News tagged with heart muscle damage


Researcher advancing motor neuron studies

A University of Connecticut researcher is advancing the understanding of the devastating inherited condition known as spinal muscular atrophy.

Neuroscience created Jan 29, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Inhibiting CaMKII enzyme activity could lead to new therapies for heart disease

University of Iowa researchers have previously shown that an enzyme called CaM kinase II plays a pivotal role in the death of heart cells following a heart attack or other conditions that damage or stress heart muscle. Loss ...

Cardiology created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cholesterol study points to new drugs

(Medical Xpress)—Insight into how our bodies make cholesterol could lead to treatments with fewer side-effects than existing drugs.

Cardiology created Aug 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists first to see trafficking of immune cells in beating heart

Blood flow to the heart often is interrupted during a heart attack or cardiac surgery. But when blood flow resumes, the heart may still falter. That's because collateral damage can occur as blood re-enters ...

Medical research created Jul 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blood test predicts death from heart problems after surgery

(Medical Xpress) -- A blood test can predict whether patients are likely to die of a heart attack in the month after surgery, according to an international study involving thousands of patients.

Surgery created Jul 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find new cause of cardiac damage after heart attack in type 1 diabetes

After people with type 1 diabetes have a heart attack, their long-term chance of suffering even more heart damage skyrockets. But the reason has long puzzled scientists. Now researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified ...

Cardiology created Jun 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study: Heart damage after chemo linked to stress in cardiac cells

Blocking a protein in the heart that is produced under stressful conditions could be a strategy to prevent cardiac damage that results from chemotherapy, a new study suggests.

Cardiology created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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 created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fumarate greatly reduces heart attack damage in mice

(Medical Xpress) -- Boosting levels of the simple compound fumarate in mice significantly reduces damage from a heart attack, an Oxford University-led study has shown.

Medical research created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Injectable gel could repair tissue damaged by heart attack

(Medical Xpress) -- University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a new injectable hydrogel that could be an effective and safe treatment for tissue damage caused by heart attacks.

Cardiology created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Pancreatic hormone linked with severe heart disease in obese and diabetic patients

Severe heart damage in people who are obese and diabetic is linked with a pancreatic hormone called amylin, UC Davis researchers have found.

Cardiology created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study shows balloon pump use prior to angioplasty does not reduce heart muscle damage

Inserting intra-aortic balloon pumps prior to angioplasty in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) does not reduce the scope of heart muscle damage, a condition referred to as infarct size, according to a new study ...

Cardiology created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

FDA announces new limits on high-dose simvastatin (Zocor)

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced new limitations to the use of high-dose simvastatin, due to the increased risk of muscle pain and weakness (myopathy) and in rare cases, kidney damage and ...

Cardiology created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Biomedical engineers patch a heart using novel tissue cell therapy

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself. This breakthrough, ...

Cardiology created May 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast