Beamon’s mother watched her 12-day-old baby’s curious eyes scan the hospital hallway last June as nurses took him toward the operating room. His family sobbed inside the Minneapolis hospital. Jayden’s ...

The pericardium is very tough and unforgiving ... All we know so far is that it has to do with pressure in the thoracic cavity. All of the conditions that cause pulsus paradoxus affect the pressure ...

Peritoneal washing (abdominopelvic washing) is a procedure used to diagnose whether certain types of cancer are present in the peritoneal cavity—the space between the membranes that line the abdomen.

Figure 1. (Left side) Schematic diagram of epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and coronary arteries. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is located in the pericardial cavity, directly in contact with the ...

If your home was built after the 1930s, the chances are that its external walls are made of two ‘skins’ with a gap of around 50mm between them. This means they are ‘cavity walls’ and the gap between ...

Moreover, stress perfusion imaging may be indicated if myocardial ischemia is suspected. Although transthoracic echocardiography remains the first-line imaging modality to study patients with known or ...