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Use of Intravenous Prostaglandins as a Bridge Therapy for Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension Patients Awaiting Pulmonary Endarterectomy, The gold standard for treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) has been surgical pulmonary endarterectomy (PTE) [1]. However, pharmacologic therapy has been used in CTEPH patients in the following scenarios: (i) those deemed inoperable due to... Read more

Relationship Between Paracetamol Ingestion in Pregnancy and Effects on the Fetal Ductus Arteriosus, Recently, an interesting short report was published entitled: “Maternal paracetamol intake and fetal ductus arteriosus constriction or closure: A case series analysis” [1]. The researchers collected 25 cases reported in 12 papers in the literature which fulfilled the criteria for their analysis. The objective was to... Read more

The Experience of Congenital Intervention Unit, We condemn to our great professor Pr Dr Ragab Abdel-Salam, Professor of Cardiology, Zagazig University who found this promising unit. He is still the leader of our team. In the last 2 years, from December 2016 until now we succeeded to deal with 174 different cases of congenital heart diseases. 73 PDA cases, 30 ASD cases, 12 VSD cases were closed percutanously via di... Read more

HIPAA, PHI and Blogging, The exponential growth of social media and medical blogging in recent years at created a liability risk for physicians. This exponential growth makes it essential for physicians to understand the intersection of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and Internet blogging. The intersection of HIPPA and Internet bloggers is a complex overlapping subset with potentia... Read more