Word: arrhythmias
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...Doctors at the Corpus Christi hospital will be watching to make sure Mr. Whittington does not develop ventricular fibrillation, a more serious type of irregular heartbeat that can be fatal within minutes. "It will stay a minor problem as long as the arrhythmia stays under control, the heart muscle hasn't suffered permanent damage, he doesn't have a further ongoing heart attack, and there's no fluid building up around the heart," says Dr. Soumi Eachempati, a trauma surgeon at New York Hospital in New York City. Assuming nothing else goes wrong, however, Whittington should be able...
...Vice President Cheney is on an extended tour of the Middle East. They love him over there. He's known as Lawrence of Arrhythmia." --DAVID LETTERMAN...
...Estrada, a spokesman for the Boston Police Department (BPD). The specific cause of death is unknown, although the BPD has concluded, after performing a medical examination, that Lawrence died of natural causes. His mother, Diane Lawrence, told the Boston Herald last week that he probably died of a heart arrhythmia, which is a condition that causes an irregular heartbeat. Colin Riley, Boston University’s director of media relations, said that he could not release information about Lawrence’s death, because the medical examiner has not yet been able to determine a cause. “It?...
Casting more doubt on the power of fish oil, a European study finds that the supplement offers no protection against irregular heart rhythm in patients with implanted defibrillators. After taking 2 g of fish oil daily for a year, 30% of patients had life-threatening arrhythmia or died, compared with 33% of the placebo group...
...eating disorder can wreak havoc on the body at any age, but at midlife the damage can be swift: stress fractures from prolonged exercise, early osteoporosis from poor nutrition and heart arrhythmia brought on by being too thin and exercising to exhaustion...