http://medicalxpress.com/cardiology-news/ en-us PhysOrg Team Medical Xpress provides the latest news on cardiology (HealthDay)—In patients who have previously been considered difficult to image, dual-source cardiac (DSC) computed tomography (CT) can identify clinically significant coronary artery disease, according to a review published in the May issue of Radiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-dual-source-cardiac-ct-ids-cad.html Cardiology 2013-05-23T18:20:01-07:00 UCLA researchers examining outcomes for advanced heart-failure patients over the past two decades have found that, coinciding with the increased availability and use of new therapies, overall mortality has decreased and sudden cardiac death, caused by the rapid onset of severe abnormal heart rhythms, has declined. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-death-decline-advanced-heart-failure.html Cardiology 2013-05-23T15:36:08-07:00 22 May 2013, Paris, France: The Lotus Valve, a second-generation transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) device, was successfully implanted in all of the first 60 patients in results from REPRISE II reported at EuroPCR 2013, which showed good device performance and low mortality at 30 days. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-second-generation-tavi-devicelotus-valveshows-good.html Cardiology 2013-05-23T11:04:25-07:00 Costs to treat stroke are projected to more than double and the number of people having strokes may increase 20 percent by 2030, according to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-america.html Cardiology 2013-05-22T12:00:01-07:00 Blood thinners are the preferred treatment option to prevent heart attacks, blood clots and stroke, but they are not without risk, and not just because of their side effects. These high-risk drugs, known as anticoagulants, account for nearly 7 percent of medication errors in hospitalized patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-blood-thinner-medication-errors.html Cardiology 2013-05-22T09:22:34-07:00 Results from a large observational study reported at EuroPCR 2013 today question whether bivalirudin is superior to heparin in the absence of GPIIb/IIIa blockade, showing similar 30-day mortality in patients with non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-registry-superiority-bivalirudin-heparin.html Cardiology 2013-05-22T09:20:00-07:00 The DESolve bioresorbable coronary scaffold system achieves good efficacy and safety with low rates of late lumen loss and major coronary adverse events at six months, show first results from the pivotal DESolve Nx trial reported at EuroPCR 2013 today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-late-lumen-loss-bioresorbable-desolve.html Cardiology 2013-05-22T09:18:15-07:00 The Orsiro stent, which is a novel stent platform eluting sirolimus from a biodegradable polymer, demonstrated non-inferiority to the Xience Prime everolimus-eluting stent for the primary angiographic endpoint of in-stent late lumen loss at nine months in the results of an imaging substudy reported at EuroPCR 2013 today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-biodegradable-stent-non-inferior-drug-eluting.html Cardiology 2013-05-21T17:26:46-07:00 One-year results from SOURCE XT – one of the largest, post-approval transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) registries to-date – reported today at EuroPCR 2013 show good clinical outcomes in routine clinical practice, with high rates of device success for all access approaches, valve sizes and delivery systems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-post-approval-tavi-registry-high-device.html Cardiology 2013-05-21T17:16:00-07:00 A drug commonly used to treat depression and anxiety may improve a stress-related heart condition in people with stable coronary heart disease, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-antidepressant-stress-induced-heart-condition.html Cardiology 2013-05-21T16:00:02-07:00 (Medical Xpress)—In a recent subgroup analysis of the largest blood pressure treatment trial in history, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers found that women and men react the same to non-diuretic-based antihypertensive therapies like an ACE inhibitor (lisinopril) or calcium channel blocker (amlodipine), as well as a diuretic therapy (chlorthalidone) given to treat hypertension and reduce its cardiovascular complications. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-superior-hypertension-treatment-efficacy-sexes.html Cardiology 2013-05-21T08:05:58-07:00 Over the past few decades, scientists have developed many devices that can reopen clogged arteries, including angioplasty balloons and metallic stents. While generally effective, each of these treatments has drawbacks, including the risk of side effects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-clogged-arteries.html Cardiology 2013-05-21T07:26:39-07:00 (Medical Xpress)—Cardiologists have identified a trio of biomarkers that may predict which patients with heart disease have a high risk of heart attack or death in the next two years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-biomarker-trio-near-term-heart.html Cardiology 2013-05-21T06:30:03-07:00 Hospitals with the highest rates of cardiac arrests tend to have the poorest survival rates for those cases, new University of Michigan Health System research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-hospitals-cardiac-incidence-survival.html Cardiology 2013-05-20T16:00:05-07:00 A clinical trial of 75 patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) suggests that aggressive fluid and sodium restriction has no effect on weight loss or clinical stability at three days but was associated with an increase in perceived thirst, according to a study published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-effect-fluid-sodium-restrictions-weight.html Cardiology 2013-05-20T16:00:01-07:00 