Heart Failure: Know Your Baselines

To manage your heart failure symptoms, you need to know what's normal for you. Then you can watch for changes. Use this chart to help you measure your symptoms.

Having Surgical Thrombectomy

Surgical thrombectomy is surgery to remove a blood clot from 1 of your blood vessels. The blood clot may be in an artery or vein in your arm, leg, or another part of your body. It may block the flow of blood to your tissues or organs.

Treatment for Sixth Nerve Palsy (Child)

Sixth nerve palsy is a problem with eye movement. It happens because of a problem with the sixth cranial nerve. In some cases sixth nerve palsy is present at birth (congenital). It can also result from other problems that occur later on. Treatment will depend on the cause.

Having a Thoracic Epidural Injection

A thoracic epidural injection is a shot that helps ease pain in your upper to middle back (thoracic) area. Medicine is injected into the area around your spinal cord.

Having Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF)

A fusion is a surgery to join two or more bones together. During a transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF), this is done on the spine. Two of the bones of your back (vertebrae) are joined together, and one of your spinal disks is removed.

Treatment for Selective Mutism

Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder. It's when a child can't speak in certain settings but can speak fine in others. Learn about treatment for this condition.