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Radiation induced coronary artery disease – RICAD
Radiation induced coronary artery disease – RICAD Radiation induced coronary artery disease (RICAD) is an important long term sequelae of radiotherapy to the chest region. The most common conditions associated with RICAD are breast cancer and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The risk is higher in Hodgkin’s lymphoma because they receive a higher dose of radiotherapy [1]. It may be noted that radiation is used in the treatment of about 50% of cancers [2]. Hence the importance of RICAD. Radiation causes vascular endothelial injury. It initiates and accelerates atherosclerosis. Proinflammatory cytokines were increased in ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 27, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Onco Cardiology Source Type: blogs

A curious CT scan in Cardiology
Presentation A 38-year-old women,with  episodic chest discomfort, mild dyspnea, and occasional non-productive cough. She was investigated in a non-emergent fashion.  After an abnormal X-ray chest, A CT scan was requested.  (*X-ray chest is Intentionally not posted here to add some curiosity factor) This is probably one of the most curious Images in cardiology I have stumbled upon. At the first look, it seemed a baseball has replaced a heart. Is it not? Posted with Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0. Afzal et al. Dept of Internal Medicine, Florida Hospital, Orlando, USA.Cureus 10(11): e3566. When you see su...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - March 23, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized aneurysm of coronary artery coronary artery aneurysm Images in cardiology Source Type: blogs

We all treat the whole patient. We must avoid tunnel vision at all costs.
This article was written with Dr. Scarlet’s mother, Susan Scarlet. Sara Scarlet is a surgery resident and can be reached on Twitter at @SaraScarletMD.  This article originally appeared in the Gold Foundation blog.  Image credit: Shutterstock.com Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sara-scarlet" rel="tag" > Sara Scarlet, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Cardiology Hospital-Based Medicine Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

A medical student is diagnosed with cancer. Here is his story.
I began medical school, like many of my peers, with some experience working with patients. I worked as a volunteer EMT with Cornell University EMS for four years during my undergraduate years; shadowed a cardiologist and an anesthesiologist through Cornell’s Urban Summer program at NYP Hospital–Cornell and worked with patients during Global Medical Brigade trips to rural Honduras. All of this sparked my interest in medicine, but to claim I had any real understanding of a patient’s existential journey through serious disease would be an overstatement. That changed abruptly at the start of my first year at Albert Einst...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 2, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ari-bernstein" rel="tag" > Ari Bernstein < /a > Tags: Conditions Cancer Medical school Source Type: blogs

A Million Jobs in Healthcare ’ s Future
By PRAVEEN SUTHRUM “The Future is Here. It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed.” It’s true. Science fiction writer William Gibson said that right. We simply have to look around enough – now – to find out what the future holds. The future may never be evenly distributed. But it’s surely becoming the present faster. What would you do when… Here are a series of what-would-you-do-when questions to think about. Each of these are a reality today, somewhere. There’s more medical data than insight Kaiser Permanente presently manages 30 petabytes of data. Images. Lab tests. EHRs. Pat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Tech Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Cardiology X-ray Quiz
What are the findings and diagnostic possibilities? Rounded shadow in the left upper zone on this X-ray chest PA view is due to an aortic arch aneurysm. Another possibility is an aneurysm of the ductus arteriosus, which can also rarely occur after surgical closure of patent ductus arteriosus. Lymph nodes in the region as in lymphoma can also produce a similar appearance. An aneurysm in this location can produce hoarseness of voice by left vocal cord palsy as a result of compression of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve. Thymic mass is another differential diagnosis for a lesion in this location. An aneurysmally dilated pul...
Source: Cardiophile MD - July 25, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiac CT scan Cardiology X-ray aneurysm of the ductus aneurysm of the ductus arteriosus Aorta aortic arch aortic arch aneurysm compression of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve lymphoma saccular aneurysm saccular aortic aneurysm th Source Type: blogs

Level 2 vs. Level 3 H & P Coding Comparison.
This lecture will assist physicians and other non-physician practitioners (NPPs) determine if their initial hospital admission note documentation meets criteria for a level 2 (mid level H&P) or a level 3 (high level H&P)evaluation and management (E/M) code.  Recovery Audit Contractors will likely continue to target high level initial hospital encounters for improper payments.  Physicians and other NPPs must continue to pursue documentation education to prevent accusations of overbilling and to prevent under billing for work provided.  I am an internal medicine physician with over 10 years experience ...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - April 10, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: The Happy Hospitalist Source Type: blogs

Level 2 vs. Level 3 H&P Coding Comparison.
This lecture will assist physicians and other non-physician practitioners (NPPs) determine if their initial hospital admission note documentation meets criteria for a level 2 (mid level H&P) or a level 3 (high level H&P) evaluation and management (E/M) code.  Recovery Audit Contractors will likely continue to target high level initial hospital encounters for improper payments.  Physicians and other NPPs must continue to pursue documentation education to prevent accusations of over billing and to prevent under billing for work provided.  I am an internal medicine physician with over 10 years experienc...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - April 10, 2014 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs

Transcript of Dr. Bihari Video
00:00 to 02.26—Dr. Bihari gives his background and credentials. Dr. Bihari: My medical training started at Harvard Medical School. I graduated in 1957. Then I trained in Internal Medicine at one of the Harvard teaching hospitals in Boston, Beth Israel, and then in Neurology at Massachusetts General in Boston. Then I went to the National Institutes of Health for two years doing brain physiology—brain research. I did another residency training in Psychiatry in New York, at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and then, over the following five or six years, I got very involved in working in Drug Addiction. By 1974, I was...
Source: HONEST MEDICINE: My Dream for the Future - May 16, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JuliaS1573 at aol.com (Julia Schopick) Tags: Anecdotal Treatments HONEST MEDICINE Integrative Medicine Low Dose Naltrexone Obituaries Source Type: blogs