Heart patients do better with non-surgical valve replacement than standard medical therapy
Patients diagnosed with aortic stenosis who are too sick for open-heart surgery have better survival rates and an improved quality of life after undergoing catheter-based heart valve replacement than if the patients had been ...
Cardiology
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Minimally invasive treatment for ruptured aneurysm: Safe, reduces mortality
A burst aneurysm (a local area of bulge) in the abdominal aorta—the largest blood vessel in the body -- is a deadly condition. In fact, about half of these patients don't make it to the hospital in time. Those who do ...
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Mar 25, 2012 |
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Stereotactic radiotherapy provides excellent local control for lung malignancies
(Medical Xpress) -- Image-guided stereotactic radiation therapy is well tolerated and very effective in locally-controlling lung cancer, Methodist Cancer Center researchers report in the April issue of the Journal of Radiation On ...
Cancer
Mar 20, 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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New scanning strategy could help develop heart disease treatments
Patients with life-threatening heart valve disease could be helped with alternative scanning techniques that provide greater insight into the condition.
Cardiology
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Results of the PARTNER Trial Cohort B 2-year follow up presented at TCT 2011
A two-year study of patients in the landmark PARTNER trial, which compared transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients who have severe aortic stenosis and are not candidates for open heart surgery, confirm the ...
Cardiology
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Smart materials that get bone to heal
Bone tissue is very good at self-healing, but in many situations the natural healing process is not sufficient. In a dissertation at Uppsala University, Sonya Piskounova shows how functional materials that ...
Medical research
Nov 04, 2011 |
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FDA approves innovative, non-invasive heart valve
(AP) -- Federal health officials have approved a first-of-a-kind artificial heart valve that can be implanted without major surgery, offering a new treatment option for patients who are too old or frail for the chest-cracking ...
Cardiology
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Double duty for blood pressure drugs: how they could revolutionize how we treat valve disease
A type of medication known as angiotensin-receptor blockers could reduce risk of mortality in people with a heart disease called calcific aortic stenosis (AS) by 30 per cent over an eight-year period, Heart and Stroke Foundation ...
Cardiology
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Gene linked with death after coronary bypass surgery
Duke University Medical Center researchers have found a genetic variant that seems to be associated with lower five-year survival after a coronary artery bypass.
Cardiology
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Study begins of minimally invasive treatment for blocked heart valves
(Medical Xpress) -- Heart experts at Johns Hopkins have begun testing a new device designed to replace blocked aortic valves in patients for whom traditional open-heart surgery is considered too risky, such as elderly patients ...
Cardiology
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Arthroscopic treatment of common hip problem improves range of motion
Arthroscopic treatment of a common hip problem that leads to arthritis is successful in terms of restoring range of motion, according to results from a recent Hospital for Special Surgery study. The study will be presented ...
Other
Jul 10, 2011 |
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Arthroscopy and open surgery are equally efficacious in treating common hip problem in most patients
Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery have found that in comparison to open surgery, arthroscopic treatment of a common hip problem that leads to arthritis produces similar outcomes in terms of repairing structural ...
Other
Jul 08, 2011 |
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Pediatric urologist develops procedure to eliminate scarring in kidney surgeries
Surgery and all its implications can be scary, especially so for pediatric patients and their parents who dread sometimes disfiguring scars.
Other
Jul 01, 2011 |
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New option for patients with untreatable, non-perative heart condition
(Medical Xpress) -- An innovative approach for implanting a new aortic heart valve without open-heart surgery is being offered at Rush University Medical Center to patients with severe aortic stenosis who are at high-risk ...
Cardiology
Jun 28, 2011 |
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