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Heart attack
By - Last updated: Monday, June 7, 2010
Heart attack (in English: Myocardial infarction, acute myocardial infarction, MI, AMI) is the interruption of blood flow, even if only for a moment, that led to the heart, and causes some heart cells to die.
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in adults in the United States. Each year, in the United States:
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Retinal Detachment
By - Last updated: Monday, December 15, 2008
Retinal Detachment Repair
The retina is a “Saran Wrap” thin membrane which is held to the insideback portion of the eyeball by a kind of suction force. In the front partof the eye the retina is firmly attached at a ring just behind the lenscalled the pars plana. In the back part of the eye, the [...]