Heart disease surgery
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Last reviewed: April 2022
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Discover how to recover well after heart valve surgery.
Read more on St Vincent's Hospital Heart Health website
Information about travelling with a heart condition or after heart surgery.
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Information about heart valve repair and replacement surgery, including how to prepare and what happens during and after the surgery.
Read more on St Vincent's Hospital Heart Health website
Information about heart transplant, including how to prepare and what happens during and after the surgery.
Read more on St Vincent's Hospital Heart Health website
Discover how to recover well after cardiac bypass surgery.
Read more on St Vincent's Hospital Heart Health website
Information about cardiac bypass surgery, including how to prepare and what happens during and after the procedure.
Read more on St Vincent's Hospital Heart Health website
Information about a Bentall Procedure, including how to prepare and what happens during and after the surgery.
Read more on St Vincent's Hospital Heart Health website
Learn how to recover well after a heart transplant.
Read more on St Vincent's Hospital Heart Health website
There are treatments for heart failure, but for some people a transplant is the best option. Heart transplantation is generally a successful procedure for advanced heart disease.
Read more on myDr website
Children's health information fact sheet about infective endocarditis.
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Why and when to get tested for LDL cholesterol
Read more on Pathology Tests Explained website
Authors' conclusions: This systematic review indicates that listening to music may have a beneficial effect on anxiety in persons with CHD, especially those with a myocardial infarction
Read more on Cochrane (Australasian Centre) website
Congestive heart failure is not a disease; rather it’s a cascade of events and ill-conceived compensatory efforts made by the body in an attempt to maintain an adequate ejection of blood from the left ventricle. The heart is doing its best… but in the long run, it’s making a bad job worse.
Read more on Ausmed Education website
Why and when to get tested for creatine kinase (CK)
Read more on Pathology Tests Explained website
In the past, a doctor had to be with a person to diagnose a heart attack, but a new service that is being introduced in NSW allows an ECG to be sent quickly to a specialist doctor who may be many kilometres away. This means that people are treated much faster and, in many cases, even before they see a doctor.
Read more on ACI - Agency for Clinical Innovation website
Why and when to get tested for CRP
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Why and when to get tested for heparin anti-Xa
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Platelets are vital for normal blood clotting
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A blood clot is a semisolid mass of blood components (platelets, proteins and cells) that clumps together in a process known as coagulation. Harmful blood clots affect 30 000 Australians every year. They are potentially fatal if left untreated and account for about 10% of hospital deaths.
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Describes how the prothrombin time (PT) test is used, why the PT test is done, and what the results might mean.
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