Professor Raimondo Ascione, and Professor Saadeh Suleiman, from the Bristol Heart Institute, will explore whether treatment with two drugs, which are already used in other ways in people with heart conditions, could benefit ...
Oct 31, 2018
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A research team led by Peter Sloot, professor of Complex Adaptive Systems at the University of Amsterdam, has managed to pinpoint the mechanisms behind the immune response triggered in patients undergoing open heart surgery. ...
Oct 11, 2018
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When Medicare in 2011 agreed to pay for a revolutionary procedure to replace leaky heart valves by snaking a synthetic replacement up through blood vessels, the goal was to offer relief to the tens of thousands of patients ...
Aug 20, 2018
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Len Rapkins can barely remember a time when he wasn't fit.
Jul 2, 2018
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The stress of open-heart surgery significantly reduces patients' vitamin D levels, but aggressive supplementation with vitamin D3, just before and after surgery, can completely eliminate the observed drop in vitamin D, researchers ...
Mar 12, 2018
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Physicians at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are taking an innovative approach to improve care for patients receiving aortic valve replacements. They're working alongside biomedical engineers from Ohio State's ...
Mar 5, 2018
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Some heart patients haven't yet been able to access the growing trend toward minimally invasive procedures. A new clinical trial, though, makes a form of mitral valve repair an option without an open-heart surgery.
Feb 22, 2018
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The risk of serious heart problems after open heart surgery nearly doubles when the operation is performed in the morning rather than the afternoon, researchers said Friday.
Oct 27, 2017
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When the ground started shaking in Mexico City on September 19, many people ran out into the street.
Oct 22, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Elevated urinary levels of the proteins TIMP-2 and IGFBP7 are a potentially useful biomarker predicting moderate to severe acute kidney injury (AKI) in the early postoperative period after open heart surgery, ...
Oct 5, 2017
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