Publications by authors named "S Rafla"
Background: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is associated with an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias and cardiovascular mortality. The study objective was to investigate the effect of LVH severity on the complexity and severity of ventricular arrhythmias among a subset of Egyptian hypertensive patients.
Results: The study cohort consisted of 60 hypertensive patients with LVH as diagnosed by echocardiography.
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a large increase in telemedicine encounters. Despite this rise in virtual visits, patients who speak non-English languages have experienced challenges accessing telemedicine. To improve health equity, medical education on telehealth delivery should include instruction on working with interpreters in telehealth.
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- The study investigates the financial impact of COVID-19 on hospital costs in the US compared to non-COVID patients, revealing higher average daily hospitalization costs for COVID patients.
- The research utilized data from Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Hospital and found that COVID patients had longer hospital stays and incurred significantly higher costs even after adjusting for various factors.
- The study concludes that caring for COVID patients results in increased direct hospital costs, influenced by staffing challenges and necessary infrastructure adjustments, and suggests further research is needed to confirm these results.
Arrhythmias in COVID-19 patients are associated with hypoxia, myocardial ischemia, cytokines, inflammation, electrolyte abnormalities, pro-arrhythmic or QT-prolonging medications, and underlying heart conditions such as severe congestive heart failure, inherited arrhythmia syndromes, or congenital heart conditions. In the pediatric population, multisystem inflammatory syndrome can lead to cardiac injury and arrhythmias. In addition, arrhythmias and cardiac arrests are most prevalent in the critically ill intensive care unit COVID-19 patient population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Radiographic loosening is frequently seen around the radial head (RH) implant. The hypothesis of this study was that radiographic loosening will be more frequent in patients in which the RH prosthesis was implanted due to elbow trauma leading to instability that required lateral collateral ligament repair (LCL).
Materials And Methods: A retrospective review of the patients who had RH implantation between 2012 and 2019 was performed.