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The risk of pregnancy for women with congenital heart disease

The risk of pregnancy for women with congenital heart disease ranges widely depending upon the kind of heart lesion and associated systemic complications.. For some women, their risk is no different from that of the general population. For others it carries a prohibitive risk of death for the woman and/or the baby. For these women, birth control is more than just a method to conveniently space babies. It may prevent a life-threatening pregnancy. Options available to patients with congenital heart lesions

Max Team In Obstetrics And Gynaecology

Nov 14 , 2018 | 2 min read

ART in women with cardiac condition

Women with heart disease are known to have an increased risk of suffering medical complications compared to healthy women and it has been seen that this risk increases when women with heart problems undergo IVF. A retrospective study done by Natalie Dayan et al. evaluated this risk for the first time and published the results in JACC in 2014, confirming that it exists. Twenty women with mean age 37 ± 4 years, with 22 pregnancies. Out of these 15 pregnancies (68%) occurred in women with congenital heart prob

Max Team In Cardiac Sciences

Nov 14 , 2018 | 4 min read

IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) Treatment Failure Cause Heart Problems

Who would have thought that IVF (in vitro fertilization) would have anything to do with the heart? Emotionally yes, for there is heart ache when an IVF cycle fails, heart break with repeated failures and the heart literally burst with joy when an infertile couple sets eyes on their miracle baby! That is affects the heart of both, mother and child pathologically too, has been shown in recent studies. Baby It is a well known fact that there is an increased incidence of birth defects in babies born after

Max Team In Infertility & IVF

Nov 14 , 2018 | 1 min read

Immunotherapy and cancer patients

Immunotherapy has the potential to change the way all cancer types are treated and cured. Understanding immunotherapy is easy. Immunotherapy is type of treatment that works with your body”s immune system to fight cancer and kill cancer cells. The big question is if the body's immune system can recognise pathogens,mico-organisms and viruses as a threat to body and kills them but why it does not kill cancer cells. Good cells should kill bad cells but this does not happen. Does that mean cancer cells

Dr. Waseem Abbas In Cancer Care / Oncology

Nov 14 , 2018 | 2 min read

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Simple Home Remedies For Loose Motions

Loose motions or Diarrhea is one of the most common ailments across every age group – from infants and mothers to the elderly. Diarrhea is the frequent passage of watery or loose stools across irregular intervals. There are many possible causes of Diarrhea. These include allergies, food poisoning, infections, and stress. As such, Diarrhea is merely a symptom of one of many possible causes. Most of the time, loose motions is not a serious problem and can be treated at home. Below, we've outlined 3 simple h

Dr. Manoj Ranka In Internal Medicine

Feb 22 , 2018 | 2 min read

Indian Diet Plan In Pregnancy

To make sure that what you eat helps your body and also helps you stay interested, spread out your food through the day by following different food ideas. You can mix and match the following depending on how much you can eat and whether you are vegetarian or non vegetarian.

Dr. Neera Aggarwal In Obstetrics And Gynaecology Nutrition And Dietetics

Nov 07 , 2020 | 2 min read

PCOD and PCOS - Symptoms, Causes, Differences & Treatment

Polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD) or polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a syndrome that has taken modern world by storm. Polycystic ovarian disease or syndrome is a very common disease heard in today's younger generation. It is a must that young girls understand this disease at an early stage as well as its causes and future implications. It is a hormonal disorder with: Imbalance of the two female hormones estrogen and progesterone with estrogen taking the upper hand – menstrual irregularities, infer

Dr. Kamna Nagpal In Obstetrics And Gynaecology

Jun 30 , 2016 | 2 min read

Balanced Diet - Definition, Importance, Benefits & Diet Chart

A balanced diet is a diet that contains the right proportion of different food types so that your body gets the required carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, proteins, minerals.

Ritika Samaddar In Dietetics

Jan 24 , 2022 | 2 min read

Indian Youth in the radar of heart diseases due to diabetes

Diabetes is caused when the blood glucose levels in the body is higher than normal. Body breaks the food into glucose and carries it to all the cells of the body which is converted to energy using insulin (hormone). There are two types of diabetes namely Type 1 – when body doesn't make enough insulin and type 2- when body doesn't use insulin properly. The higher the person's blood sugar level is the higher the chances of developing heart diseases. Compared to people who do not have diabetes, people havin

Max Team In Cardiac Sciences

Nov 14 , 2018 | 3 min read

Usg of IVF treatment in women with heart disease practice caution

IVF is considered a routine medical practice in management of infertility since introduced in 1978.The technique has evolved and indications expanded. Although success rate of IVF has increased especially over past decade, data regarding its use in women with heart disease is debatable. Research has shown that women who gave birth after recieving fertility therapy had double the risk of cardiac disease or death in subsequent decade compared to women who gave birth without therapy. Well known risk fact

Max Team In Infertility & IVF

Nov 14 , 2018 | 2 min read

Common Biomarker Tests Identify Risk For Heart Disease and Stroke In Seemingly Healthy Patients

Biomarkers that predict heart diseases can predict strokes too. That's because both stroke and heart diseases have same underlying pathology. Besides being leading causes of death, both stroke and heart diseases share some four or five common risk factors too. These include smoking, high cholesterol, Diabetes and high blood pressure. However, people who are at a borderline of either of these risk factors are prone to suffer both heart disease and stroke, also known as cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cer

Dr. Naveen Bhamri In Cardiac Sciences

Nov 14 , 2018 | 3 min read

When Cancer Runs in your Family?

Do you have a member with cancer in your family? [Image result for CANCER RUNS IN YOUR FAMILY] If yes, than u must be worried for your risk of having the same, is 'it? Cancer is one disease that touches all of us in one or other way. Yes, cancer happens due to mutations in genes, but it doesn't mean that it will always be inherited or passed on to other family members. Confused? Let me explain- there are two types of mutation in genes: genetic and somatic. Somatic mutations (also called as spora

Max Team In Cancer Care / Oncology

Nov 05 , 2018 | 1 min read

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