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A new treatment for liver cancer

...ontaining the radioactive element yttrium into the femoral and hepatic arteries.// The beads travel to the liver and deliver the radiation there, killing cancer cells. The treatment has been found to work best with colorectal or gastrointestinal tumours, and less well with larger liver tumours or those invol...

Ultrasound Screening Could Improve The Outcome Of Critically ill Patients

...heter in the main artery in their thigh called the femoral artery.// Almost half of the 31 million patients ... receive a central venous catheter. It’s estimated femoral vein placement of the catheter is associated with the development of blood clots in around 8 percent...

Drug Found Effective In Reducing Vertebral Fractures In Women

...ncrease at the lumbar spine and 8.3 percent at the femoral neck. Investigators conclude strontium ranelate given orally each day appears to reduce the risk of vertebral fractures rapidly, effectively and safely among postmenopausal women with osteoporosis....

Reducing The Risk Of Fractures After a Heart Transplant

...f 1.6 percent. BMD decreased by 1.7 percent at the femoral neck for the alendronate patients and 2.1 percent for the calcitriol patients. The rate of fractures was about the same for the two groups. A comparison of the treatment groups with a similar group of patients receiving no treatment for bone loss i...

Reducing Vertebral Fractures In Women

...ncrease at the lumbar spine and 8.3 percent at the femoral neck. Thus researchers conclude that strontium ranelate given orally each day appears to reduce the risk of vertebral fractures rapidly, effectively and safely among postmenopausal women with osteoporosis....

The Use Of Estrogen Replacement Therapy For Alzheimer’s Disease Questioned

...velop memory problems if they had lower BMD at the femoral neck. Those with the lowest measurements were about twice as likely to have Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. However no significant link between BMD and cognitive problems was observed among the men in the study. Thus researchers believe tha...

Cow's vein used in man to treat varicose ulcer.

...ays, "The neck vein of cows is very similar to the femoral vein of man. The bovine valve becomes a better fit...s valve is pre treated with drugs."// The femoral vein is a primary vein of the upper leg near the groin and the valves in the vein help in the regula...

New combined therapy for Knee Joint pain

...ur) articulate with leg bone (tibia) to form tibio femoral joint. In front of these bones the patella which slides up and down to form patellofemoral joint. In th ejoint between this femur and tibia certain space should be maintained. This gap is maintained by two groups of muscles which cross the knee joint...

Heart valve surgery may be replaced by new heart therapy

...end of a flexible catheter that is inserted in the femoral vein in the groin and is guided to the diseased valve. It is put in place by inflating a balloon at the end of the catheter. The Frenchman on whom the technique was first used, had a badly damaged aortic valve and other medical problems that made sur...

Treatment Of Brain Aneurysms By A New Non-Surgical Approach

...ose off the aneurysm. A catheter inserted into the femoral artery (a blood vessel in the upper leg) is used to deliver the coils to the aneurysm in the blood vessels of the brain. The procedure is not without limitations. Coil embolization is currently used to treat approximately 30 percent of cerebral aneu...

Identification Of Gene Sequence To Promote Growth Of New Arteries

... arteries especially when there is blockage in the femoral (leg) artery. As a novel approach the team has a...ken and human vascular disease was mimicked in the femoral arteries in both the sets, normal mice having the intact gene and the other lacking the MMP2 gene. I...

Stem Cell Transplantation Promises Cure for Type 2 Diabetes

...thesia. A very minute puncture is then made in the femoral artery. The extracted stem cells are then introduced directly into the pancreas through a synthetic tube (catheter). With our improved understanding of stem cell biology and active research in stem cell transplantation, it would not be long before ...

Heart Disease Risk Can Now Be Predicted By A Painless, Non-Invasive Test

...in the region of the carotid artery (neck) and the femoral artery (upper thigh). The tonometer device now measures the intra-arterial pressure and transmits it to a computer for aPWV calculation. A healthy, elastic artery has a slower pulse while a stiff, unhealthy artery has a faster wave. The researchers...

Trans-radial Angiograms: A Boon For Cardiac Patients

...has been done through an artery in the groin - the femoral artery. Newer techniques that are now available in...small (radial) artery in the wrist rather than the femoral artery," says Chugh, who has performed 3,500 such cases in India and abroad. "Patients are able to...

