Surgery conducted to remove blood
clots from lungs
Coimbatore: A
27-year-old youth was given a new lease of life by the surgeons of Kovai
Medical Center and Hospital (KMCH)
here by successfully removing life threatening blood clots from the lungs.
KMCH Chairman Dr Nalla G Palanisamy told reporters here today that the youth,
hailing from Kalveerampalayam in the city, could barely walk across the room
and with shortness of breath, as he couldn't effectively oxygenerate his blood
and he faced the risk of heart failure, he said.
The youth was diagnosed with rare life threatening blood
clots blocking pulmonary arteries.
Dr Prashant Vaijyanath, Director of Cardiac Surgery, KMCH,
said that he took up the peculiar case as a challenge and successfully
performed PTE surgery, reportedly for the first time, with Delta Stream--SMART
Cannula ECMO support for 48 hours.
The man was successfully weaned from extra corporeal membrane
oxygen and as well as ventilator support and now the youth was doing very well,
Prashant said.
In the complex eight-hour open procedure, surgeons stopped
the patient's heart, hooked him up to a heart-lung bypass pump, and cooled him
to 25 degree celsius, in order to reduce his body's need for oxygen.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
23.05.2015
Infections can also affect your IQ
London: In addition to
harming your physical heath, severe infections of any type can affect your
mental capacity as measured on an intelligence quotient (IQ) scale, a new
research has found.
The researchers found that infections in the brain affected the cognitive
ability the most, but many other types of infections severe enough to require
hospitalisation can also impair a patient's cognitive ability.
"Our research shows a correlation between
hospitalisation due to infection and impaired cognition corresponding to an IQ
score of 1.76 lower than the average," said senior researcher Michael
Eriksen Benros from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anyone can suffer from an infection, for example in their
stomach, urinary tract or skin and the results of this study suggests that a
patient's distress does not necessarily end once the infection has been
treated.
"It seems that the immune system itself can affect the
brain to such an extent that the person's cognitive ability measured by an IQ
test will also be impaired many years after the infection has been cured,"
Benros explained.
In the largest study of its type, 190,000 people in Denmark,
born between 1974 and 1994, participated. They had their IQ assessed between
2006 and 2012. Thirty five percent of these individuals had a hospital contact
with infections before the IQ testing was conducted.
People with five or more hospital contacts with infections
had an IQ score of 9.44 lower than the average.
"Infections can affect the brain directly, but also
through peripheral inflammation, which affects the brain and our mental
capacity," Benros pointed out.
The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
23.05.2015
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the
quality which guarantees all others
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