Acronyms, dictionaries and tons of reference sources

[Nancy]

http://www.mtdesk.com/swg.shtml

http://www.clinicalculator.com/homepage.htm

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

http://www.chfpatients.com/ph.htm#glossary

http://www.chfpatients.com/glossary_2.htm

http://www.chfpatients.com/glossary.htm

http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/

http://www.musc.edu/chp-clin/ect/glossary.htm

http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?t=9276&p=~br,IHW|~st,408|~r,WSIHW000|~b,*|

http://www.heartsurgeons.com/gl1.html

http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/

http://www.chfpatients.com/links.htm#dictionaries

http://labtestsonline.org/

http://www9.biostr.washington.edu/da.html
interactive anatomy

http://cvsurg.med.nyu.edu/index.html
cardiothoracic surgery

[bvdr]

Excellent resources Nancy, thanks.

You don't happen to have any specific for rheumatic heart disease do you?

[Nancy]

Hi Betty-

I have several articles on rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. I have been searching for a long time for articles which also mention rheumatic fever, pulmonary hypertension and atrial fibrillation.

I have found quite a few mentioning rheumatic fever induced mitral stenosis which can then cause pulmonary hypertension and atrial fibrillation, all of which Joe has.

Most doctors I have asked about pulmonary hypertension and whether it can be caused by RH, have told me no. But from these articles, the answer is clearly yes, although it is a progression thing, rather than a direct thing.

I will post them separately.