After an acute myocardial infarction, patients treated with rapid lowering of body temperature by combined cold saline infusion and endovascular cooling had less heart muscle damage and reduced incidence of heart failure. ...
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In a recent issue of Science Translational Medicine, Brian Polizzotti, PhD, Bernhard Kuhn, MD, Sangita Choudhury, PhD, and colleagues affiliated with the Boston Children's Hospital's Translational Research Center report that ...
Apr 28, 2015
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(MedicalXpress)—A large team of researchers with affiliations in Israel and Australia has found a way to cause cell regeneration in mice. In their paper published in the journal Nature Cell Biology, the team reports on ...
Working with lab animals and human heart cells, scientists from Johns Hopkins and other institutions have identified what they describe as "the long-sought culprit" in the mystery behind a cell-signaling breakdown that triggers ...
Mar 19, 2015
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It's well known that over the long run, a high-fat diet increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Feb 17, 2015
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Prolonged use of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) by patients with heart failure may induce regeneration of heart muscle by preventing oxidative damage to a cell-regulator mechanism, UT Southwestern Medical Center ...
Jan 21, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Strapping an oxygen mask to someone suffering a heart attack might make their heart attack worse, new research suggests.
Nov 19, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—An investigational drug studied in animals significantly reduced damage to heart muscle from a heart attack and minimized the risk of bleeding during follow-up treatments, according to a study by scientists ...
Aug 13, 2014
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Colchicine, a drug that's used to treat gout, has the beneficial side effect of lowering the risk of heart attack in patients taking it. Conversely, taxol, a drug for treating cancer, has the opposite effect; raising the ...
Mar 6, 2014
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After a heart attack, there is often permanent damage to a portion of the heart. This happens, in part, because cardiac muscle cells are terminally differentiated and cannot proliferate after blood flow is blocked off to ...
Feb 20, 2014
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