News tagged with coronary blood vessels
Stents disrupt blood flow
(Medical Xpress)—A researcher at ETH Zurich is designing a realistic artery model with an implanted stent and is using a computer to simulate the blood flow through the stent. In doing so he is uncovering ...
Cardiology
May 06, 2013 |
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'Off-the-shelf' artificial blood vessels show promise
(HealthDay)—Artificial blood vessels may one day reduce some complications of dialysis treatment in people with kidney failure, according to the results of early research in animals.
Cardiology
Apr 24, 2013 |
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A protein enables cardiovascular risk assessment
Researchers at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have managed to predict the probability of a cardiovascular patient suffering a heart attack, stroke or arterial occlusion within three months. In the long-term, ...
Cardiology
Apr 04, 2013 |
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Stem cell source an important factor, impacting ability to treat myocardial infarction
When a research team from Denmark and Sweden compared the therapeutic capabilities of adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) versus bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMSCs) obtained from a single 84 year-old male donor with ischemic ...
Medical research
Feb 13, 2013 |
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Rebuilding blood vessels through gene therapy
(Medical Xpress)—Diagnosed with severe coronary artery disease, a group of patients too ill for or not responding to other treatment options decided to take part in a clinical trial testing angiogenic gene therapy to help ...
Cardiology
Dec 21, 2012 |
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A urine test for Kawasaki disease
A set of proteins detected in urine by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital may prove to be the first biomarkers for Kawasaki disease, an uncommon but increasingly prevalent disease which causes inflammation of blood ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 20, 2012 |
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Risk of myocardial infarction and re-operation is greater than for drug-coated stents
If narrowed or blocked coronary vessels have to be widened or opened, a vascular support (stent) is usually inserted. Drug-coated stents are preferred for patients at high risk of renewed narrowing of vessels (restenosis). ...
Cardiology
Nov 14, 2012 |
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Nationwide study examines common heart procedures
(HealthDay)—Risk factors for heart disease—such as being overweight, having high cholesterol levels and smoking—are common in patients who undergo angioplasty and stent procedures to open blocked coronary ...
Cardiology
Oct 18, 2012 |
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Fish oils healthier for women's hearts than men's, study finds
(Medical Xpress)—When it comes to matters of a healthy heart women may benefit more from eating oily fish than men, a new study has found.
Health
Oct 12, 2012 |
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Diagnostic test shows potential to noninvasively identify significant coronary artery disease
Among patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease, use of a method that applies computational fluid dynamics to derive certain data from computed tomographic (CT) angiography demonstrated improved diagnostic ...
Cardiology
Aug 26, 2012 |
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Mental stress may be harder on women's hearts
Coronary artery disease continues to be a major cause of death in the U.S., killing hundreds of thousands of people per year. However, this disease burden isn't evenly divided between the sexes; significantly more men than ...
Cardiology
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Fat outside of arteries may influence onset of coronary artery disease
Researchers at UC have confirmed that fat surrounding the outside of arteries in humans—particularly the left coronary artery—may influence the onset of coronary artery disease, or atherosclerosis, which is the ...
Cardiology
Apr 20, 2012 |
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Complications in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention tend to occur within first 30 days
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also known as coronary angioplasty or angioplasty, is a procedure used to treat acute coronary syndromes. PCI involves opening a blocked blood vessel by threading and inflating a ...
Cardiology
Mar 24, 2012 |
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Heart doctors repair coronary aneurysm without open surgery
(Medical Xpress) -- Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center interventional cardiologists have, for the first time, repaired a large coronary artery aneurysm with stent-assisted coil embolization without ...
Surgery
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Gelatin-based nanoparticle treatment may be a more effective clot buster
A targeted, nanoparticle gelatin-based clot-busting treatment dissolved significantly more blood clots than a currently used drug in an animal study of acute coronary syndrome presented at the American Heart Association's ...
Cardiology
Nov 14, 2011 |
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