http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Heart bypass surgery is considered the gold standard for most patients with left main coronary artery disease, one of the most serious types of heart disease and one that affects thousands. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-angioplasty-stents-safe-long-term-low-risk.html Cardiology Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:34:14 EST news227964823 A small, retrospective study determined that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was safe in patients with significant coronary artery disease (CAD) who were referred for liver transplantation. Larger studies are needed to determine the effectiveness of angioplasty in patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD). Details of the study are available in the July issue of Liver Transplantation, published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-angioplasty-feasible-liver-transplantation-candidates.html Cardiology Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:33:51 EST news227954020 Only about 10 percent of patients with a certain type of heart attack who need to be transferred to another hospital for a PCI (procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) are transferred within the recommended time of 30 minutes, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-heart-attack-patients-procedure-hospital.html Cardiology Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:33:22 EST news227892792 Among patients who have had an ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), type 2 diabetes was associated with an increased risk of recurrent stroke or cardiovascular events, but metabolic syndrome was not, according to a report published Online First today by Archives of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-diabetes-linked-higher-cv-problems.html Neuroscience Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:00:01 EST news227199587 New research shows that elevated levels of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) or I (cTnI) in patients who had angioplasty indicate a higher risk of all-cause mortality and long-term adverse events such as heart attack. Routine monitoring of these protein levels following nonemergent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) could improve long-term outcomes for these patients. Details of the analysis are available online in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, a peer-reviewed journal of The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-elevated-protein-cardiac-muscles-mortality.html Cardiology Fri, 13 May 2011 03:31:12 EST news224476232 Intravenous administration of epoetin alfa, a product that stimulates red blood cell production, to patients with heart attack who were undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), did not provide reduction in the size of the heart muscle involved and was associated with higher rates of adverse cardiovascular events, according to a study in the May 11 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-outcomes-erythropoietin-heart-patients-pci.html Medical research Tue, 10 May 2011 16:25:29 EST news224263508 A NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center review of almost 500,000 cardiac cases nationally shows that the clinically indicated medical therapy reported in a widely publicized study was lost in translation to real-world heart care after its publication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-patients-seldom-optimal-medical-therapy.html Cardiology Tue, 10 May 2011 16:23:55 EST news224263398 The availability of an in-house, around-the-clock interventional cardiology team dramatically decreases the time it takes to restore blood flow to heart attack patients, according to data presented this week. These findings were reported by researchers from Loyola University Health System (LUHS) at the American College of Cardiology annual meeting in New Orleans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-loyola-on-site-cardiology-team-heart.html Other Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:30:37 EST news221416222