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Category Archives: heart/cardiovascular
On a mission to help: Doctor’s intensive-care skills help poor children with heart trouble in Peru
BY JIM HOWE A career spent caring for very sick children, plus some mechanical ingenuity, helped I. Federico Fernández Nievas, MD, when he accompanied a medical charity team to Peru. He joined about two dozen other medical professionals from around … Continue reading
Posted in health care, heart/cardiovascular, intensive care, international health care, lung/pulmonary, surgery, Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital/pediatrics, volunteers
Tagged medical mission, medical mission trip, pediatric intensive care, pediatric intensivist, Peru
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Emergency action: Off-duty Upstate doctors and nurses respond to people in distress
Doctors, nurses and others in caring professions spend their careers taking care of people. Sometimes their lifesaving efforts occur outside of their work hours. Though not legally obligated to help, many professional caregivers are programmed to respond in an emergency. Gridiron collapse … Continue reading
Posted in emergency medicine/trauma, health care, heart/cardiovascular, medical student, nursing
Tagged CPR, defibrillator, Heimlich maneuver
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A historical look at 5 popular heart medications: Are you taking any of them?
BY AMBER SMITH Some of the newer cardiac drugs were chemically designed in laboratories before going through years of expensive clinical trials and eventually gaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Some of the older drugs, which are still … Continue reading
Airlifted to Upstate, North Country man undergoes lifesaving heart surgery and beats the odds
BY EMILY KULKUS Chris Diaz is no stranger to fear or pain. Diaz, 35, spent four years in the Army, including nearly a year in Iraq from 2009 to 2010. When you’re in the Army, if something hurts, you drink … Continue reading
Posted in health care, heart/cardiovascular, patient story, surgery
Tagged aortic dissection, aortic valve replacement, heart valve replacement, TAVR, transcatheter aortic valve replacement
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Upstate earns recognition for stroke treatment
Upstate University Hospital’s care for strokes and heart failure has again earned high marks from three national organizations. The award — Get With The Guidelines® — Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus — recognizes … Continue reading
Posted in health care, heart/cardiovascular, stroke
Tagged care of heart failure, comprehensive stroke center, heart failure, stroke care, stroke care award
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Medically fragile, mentally strong: Preschooler thrives, despite cardiac and neurological problems
BY AMBER SMITH In 2013, friends of Kristy and John Cornell told the couple about a woman who gave birth to a baby girl in the Buffalo area. The baby was to be adopted, and she had health problems. The Cornells … Continue reading
Posted in allergies/asthma, cancer, health care, heart/cardiovascular, lung/pulmonary, patient story, surgery
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Lessons from Upstate: Stroke risks, medication reactions, ADHD and teen parenthood
New medications can cause reactions Umair Masood, MD, and colleagues from Upstate’s department of internal medicine shared the story of a 57-year-old man with a history of alcoholism in the Journal of Basic and Clinical Pharmacy. The man came to the … Continue reading
Posted in adolescents, arthritis, drugs/medications/pharmacy, emergency medicine/trauma, health care, heart/cardiovascular, liver/ gallbladder/ pancreas, research, sexuality
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News you may have missed: medical inventions, lactation counselors, cardiac surgery chief
Program encourages medical innovators A heat sleeve designed for limb amputees, an at-home glaucoma measurement test and a personal health and wellness messaging system are among seven medical devices and service proposals selected to participate in the Medical Device Innovation … Continue reading
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Tandem treatment: Polymer ‘truck’ penetrates tumor, kills ovarian cancer cells
BY AMBER SMITH The ovarian cancer drug doxorubicin can be toxic to the heart. Giving a woman enough of the drug to be effective against her cancer may be too much to be safe for her heart. Scientists at Upstate … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, drugs/medications/pharmacy, health care, heart/cardiovascular, research, women's health/gynecology
Tagged Doxil, doxorubicin, ovarian cancer, ovarian cancer drug, ovarian cancer treatment, ovarian tumors, vitamin B2
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