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Off Pump Heart Surgery
Off Pump Heart Surgery Off pump heart surgery, usually off pump coronary artery bypass, is heart surgery done without the use of the cardiopulmonary bypass machine.
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Heart
The hollow, muscular organ responsible for pumping blood through the circulatory system.
Surgery
Treating diseases or other medical conditions by operating on a patient to remove or repair parts of the body.
Artery
A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
Bypass
A surgical procedure designed to increase blood flow to an organ or extremity that has narrowing or blockage of the blood supplying artery. Examples include coronary artery bypass surgery, aortic replacement, ABI (aorta-bi-iliac), ABF (aorto-bi-femoral), and femoral-popliteal bypass)
Cardiopulmonary
Having to do with both the heart and lungs.
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Approach to therapy whose centerpiece is megavitamin therapy. Orthomolecular medicine encompasses hair analysis, orthomolecular nutrition (a form of megavitamin therapy), and orthomolecular psychiatry. Linus Carl Pauling, Ph.D. (1901-1994), coined the word "orthomolecular." The prefix "ortho-" means "straight," and the implicit meaning of "orthomolecular" is "to straighten (correct) concentrations of specific molecules." The primary principle of orthomolecular medicine is that nutrition is the foremost consideration in diagnosis and treatment. Its purported focus is "normalizing" the "balance" of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and "similar" substances in the body.
Osteopuncture
Form of acupuncture named by Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D. In osteopuncture, the needle penetrates the periosteum (the membrane that covers bones) and is usually electrified. The acupuncture points of osteopuncture do not correlate with "meridian points."
OBOB mouse
(Obese-obese mouse) A variety of mouse that tends to be fat, and diabetic. A model for research on NIDDM.
Ophthalmopathy
Eye disease. There are several disorders that can affect vision in people with diabetes; the most severe is diabetic retinopathy.
Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)
A test to see if a person has diabetes.
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Open Heart Surgery
Any of a number of invasive cardiac (heart) surgical procedures.
Organ Preservation
Between procurement from a donor and transplant, organs require special methods of preservation. The length of time that organs and tissues can be kept outside the body vary, depending on the organ, the preservation fluid and the temperature.
Oxidation
A process in which free radicals released during metabolism damage cells and the DNA that control cell growth. Oxidation can accelerate the process of atherosclerosis by damaging particles of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, making them more potent as a plaque builder.
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