News tagged with balloon angioplasty
Related topics: coronary artery , heart attack , myocardial infarction , coronary artery disease
MS patients did not benefit from CCSVI intervention
The first controlled clinical trial to test the safety and efficacy of interventional endovascular therapy on the symptoms and progression of multiple sclerosis has found that the intervention, sometimes called the "liberation ...
Neuroscience
Mar 15, 2013 |
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Administration of clopidogrel prior to PCI associated with reduction in major cardiac events
Among patients scheduled for a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), pretreatment with the antiplatelet agent clopidogrel ...
Cardiology
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Infusion of drug into the coronary artery may help reduce size of heart damage after heart attack
Administration of a bolus dose of the anticoagulant drug abciximab into the coronary artery involved in causing a certain type of heart attack among patients who were undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention and also ...
Cardiology
Mar 25, 2012 |
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Analysis does not support genetic test before use of anti-clotting drug
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that a certain type of genetic testing (for the genotype CYP2C19) be considered before prescribing the drug clopidogrel to identify individuals who may ...
Genetics
Dec 27, 2011 |
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Stents may reduce heart attacks by delivering downstream medication
Researchers at Cleveland Clinic have discovered that cardiac patients receiving medicated stents -- a procedure that occurs often when blood vessels are blocked -- have a lower likelihood of suffering heart attacks or developing ...
Medical research
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Lessons from major heart trial need implementation
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 ...
Cardiology
May 10, 2011 |
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Drug-coated stents prevent leg amputation
Drug-eluting stents can keep clogged leg arteries open, preventing amputation of the leg, suggests research being presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 38th Annual Scientific Meeting in New Orleans.
Cardiology
Apr 14, 2013 |
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Major bleeding following PCI associated with increased risk of death
In a study that included 3.3 million percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) procedures, major bleeding after PCI was associated ...
Cardiology
Mar 12, 2013 |
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Rates of procedures such as angioplasty lower in states with public reporting of outcomes
In an analysis that included nearly 100,000 Medicare patients who had experienced a heart attack, the use of a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open ...
Cardiology
Oct 09, 2012 |
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Study examines factors associated with improvement in survival from heart attack in France
The overall rate of death in patients hospitalized with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI; a certain pattern on an electrocardiogram following a heart attack) decreased from 1995 to 2010 in France, with possible ...
Cardiology
Aug 27, 2012 |
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Use of newer-generation drug-releasing stent results in lower rate of adverse cardiac events
Compared with a bare-metal stent, the use of a stent with a biodegradable polymer that releases the drug biolimus resulted in a lower rate of major adverse cardiac events at 1 year among patients with ST-segment elevation ...
Cardiology
Aug 21, 2012 |
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Use of drug-eluting stents varies widely; Modestly correlated with coronary artery restenosis risk
A study based on more than 1.5 million percutaneous coronary intervention procedures (such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement to open narrowed coronary arteries) suggests that the use of drug-eluting stents varies ...
Cardiology
Jul 09, 2012 |
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FDA issues warning on controversial MS treatment
(HealthDay) -- Doctors and patients need to be aware of the potential risk of injuries and death associated with an experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis called liberation therapy, the U.S. Food and ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 10, 2012 |
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Tears during coronary angioplasty: Where are they and how do they affect patient outcomes?
Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital discovered that blockages in the right coronary artery and those in bending areas of the coronary artery are the most common places for dissection, a tear in the artery ...
Cardiology
Mar 24, 2012 |
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Stenting dramatically improves treatment access for dialysis patients
Kidney failure patients on dialysis derive long-term benefit from the minimally invasive placement of a stent that improves the function of dialysis access grafts, according to 12-month trial results being presented at the ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 15, 2013 |
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