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Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) is a traditional and well established surgical procedure for treating diseases in the coronary artery. The process is carried out by using blood vessels alternately (vein or artery). Initially, CABG was performed by using the left internal mammary artery and saphenous vein. It was observed that the chance of occlusion in the vein grafts was much higher than the arterial grafts. In the last decade, total arterial grafting, which uses all the arterial conduit...more
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Heart ablation or cardiac ablation is a procedure done to treat irregular heartbeats or arrhythmias. It is performed by an interventional cardiologist, a doctor who specialises in doing procedures for heart problems and it involves threading long wires called catheters through a blood vessel into your heart. The irregular heartbeat is treated by delivering an electrical pulse using electrodes to specific areas of your heart.
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A normal heart beats at a steady rate, but som...more
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A normal heart beats at a steady rate, but som...more
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Operation is sometimes needed. For deciding about surgery, doctors check symptoms, ECG and echo pictures. Please post his ECG and echo graphics for a better opinion.
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Hello, The Unstable cervical fractures require fixation with cage. But the recovery following spinal cord injuries is very variable and unpredictable some people regain function over 6 mo to a year with proper physiotherapy. Some may not recover any function and may remain bed ridden for ever. A MRI of spinal cord can predict the grade of injury and if recovery possible or not. You can take a second opinion with a neurosurgeon with the reports before surgery.
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Back Pain:This is a general low back ache and for this you can follow these measures: one keep a pillow right under the knee while sleeping, next is you can keep ice in the painful area for about 5--10 minutes, if pain still persists you can stretch your body by twisting the waist on both sides how we used to do in the school drill similarly you can try which will help you relax as well will reduce the pain. It looks like you are anaemic. If you have back pain after you sit for long hours then i...more
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