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• How does mannitol cause transient volume expansion?

  Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 19:21 in General, pulmonary edema, mannitol, cerebral edema, pulmonary edema with mannitol, shift of extra vascular fluid, therapeutic use of mannitol

  Mannitol being an osmotically active agent draws fluid from the extravascular compartment into the vascular compartment. This causes transient volume expansion and may cause pulmonary edema if the cardiac or renal status is compromised. But if the re...

• Renin angiotensin aldosterone axis

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 20:04 in knowledge base

  Decrease blood flow to the kidneys cause them to secrete renin. Renin increases the production of angiotensin, a potent vasoconstrictor (causes contraction of smooth muscles of the blood vessels). Specifically it is angiotensin II which is one of the...

• Depression found to increase the risk of heart failure

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 07:22

  Heart patients who become depressed are found to have a higher risk of developing heart failure.  Heart disease affects millions of people in the world. In a study conducted on people who had a heart attack, it was found that people were 3 times mor...

• Concerns about radiation exposure in cardiac CT angiography

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 20:44 in angiography

  Cardiac CT angiography is new and popular field for non-invasive evaluation of coronary artery disease or blocks in the blood vessels supplying oxygenated blood to the heart. With the introduction of 64 slice CT (computed tomography), the number of C...

• Genetics and heart disease - Video

  Posted on Friday December 12th, 2008 at 08:06 in video, videos, heart disease prevention, prevent heart attack, dr. deepak srivastava, genetic heart disease, genetics and heart disease, genetics of heart disease, heart disease genetics

  Dr. Deepak Srivastava of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease speaks about the genetics of heart disease....

• Gene mutation found to burn fat faster

  Posted on Friday December 12th, 2008 at 07:38 in diabetes, cholesterol, pennsylvania, heart disease, lancaster, Endocrinology, medical research, hdl, triglycerides, ldl, university of pennsylvania, genetic mutation

  Recent research conducted at Lancaster, Pennsylvania have uncovered a gene mutation which burns fat faster. The study was conducted on 809 members of the Old Order Amish community. It involved going to the clinic in Lancaster and drinking a rick milk...

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