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Off-pump surgery
A technique for heart surgery designed to avoid use of the heart-lung machine. The technique permits surgery on multiple vessels within the heart by mechanically stabilizing it. Off-pump surgery is minimally invasive, as compared to…
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- Speech therapy The treatment of speech and communication disorders. The approach used depends on the disorder. It may…
- Essential fatty acid An unsaturated fatty acid that is essential to human health, but cannot be manufactured in the body. There…
- Lentigines When there is one lentigo, there are usually more lentigines
- Diabetic air travel A concern for patients with diabetes is flying with medications and supplies. Letters from doctors are not…
- Artery disease, coronary See: Coronary artery disease
- Ribonucleic acid (RNA) A combination of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein. In autoimmune diseases, antibodies can form against…
- Diverticulitis, bleeding from Diverticular bleeding typically occurs intermittently over several days. Colonoscopy is usually performed to…
- Chalazion Chalazion: A cyst of the little glands in the eyelids that make a lubricant which they discharge through tiny…
- Mountain sickness >If possible, don't fly or drive to high altitude. Start below 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) and walk up. >If…
- Surgery, cataract See: Cataract surgery