Interventional cardiologists at the UW Medicine Heart Institute in Seattle recently performed a first-in-human procedure, successfully employing a catheter-delivered device to retrieve a benign tumor from inside a patient's ...
Aug 18, 2022
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A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) provides important guidance about sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), an often undiagnosed but prevalent health problem, and its association with development ...
Aug 16, 2022
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Intraoperative urinary catheters do not reduce the risk for postoperative urinary retention (PUR) after laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, according to a study published online June 15 in JAMA Surgery.
Jun 20, 2022
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A skilled nursing facility (SNF) embedded within a California hospital improved hand hygiene rates and compliance with critical infection prevention practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a result of hiring a full-time, ...
Jun 14, 2022
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Patients treated for a blocked artery in the leg were significantly more likely to have an open artery without further interventions at 12 months if they received the second-generation paclitaxel-coated balloon catheter known ...
Apr 5, 2022
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Patients with urinary catheters often get infections. But more comprehensive preventive efforts in health care cut the proportion affected in a group of frail elderly patients from 18 to 4 percent, a study led by University ...
Mar 28, 2022
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In Germany, nearly 6 million people suffer from coronary heart disease. The disease is caused by calcium deposits which constrict the coronary arteries. Doctors generally use a stent to widen the narrow pathway. However, ...
Dec 1, 2021
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(HealthDay)—For patients with infected necrotizing pancreatitis, immediate catheter drainage is not superior to postponed catheter drainage with regard to reducing complications, according to a study published in the Oct. ...
Oct 7, 2021
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A world-first study led by the University of South Australia has found that cancer patients receiving chemotherapy intravenously have more than double the risk of developing a blood clot or thrombosis if the vein is too small ...
Aug 4, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Catheter ablation significantly improved major clinical outcomes compared with drug therapy among racial or ethnic minorities with atrial fibrillation (AF) enrolled in the CABANA trial, according to a study ...
Jul 7, 2021
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