Publications by authors named "Frederick Nana Yeboah"
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- Acute coronary syndromes lead to high morbidity and mortality rates, despite improvements in treatments, emphasizing the need for prompt reperfusion therapy.
- Early diagnosis can be challenging, particularly in patients with atypical symptoms, such as diabetics, which may delay necessary intervention.
- A case study illustrates a 54-year-old male with multiple cardiovascular risk factors whose initial complaint of epigastric pain led to a delayed diagnosis of biventricular infarction after eight hours.
Pulmonary hypertension is a condition characterised by elevated pulmonary arterial pressures secondary to various aetiologies; the most common ones are left heart diseases. Similarly, an association between thyroid diseases and pulmonary hypertension has been reported in some cases, but the pathophysiological relationship has not been fully elucidated. Etiological investigation is an important step in the management of pulmonary hypertension and determines the appropriate treatment.
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