Uses PPIs are used for the prevention and treatment of ulcers in the stomach, esophagus, or duodenum that are caused or exacerbated by stomach acids. People in USA receive approximately 21 million prescriptions annually. Worldwide, $13.6 billion worth of PPIs…
Risk Common illness among children and young adults. Primary chronic sequelae is RHD. Worldwide estimate is over 15 million cases of RHD, with 282,000 new cases and 233,000 deaths annually. Up to 1% of all school-age children in Africa, Asia,…
Acknowledgments The authors thank Drs. David Callans, Lee Fleisher, and Sean Kennedy for their comments on a draft of this chapter. In the electrophysiology laboratory, procedures are performed to diagnose and treat abnormal cardiac rhythms. These procedures can be accomplished…
The past two decades have seen advances in medical technology that now allow physicians to treat a patient with noninvasive or minimally invasive procedures. Patients who would have been subjected to sternotomy, thoracotomy, major vascular surgery, or laparotomy just a…