Investigators have, for the first time, completed a comprehensive analysis of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of research to prevent non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) and determined that prevention research ...
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(HealthDay)—Among patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), presentation with non-chest pain delays door-to-balloon (DTB) time but does not worsen clinical outcomes, according to research published ...
Dec 30, 2014
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It's a sound that saves. A "real-time" radiation monitor that alerts by beeping in response to radiation exposure during cardiac-catheterization procedures significantly reduces the amount of exposure that medical workers ...
Dec 16, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Patient case-mix and procedural factors may contribute to wide variation in the hospital rates of bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to research published online Nov. 25 in Circulation: ...
Nov 27, 2014
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(HealthDay)—For adults with diabetes and multivessel or left main coronary artery disease, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with increased likelihood of a composite outcome compared with coronary artery ...
Nov 20, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Use of drug-eluting stents (DES) rather than bare-metal stents (BMS) for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with lower rates of in-hospital mortality, according to research published in the ...
Nov 20, 2014
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Prashant Kaul, M.D., of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and colleagues conducted a study to define the incidence and treatment and outcomes of patients who experience a certain type of heart attack during hospitalization ...
Nov 16, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Patients who survive the first month after an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have
Nov 11, 2014
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Every year in the U.S., 600,000 heart procedures are performed by threading thin tubes through patients' arteries to access their hearts. Percutaneous coronary intervention – or PCI – is an alternative to open heart surgery ...
Nov 5, 2014
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(HealthDay)—In the past several years, the rate of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for coronary artery disease (CAD) has decreased in the United States, according to research published in the Oct. 1 issue of The ...
Nov 3, 2014
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