What is Cerebral Vasospasm?

It is the narrowing or reduction of caliber of the intracranial vessels that can occur during the evolution of a patient who has suffered meningeal hemorrhage. It usually occurs between the third and twelfth days after bleeding.

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What is Brain Aneurysm?

It is an abnormal dilation of a vessel (artery or vein) in the brain caused by several factors (atherosclerosis, congenital defect, trauma, infection, etc …) that promote the formation of an area of ​​weakness of its vessel wall. It is a problem that affects 2 to 5% of the population, can happen to anyone at any age (although more frequent in adults) and can result in a hemorrhage (bleeding) reaction in the brain, most often without notice. Warning signs for aneurysm rupture can include headache unprecedented and intense sudden onset, associated with blurred vision, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, sudden drooping eyelid, among others.

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What is Coronary Angioplasty?

Coronary arteries are the vessels responsible for blood supply, oxygen and nutrients to the heart muscle. When the coronary arteries have blockage by fatty plaque there is a difficulty in the passage of blood, which can cause chest pain (angina pectoris) and / or acute myocardial infarction. Angioplasty is a technique performed in order to clear one or more arteries of the heart. For this we use a balloon catheter (catheter with a tiny balloon at the end) that reaches the point of stenosis of the coronary artery and through its inflation can unclog the toilet, facilitating or normalizing blood flow there.

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What is Cardiac Catheterization?

Cardiac catheterization is a procedure performed in order to diagnose and / or treat many cardiac pathologies. Through this you can assess heart function, the anatomy of the coronary arteries, presence of plaque (stenosis) in arteries, changes in the functioning of the heart valves, congenital diseases to diagnose and calculate various hemodynamic parameters.

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Everything You Need to Know About Hypertension

Hypertension is the medical term for high blood pressure. It is part of life for many people, young or old. Hypertension is a very common disease. To get an idea of ​​its importance, of every ten adults, about two have high blood pressure. It is a chronic disease, or that has no cure and that is slowly, silently damaging important organs of our body, such as heart, kidneys and brain. Over time, it causes heart failure, angina, heart attack, stroke and kidney failure, and may even lead to death.

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Everything You Need to Know About Antidepressants

Antidepressants are the first line treatment against depression. Annual sales of antidepressants are approximately 50 billion dollars, making this class of drugs most commonly prescribed one of these days. Many pharmaceutical companies engaged in direct marketing of antidepressants to consumers through television and print media.

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Everything You Need to Know About How Antibiotics Work

An antibiotic is any substance that interferes with the ability of bacteria to function normally (remember, the bacteria are living organisms). Can inhibit their growth (bacteriostatic antibiotic) or kill bacteria (bactericidal antibiotics). Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections, ranging from almost deadly diseases such as meningitis, common problems such as acne and tonsillitis. Antibiotics do not serve to cure diseases caused by viruses such as colds or flu.

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Remedies for Depression

Fluoxetine, the market is known as Prozac, which is part of the medicines to treat depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa and panic disorder.

The remedy for depression is used in the form of fluoxetine hydrochloride, being swallowed in capsules or oral solution. The same is marketed requiring a prescription.

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Everything You Need to Know About Sleeping Pills

The sleeping pills are not new: several centuries ago, infusions of various herbs were already used to induce sleep. At the beginning of the twentieth century, barbiturates, and by the 1960s, benzodiazepines have been released. The newer sleeping pills do not carry the same risks of dependence and that the pills lethal overdose of the past. But the risk exists, especially in people with liver disease or kidney.
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Study says 40% of cancers are preventable in the United Kingdom

A study released on Wednesday (7) shows that 40% of cancer cases in the UK could be avoided if patients avoid harmful health habits like smoking, drinking too much alcohol, having an unhealthy diet and keep up of weight.
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