Percutaneous in Biological News

Freezing kidney cancer: Hot treatment should be new gold standard for destroying small tumors

... studies, examining the safety and efficacy of percutaneous (no incision) cryoablation, show the treatment's ... within a year with a CT scan or MRI. The use of percutaneous cryoablation should not be limitedas it has ... When comparing the rate of complications between percutaneous cryoablation and surgery, Georgiades said that ...

New data shows benefits of MitraClip for patients with mitral regurgitation

... 2007 The vast majority of patients who had a successful result with the percutaneous MitraClip device did not need mitral valve surgery three years after their ... the procedure. Our work to reduce mitral regurgitation with a percutaneous approach continues to produce compelling results, said Ted Feldman, M.D., ...

Latest advances in interventional cardiology for congenital heart disease presented

... ovale. As a result of his research, the FDA approved the first ASD closure device for use in children in 2001. Currently, Hijazi is evaluating percutaneous valve implantation for patients with defective pulmonary valves. In 2005, Hijazi became the first person in the United States to perform this ...

Findings released from 1 of the largest percutaneous coronary intervention trials ever

... is the largest study ever to focus on the appropriate use of anticoagulant medications in patients experiencing STEMI and undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Only 7.2 percent of patients in the bivalirudin group received provisional GPI. The study also found that bivalirudin ...

Cryoablation -- A new treatment option for some kidney tumor patients

... report that freezing kidney tumors through percutaneous cryoablation shows promise for patients who are ... able to have surgery because of other factors, percutaneous cryoablation may be an option. "This ... only a relatively small subset of patients. percutaneous ablation uses needles to penetrate the skin and ...

High-dose anticlotting drug cuts heart attack, death risk in half

... Pretreatment with double-dose anticlotting medication just before percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) cuts the combined risk of heart attack and cardiac death by half, according to a study reported at the 30th Annual ...

Protein therapy may reduce infarct size in heart attack patients

... heart attack patients. In the DELTA MI trial, the DCRI team evaluated KAI-9803 in 154 patients with anterior ST-elevation MI undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention with balloon angioplasty and coronary stent implantation. Patients were randomized 2:1 to receive intracoronary injections of ...

Potential heart benefit found in stem cells

... or blockages in the arteries leading to the heart infarction. In the study, 17 patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy were treated with a combined percutaneous injection (both intramyocardial and intracoronary, either the heart muscle or the heart's artery) of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells. At ...

Stem cell mobilization therapy appears to be ineffective in repairing damage caused by heart attack

... (a certain pattern on an electrocardiogram indicating a heart attack), had successful reperfusion (restoration of blood flow) to the heart by percutaneous coronary intervention (procedures such as angioplasty in which a catheter-guided balloon is used to open a narrowed coronary artery) within 12 hours ...

New cell transplantation technique restores insulin production in diabetics

... is so-called because of the layered applications of gelfoam and coil used to close the access site." Dr. Krishnamoorthy said that even though percutaneous islet cell transplantation is currently an experimental procedure, the sandwich closure is a safe method that prevents many of the complications ...