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Shining light into the heart!
Can we use light to tell us things that we previously could not? Welcome to Spectroscopy & the work done by our Spectromix lab. Every...
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Jan 10, 20241 min read
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Better Outcomes with Hesrt Surger
Cardiopulmonary Bypass or CPB entails the use of the heart lung machine. This machine performs the work of the heart and lungs, thus...
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Jan 6, 20241 min read
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Bleeding and Clotting!
yes Increasingly, we are seeing more patients with bleedingt problems, partly because the mainstay of many cardiovascular treatments UICj...
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Jan 6, 20241 min read
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Better Heart Health
Making our hearts work better is an ongoing passion. This is an image of a minimally invasive off-pump bypass procedure. We first started...
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Jan 1, 20241 min read
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Happy New Year!
May this be a transformative year for us all! As we contemplate cardiovascular disease, practice patterns & new developments it might be...
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Jan 1, 20241 min read
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Fat in the Heart! How do we find it?
As surgeons we can see fat on the inside of the body! Most others, from physicians to radiologists to lay people just know about fat...
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Oct 22, 20234 min read
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https://www.heartspectrum.net/post/fat-in-the-heart
Please look at our exciting findings with multi-modal spectroscopic evaluation of the heart. Yes fat in the heart! Lipids in the Heart –...
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Oct 5, 20233 min read
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Emerging from the Chrysalis...
For those of you who remember your biology, the Chrysalis the is the hard case enclosing the larva of the butterfly before it emerges...
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Dec 13, 20202 min read
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My mentor John Hargrave, AO, MBE
John Charles Hargrave was a wonderfully inspiring human being and I am so glad to have been touched by him. John Charles Hargrave, MD...
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Aug 22, 20206 min read
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The best 2nd conduit in coronary bypass graft surgery
Lead up statement: This study reports the 10 year outcomes of a patient-data level pooled analysis of randomized trials comparing the...
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Jul 24, 20204 min read
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Dealing with Evidence!
You have probably heard about EBM (Evidence Based Medicine), and those of you who are not doctors probably presume that a lot of what we...
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Aug 18, 20183 min read
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Just a small hole in the groin!
If one was given the choice between a small hole in the groin, compared to a great big crack down the middle of the chest, there is no...
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Aug 12, 20183 min read
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Not splitting the chest!
The late Dr Louis Cohen was a delightful man, and an incredibly caring cardiologist with a passion for squash, who was very well known at...
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Aug 11, 20182 min read
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Plating the rib?
Yes, why not? Every other bone that is broken in the body is internally fixed with plates and screws. I am sure the medical members of...
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Aug 8, 20182 min read
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Closing the chest
Lets continue... The median or midline sternotomy was first studied and shown to be effective in goats in 1897. It was another 50 years...
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Aug 1, 20182 min read
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Starting off again...
Lets start with the sternum. This dagger shaped breast bone is the most commonly fractured bone in the body - because of heart surgery....
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Jul 31, 20181 min read
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Welcome!
Hello and welcome to my blog! Be sure to check this page in the future for updates, videos and blog posts. Thanks for visiting!
Dr. Jai Raman
May 21, 20171 min read
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