Echo of health: Students design noninvasive test for pediatric heart patients
(Medical Xpress)—It has been said that the heart sometimes sees what is invisible to the eye, but thanks to four Rice University mathematics students, the echocardiograms of patients at Texas Children's ...
Cardiology
Apr 10, 2013 |
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Age and severity of heart failure associated with impairment in verbal memory
(Medical Xpress) -- Older patients with lower rates of left ventricular ejection fraction (a measure of how well the left ventricle of the heart pumps with each contraction) appear more likely than younger patients to have ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Atrial fibrillation may be root cause of some severe mitral regurgitation cases
Mitral regurgitation is a common heart valve disorder, where blood flows backwards through the mitral valve when the heart contracts and reduces the amount of blood that is pumped out to the body. It is a serious condition ...
Cardiology
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Rebuilding a whole heart for children born with only half of one
Using a combination of surgical procedures developed over the last 11 years, surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital have established a new approach for rebuilding the heart in children born with a severe heart defect called ...
Cardiology
Nov 06, 2012 |
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Innovative method to treat Alzheimer's in mice
Researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute report that they successfully used a virus vector to restore the expression of a brain protein and improve cognitive functions, in a mouse model of Alzheimer's ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Apr 01, 2013 |
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Routine EKG finding could signal serious heart problem
A common test that records the heart's electrical activity could predict potentially serious cardiovascular illness, according to a UC San Francisco-led study.
Cardiology
Apr 16, 2013 |
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2 years out, patients receiving stem cell therapy show sustained heart function improvement
Marked sustained improvement in all patients with zero adverse effects. For a phase I clinical trial, these results are the Holy Grail. Yet researchers from the University of Louisville and Brigham and Women's Hospital today ...
Cardiology
Nov 06, 2012 |
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Risk of death from heart failure is lower in women than in men
Women with chronic heart failure survive longer than their male counterparts, according to a large analysis of studies comprising data on more than 40,000 subjects. The analysis represents the largest assessment of gender ...
Cardiology
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Vitamin D treatment not found to reduce cardiovascular abnormalities in kidney disease patients
Almost a year's treatment with a vitamin D compound did not alleviate key structural and functional cardiovascular abnormalities in patients with kidney disease and cardiac enlargement. In a paper in the February 15 Journal of ...
Cardiology
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Surgeons pilot expandable prosthetic valves for congenital heart disease
(Medical Xpress)—Surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital have successfully implanted a modified version of an expandable prosthetic heart valve in several children with mitral valve disease. Unlike traditional prosthetic ...
Cardiology
Oct 03, 2012 |
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