Sinus infections themselves aren’t contagious, but the viruses that cause most of them are. Viral sinus infections often follow colds or flu, which spread through respiratory droplets when someone ...

Distinguishing between supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) and sinus tachycardia on an ECG is crucial for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. While both conditions present with rapid heart ...

Patients undergoing atrial fibrillation (AFib) ablation who were not properly anticoagulated and did not undergo preprocedural transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) were significantly more likely to ...

I had some random headaches and it felt like a typical sinus infection. 'When I went back to school to teach in September the headaches became more frequent. 'By the start of November I was ...

Specifically, they were lacking information about passive and active material behavior, which refers to how the heart tissue responds to forces and contractions, the viscosity of the tissue, and ...

This breakthrough device is designed to enable safe and precise access to the heart's surface (pericardial space) for both diagnostic and therapeutic interventions — without the use of an exposed ...

Patient otherwise had normal teeth, hair, and skin. On exam of the nails, multiple transverse white curvilinear bands were noted. The bands were separated by normal pink nail color (Figure 1).

A sinus infection is inflammation of the sinuses, which are the air spaces around your nose, eyes, cheeks, and forehead. It is also called sinusitis. When the sinuses are inflamed, drainage is blocked ...

The technique of accessing the space, initially developed for drainage of pericardial effusions by pericardiocentesis and subsequently modified for accessing a normal pericardial space, will also be ...

Allergic rhinitis (allergies or hay fever) and sinusitis (sinus infections) can cause similar symptoms, making them difficult to tell apart. However, they have different causes and treatments.

What gives? You might be fighting the wrong enemy entirely. Turns out, that “allergy attack” could actually be a sinus infection, or vice versa. With over 100 million Americans battling ...