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Cetirizine is a second-generation antihistamine used to treat allergic rhinitis (hay fever), dermatitis, and urticaria (hives). [5] It is taken by mouth. [6] Effects generally begin within thirty minutes and last for about a day. [6]
Coronary artery bypass surgery aims to prevent death from coronary artery disease and improve quality of life by relieving angina, the associated feeling of chest pain. [1] The decision to perform surgery is informed by studies of CABG's efficacy in different patient subgroups, based on the lesions' anatomy or how well the heart is functioning.
John W. Kirklin at the Mayo Clinic was the first to use a Gibbon-type pump-oxygenator. [20] [22] Russell M. Nelson became the first surgeon to perform an open heart surgery in Utah in 1955. [23] Nazih Zuhdi performed the first total intentional hemodilution open-heart surgery on Terry Gene Nix, age 7, on 25 February 1960 at Mercy Hospital in ...
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 147 (1): 203– 8. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.09.016. PMID 24183338. Smit PJ, Shariff MA, Nabagiez JP, Khan MA, Sadel SM, McGinn JT (June 2013). "Experience with a minimally invasive approach to combined valve surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting through bilateral thoracotomies".
Early Morbidity and Mortality Within 30 days of hospitalization, morbidity and mortality after Bentall procedure are associated with complications stemming from cardiac arrhythmia, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), sepsis, graft infection, wound infection, neurologic/ cerebrovascular accident and stroke, hemorrhage/ bleeding, myocardial infarction, pericardial effusion ...
Cardiac surgery training in the United States is combined with general thoracic surgery and called cardiothoracic surgery or thoracic surgery. A cardiothoracic surgeon in the U.S. is a physician who first completes a general surgery residency (typically 5–7 years), followed by a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship (typically 2–3 years).
Aortic valve replacement is a cardiac surgery procedure whereby a failing aortic valve is replaced with an artificial heart valve.The aortic valve may need to be replaced because of aortic regurgitation (back flow), or if the valve is narrowed by stenosis.
Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), or ischemic heart disease (IHD), [13] is a type of heart disease involving the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to a build-up of atheromatous plaque in the arteries of the heart.