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Researchers identify safety of a potential new treatment to manage complications from sickle cell disease

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

A drug approved to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension may be effective at managing hypertension and end-organ damage in patients with sickle cell disease, according to a new study published in Lancet Haematology.

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Safety of a potential new treatment to manage complications from sickle cell disease

Science Daily - Heart Disease

A drug approved to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension may be effective at managing hypertension and end-organ damage in patients with sickle cell disease, according to a new study.

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Diffuse ST depression, and ST elevation in aVR. Left main, right?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This ECG was recorded on a middle-aged male with sickle cell disease and diffuse pain. found that such ECG findings only represented left main ACS in 14% of such ECGs: Only 23% of patients with the aVR STE pattern had any LM disease (fewer if defined as 50% stenosis). What do you think?

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What does the ECG show in this patient with chest pain, hypotension, dyspnea, and hypoxemia?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Chronic RVH is due to chronic pulmonary hypertension, and these patients are extremely difficult to manage when they are acutely ill. Obviously he has multiple reasons to have pulmonary hypertension. But in pulmonary hypertension, RV perfusion is greatly diminished, especially when there is hypotension. How about management?

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Part 1: Concepts, Indicator Variables, and Controversies The Annals of Thoracic Surgery January 2022 Arman Kilic Supplementing Existing Societal Risk Models for Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement With Machine Learning for Improved Prediction Journal of the American Heart Association November 2021 Jared Belle Strategies for Mechanical Right Ventricular (..)

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Institutional Coronary Artery Bypass Case Volumes and Outcomes European Journal of Heart Failure October 2023 Makoto Mori 1 Robotic Mitral Valve Repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation The Annals of Thoracic Surgery August 2023 Carlos Diaz-Castrillion 2 Volume-Failure to Rescue Relationship in Acute Type A Aortic Dissections: An Analysis of The (..)