Child-Proof: Brain Mapping Safer for Children than Previously Thought

...tentially dangerous complication of puncturing the femoral artery, and none reported leg pain, difficulty walking or limping during an average follow-up of 28 months. While most angiograms are diagnostic, they can also be used to treat spinal and brain malformations endovascularly-or from within the blood ...

Exercise Intolerance In Heart Failure Patients Is Explored By Researchers

...rent study, researchers examined blood flow in the femoral artery, which delivers a majority of the blood rec...ging (MRI) test to assess blood flow through their femoral artery before and after flow was temporarily stopped with a blood pressure cuff. This test measures ...

Safer ICU’s: Cheap, Simple, “Low-Tech” Steps Wrk

...d washing; avoiding catheter placement through the femoral artery in the groin, an area notoriously difficult to keep sterile; using and changing gloves, gowns and masks for each procedure; cleaning patients’ skin with chlorhexidine; and removing catheters as soon as possible, even if there’s a chance they m...

Simple Steps to Safe Guard Patients from Bloodstream Infections in ICU

...ashing, avoiding placement of catheter through the femoral artery in the groin, proper use of separate gloves, masks and gowns for each procedure; cleaning’ skin of patients with chlorhexidine; and removing catheters at the earliest, were stressed upon. The results were quite dramatic after the simple tec...

Simple Steps to Safe Guard Patients from Bloodstream Infections in ICU

...ashing, avoiding placement of catheter through the femoral artery in the groin, proper use of separate gloves, masks and gowns for each procedure; cleaning’ skin of patients with chlorhexidine; and removing catheters at the earliest, were stressed upon. The results were quite dramatic after the simple techn...

Older Men Have Similar Refracture Risk as Women

...ral fractures in younger men. In further analyses, femoral neck bone mineral density, age, and smoking were predictors of subsequent fracture in women and femoral neck bone mineral density, physical activity, and calcium intakes were predictors in men. "The cri...

HIV-positive Individuals Have a Massively Increased Risk of Osteonecrosis

... 22 people with symptomatic hip osteonecrosis, the femoral heads (the top of the thigh bone, which forms the ‘ball’ in the ball-and-socket hip joint) of both legs were involved. In seven people, other bones were involved as well. Two (11%) of the asymptomatic and thirteen (59%) of the symptomatic patients un...

Nonsurgical Thoracic Aorta Repair Has Much Less Risk of Paralysis Than Surgery

...ide the artery, using imaging to guide it from the femoral artery in the groin to the precise location in the aorta where it is deployed to create a new wall in the aorta from the inside. The London study involved 190 patients in a prospective database from 1997 to 2006. All patients had diseased aortas i...

Multi-Year Data Shows PAD Treatment Prevents Amputation

...ntional radiologist threads a catheter through the femoral artery in the groin to the blocked artery in the l...eated nonsurgically, in many cases the superficial femoral artery is still being treated surgically. Source-Newswis SRM...

Nonsurgical Therapy Highly Effective for Pain and Infertility in Men

... radiologist made a nick in the skin to access the femoral vein, then used X-ray imaging to guide a catheter up the femoral vein into the faulty vein, introducing the alcohol to seal the vein shut and allow healthy veins to ...

Hip Resurfacing Fever Catches on in US

... to fit another.Surgeons lightly shave the damaged femoral ball and fit a metal ball snugly over it. That ball rolls in a metal cup reinforcing the socket. The idea: Metal-on-metal shouldn't wear out as fast, and if patients do need another replacement in 15 or 20 years, the thigh bone is largely intact. ...

Aerobic Exercise Helps Maintain Muscle in Elderly: Research

...in each of the volunteers, while supplying via the femoral artery a concentration of insulin similar to that released after a typical meal. They also took three small muscle tissue samples from each subject. Tracer techniques enabled the scientists to track amino acids (the building blocks of muscle protei...

Osteoarthritis Facts and Causes

... femoro-acetabular impingement (FAI), in which the femoral head of the thighbone causes damage by rubbing abnormally on the hip socket (acetabulum). FAI caused by an abnormality in the hip socket can lead to osteoarthritis, but it is not known if FAI that is not caused by a defect can also lead to the cond...