National guidelines recommend that at-risk women be screened for elevated cholesterol levels to reduce their chances of developing cardiovascular disease. But who is 'at risk?' The results of a study by investigators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to estimate the proportion of women young and old who have cholesterol levels that meet the definition of being at-risk are reported in an article in Journal of Women's Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-women-screened-high-cholesterol.html Cardiology 2013-05-20T12:36:48-07:00 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have mapped the significance of heredity for common forms of atherosclerotic disease. No studies have previously examined whether different forms of the disease share heredity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-atherosclerotic-disease-heredity-nationwide.html Cardiology 2013-05-20T11:12:51-07:00 (Medical Xpress)—Life-saving CPR has been a foundation of emergency medicine for more than a half century. But researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix are continuing to refine the procedure, with a new study concluding that improving the quality and effectiveness of CPR can have a dramatic impact on survival from a cardiac arrest. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-cpr-quality.html Cardiology 2013-05-20T09:30:02-07:00 Finnish researchers have shown that genetic marker information can improve risk evaluation of coronary heart disease. The study comprised over 24,000 Finnish subjects and was led by Professor Samuli Ripatti. The results revealed that a panel of 28 genetic markers improved detection of individuals with high risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) (10-year risk ≥20%) over traditional risk factors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-genetic-screening-reveal-hidden-high.html Cardiology 2013-05-20T07:12:24-07:00 (HealthDay)—Blood levels of free fatty acids are associated with insulin resistance during young adulthood and cardiovascular risk factors in later adulthood, according to a study published online May 13 in Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-free-fatty-acids-linked-cardiac.html Cardiology 2013-05-17T12:30:01-07:00 An experimental, inexpensive iPhone application transmitted diagnostic heart images faster and more reliably than emailing photo images, according to a research study presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-heart-app.html Cardiology 2013-05-17T11:20:01-07:00 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a procedure traditionally used during cardiac surgeries and in the ICU that functions as an artificial replacement for a patient's heart and lungs, has also been used to resuscitate cardiac arrest victims in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. Now, a novel study of this technique in the U.S. has been completed by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, indicating a potential role for this intervention to save patients who are unable to be resuscitated through conventional measures. The new findings will be presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting in Atlanta, Ga. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-role-ecmo-patients-cardiac-profound.html Cardiology 2013-05-17T09:50:01-07:00 Age has little to do with how patients should be treated after suffering a stroke, according to new research from the University of Georgia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-patients-similarly-after-stroke-age-difference.html Cardiology 2013-05-17T08:36:36-07:00 Depressed middle-aged women have almost double the risk of having a stroke, according to research published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-depression-linked-middle-aged-women.html Cardiology 2013-05-16T16:26:40-07:00 The hardening of arteries is a hallmark of atherosclerosis, an often deadly disease in which plaques, excessive connective tissue, and other changes build up inside vessel walls and squeeze off the flow of oxygen-rich blood throughout the body. Now, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have described the molecular and cellular pathway that leads to this hardening of the arteries—and zeroed in on a particularly destructive protein called Dkk1. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-hardening-arteries.html Cardiology 2013-05-16T16:22:23-07:00 The type of sensors that pick up the rhythm of a beating heart in implanted cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers are vulnerable to tampering, according to a new study conducted in controlled laboratory conditions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-sensors-heart-devices-consumer-electronics.html Cardiology 2013-05-16T12:59:04-07:00 People with strokes caused by blood clots fared better in hospitals participating in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-patients-fare-hospitals-guidelines-stroke.html Cardiology 2013-05-16T11:26:13-07:00 Heart attack or heart failure patients may have a high risk of death or re-admission for a month or longer after leaving the hospital, researchers said at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Scientific Sessions 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-death-hospital-readmission-prolonged-heart.html Cardiology 2013-05-16T10:25:36-07:00 (Medical Xpress)—University of Nottingham researchers have developed a new predictive tool to help GPs identify and treat patients at risk of stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-qresearch-tool-treatment.html Cardiology 2013-05-16T07:10:01-07:00 People hospitalized for acute heart failure are likely to survive longer compared to the prior decade, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Heart Association and presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-heart-failure-patients-longer-long-term.html Cardiology 2013-05-16T06:50:25-07:00