesarean section. |
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| | PE infarct |
| | Sudden death often ensues after blockage of blood flow thru lungs (bronchial circulation MAY sustain patient) | | | PE usually has its source in the deep veins of legs (95% of cases) when a DVT (deep vein thrombosis) embolizes. | | | Clots are almost always embolic in origin if they occur in pulmonary arteries. |
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| | pulmonary emolism information,pulmonary embolism |
| | A pulmonary emolism occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site offormation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs, causing vascular obstruction and impaired gasexchange. |
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| | DAH Sport Diver Rights |
| | The instructor is reassured, however, that the liability waiver will insulate him from any responsibility, or so he thinks. | | | The student embolizes, nearly dies, and is left paralyzed for life. | | | He streaks to the surface in a stream of bubbles. |
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| | Little patients, big numbers: Evaluating and managing infant hypertension - Contemporary Pediatrics |
| | The hypertension can develop while the catheter is in place or long after it has been removed. | | | The thrombus then embolizes to the kidneys, causing areas of infarction and an increase in renin release. | | | It is believed that disruption of the vascular endothelium of the umbilical artery at the time of line placement results in thrombus formation. |
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http://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/contpeds/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=154890&pageID=3
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| | Section européenne - History |
| | In this speech, he embolizes the war against Hitler, which is contrasting with his predecessor because Chamberlain wanted to preserve peace at all costs, to reassure the British population ; he adopted a policy of appeasement. | | | Three days later, on 13 May, he did a famous speech in the House of Commons. | | | On the contrary, Churchill's policy is to break down Hitler. |
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http://apella.ac-limoges.fr:16080/lyc-perrier-tulle/europ/student/portfoliodossier/M/churchill.htm
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| | Stroke |
| | can also occur if a blood clot embolizes from a another clot | | | the blood stream (embolize) and be deposited in the cerebral | | | There they can block a smaller caliber blood vessel, |
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| | ¾ Mitral Valve Stenosis Usually rheumatic fever history Fatigue, exertional dyspnea Pulmonary hypertension Atrial fibrillation may develop, embolization ê CXR: left atrial enlargement, straight left heart border elevated left mainstem bronchus, atrial double density ECG: Biphasic T wave lead VI Dx: Echo, cardiac cath. |
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