Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

The hospital's state-of-the-art American Heart and Vascular Institute performed a challenging surgery including open ...

Background Early heart failure (HF) diagnosis is crucial to ensure that optimal guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) is administered to reduce morbidity and mortality. Limited access to ...

For the almost 520,000 Americans who will undergo treatment this year, the process leaves little room for a full life. An ...

If a specific method were available for producing selective inhibition of the renal tubular reabsorption ... known to have hypertension and coronary-artery disease for 8 years.

Until disease has robbed the kidneys of 90 percent of their function, renal failure can often go unnoticed ... A vascular surgeon permanently connected the artery and vein in Thomas’s left forearm, ...

The patient had a normal appetite, no weight loss and no change in bowel habits. She had received several courses of analgesics and antispasmodics on an assumption of left renal colic and ... a ...

However, I was lucky to receive a kidney from a living related donor, my own loving sister. Receiving a kidney from a living ...

In a cohort study of 232 236 patients, patients with an eGFR of <15 mL/min/1.73 m 2 (not on dialysis) had a 2.5 times greater risk of in-hospital mortality after acute ischaemic stroke compared with ...

Paris-based sales company Alpha Violet has taken international sales on teen mental health drama “How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World,” a first feature by Austrian filmmaker ...

It can identify a significantly elevated velocity in the proximal subclavian artery (i.e., >300 cm/s), as well as a change in its waveform from the normal triphasic appearance to a more biphasic ...

Former President Joe Biden has continued a tradition started by President Ronald Reagan, who left behind a letter in the White House for his successor, George H.W. Bush. President Donald Trump ...