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The FDA has updated labels on the top two COVID-19 vaccines to warn of a rare heart side effect, mostly seen in young men.
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A total of 25% of all tumors and cysts of the heart and pericardium are malignant – 33% are angiosarcomas, 20% are rhabdomyosarcomas, 15% are mesotheliomas and 10% are fibrosarcomas or other ...
Aim: Evaluating the inflammatory process of the bovine pericardium in comparison with the inflammatory process of synthetic polypropylene mesh. Method: Bovine pericardium mesh and polypropylene mesh ...
Removing the pericardium creates no lasting health issues, but the procedure, called a pericardiectomy, is a delicate one. "It's almost like the heart is a hard-boiled egg, and we're peeling off ...
Doctors at St. Barbara's Hospital in Sosnowiec, in Poland's southern Silesia region, say they have successfully used bovine pericardium—a membrane surrounding the heart of a cow—to reconstruct ...
The sheet of tissue covering the heart, called the pericardium, is very close to the pleura. So in some people pleural mesothelioma may also spread into the pericardium. The diagram below shows the ...
A rare acute side effect is inflammation of the cardiac muscle or the pericardium in young men following mRNA vaccination. In terms of other cardiovascular effects, there has only been limited ...
Original Article Archive Adherent Pericardium and Pick's Syndrome Authors: HOWARD B. SPRAGUE, M.D., HOBART A. BURCH, M.D., and PAUL D. WHITE, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published September 15 ...