Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy following aortic surgery

Article Abstract:

Joint disease marked by joint enlargement called hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) may be one of the first signs of infectious complications associated with heart bypass surgery. A 67 year old male patient who had had heart bypass surgery five years previously developed painful HOA. Further testing revealed a Streptococcus milleri infection in the bypass tissue that was treated with antibiotics. However, the patient died from infection and heart complications.

Joints, Infection, Joints (Anatomy), Complications and side effects, Coronary artery bypass

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Supraventricular Tachycardia in Infancy

Article Abstract:

Esophageal electrophysiology (EP) test results do not adequately predict which infants with supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) will require medical treatment and which will not. SVT is a heart rhythm defect that often resolves without treatment. Researchers tested 33 infants with SVT and followed their progress until one year of age. Twenty-seven infants required medication, and five did not. All infants had absent or controlled SVT by one year of age.

United States, Care and treatment, Prognosis, Arrhythmia, Electrophysiology, Arrhythmia in children, Pediatric cardiology, Supraventricular tachycardia

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