http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The clot-busting drug tenecteplase prevents death or circulatory collapse in a subgroup of patients with a blood clot in the lungs and appears to be especially useful in patients younger than 75, according to research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-clot-busting-drug-benefits-intermediate-risk-patients.html Cardiology Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:59:46 EST news282304777 While amyloid imaging may now be most associated with detecting plaques in the brain, it has the potential to change the way cardiac amyloidosis is diagnosed. According to first-of-its-kind research published in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, positron emission tomography (PET) with 11C-PIB can positively visualize amyloid deposits in the heart. Currently there is no noninvasive test available for specific diagnosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-amyloid-imaging-cardiac-amyloidosis.html Medical research Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:34:36 EST news279200067 Unfortunately, newspaper articles about young athletes dying suddenly on the field are not unheard of. Such reports fuel discussions about compulsory screening, for example of young footballers, for heart failure. Research by scientists from Ghent (VIB/UGent) and Italy will benefit these screening methods. They have discovered a link between mutations in a certain gene and the heart condition Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-discovery-screening-sudden-cardiac-death.html Cardiology Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:39:58 EST news274531181 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in a new study that thickening of the heart's right ventricle is associated with an increased risk of heart failure and cardiovascular death in patients without clinical cardiovascular disease at baseline. The study is published online ahead of print in the journal Circulation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-thickening-heart-ventricle-foreshadow-failure.html Cardiology Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:38:25 EST news266481468 UCLA researchers have found that the hormone estrogen may help reverse advanced pulmonary hypertension, a rare and serious condition that affects 2 to 3 million individuals in the U.S., mostly women, and can lead to heart failure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-estrogen-treatment-reverse-severe-pulmonary.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:07:13 EST news235310805 A new study into the causes of leakage in one of the heart's most complex valve structures could lead to improved diagnosis and treatment of the condition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-vitro-tricuspid-valve-mechanics-uncovers.html Other Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:10:13 EST news232102443 Two-year-old Owen Stark came to St. Louis Children's Hospital in the summer of 2010 near death from heart failure and dangerously high blood pressure in his lungs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-washington-university-surgeons-successfully-artificial.html Other Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:11:24 EST news227455856 The size and pumping ability of the right side of the heart differs by age, gender and race/ethnicity, according to the first large imaging study of the right ventricle. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-size-strength-heart-side-differs.html Cardiology Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:28:00 EST news226596463 German scientists have found a way of treating pulmonary arterial hypertension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-lungs-pressure.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 05 May 2011 10:51:09 EST news223811411