Survival of patients with diabetes and multivessel coronary artery disease

… Published the results of survival of patients with diabetes and MVD after surgical or percutaneous coronary revascularization. Their results showed that in 2766 risk matched diabetics PCI increased five-year mortality by 1.5–3.9 times...

Niles NW et al. of the Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group, J Am Coll Cardiol 2001;37:1008–1015.

 

 

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Long QT and Thymoma

I am about to get a thymectomy due to suspected thymoma.
Recently, the attacks of chest pressure/pain, rapid heart beat and sudden dizziness/nausea worsened and during the last one I was in patient and my right arm suddenly became very heavy, The ER doc was called. when...

Hi Sarah,
In patients with a thymoma, low calcium levels are occasionally associated with long QT. Treatment involves correcting abnormal calcium and resection of the thymoma. Otherwise, I...

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