Ventricular in Medical News

Berlin Heart Announces Restructuring of Management

... one of the intellectual fathers of the successful ventricular assist device INCOR(R). He will continue to ... and distributes implantable and external ventricular assist devices for patients of every age and body ... from severe end-stage heart failure. The ventricular assist device EXCOR(R) Pediatric is used ...

Atrial fibrillation in endurance athletes still poses problems for sports cardiologists

... atrial flutter, sinus node dysfunction, and right ventricular premature beats. "Given the fact that an ... structural changes, including atrial and right ventricular fibrosis and this fibrosis may play a role in ... not known if the sport-induced atrial and right ventricular fibrosis also reverses after deconditioning. This ...

Know Your Odds for Heart Failure

... that women had a greater and steeper rate of left ventricular thickening, and thus a higher risk of heart ... fewer risk factors had almost no increase in left ventricular mass with age," Vasan noted. "People who had more risk factors had a steeper increase in left ventricular mass with age." Another advance, outlined in ...

NewCardio Medical and Technology Team Presents Two Abstracts at Heart Rhythm Society Conference

... Evidence of Cardiac Memory During Continuous ventricular Pacing," authored by Drs. Alexei Shvilkin, Mark ... T wave abnormality) during continuous ventricular pacing using the Company's 3-dimensional ECG ... described in the setting of a return to normal ventricular activation. This observation advances our ...

Expert consensus on catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias

... undertaken into catheter ablation in the field of ventricular arrhythmia (VA) has been issued in a joint ... outcomes of catheter ablation for treatment of ventricular arrhythmias, a technique now being offered to ... therapies can ablation slow the progression of ventricular remodelling in structural heart disease? ...

Vivek Y. Reddy, M.D., Joins The Mount Sinai Medical Center as Director of Electrophysiology Laboratories

... heart rhythm affecting millions of Americans, and ventricular tachycardias, the most common cause of sudden ... famously a seminal multi-center clinical trial on ventricular tachycardia ablation. Known as SMASH-VT (Substrate Mapping and Ablation in Sinus Rhythm to Halt ventricular Tachycardia), the study examined the use of ...

Irregular Heartbeat During Angioplasty Could Raise Death Risk

... patients who had heartbeat abnormalities called ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation when they underwent what is formally ... said. More information There's more on ventricular fibrillation at the American Heart Association . ...

Hahnemann University Hospital Awarded Certification From the Joint Commission for Ventricular Assist Devices

... -- Hahnemann University Hospital's ventricular assist device program has earned the Gold Seal of Approval(TM) for health care quality. ventricular assist devices (VAD) are mechanical pumps that ... does the right things and does them well for ventricular assist device patients," says Jean E. Range, ...

Berlin Heart Receives First Regulatory Approval in North America

... approval in North America. The EXCOR(R) Pediatric ventricular assist device received the License with ... Pediatric is a pulsatile, pneumatically driven ventricular assist device and can be used to support one or ... distributes implantable and external ventricular assist devices for patients of every age and body ...

New Surgery for Heart Failure Proves Ineffective

... (HealthDay News) -- A surgical procedure called ventricular reconstruction that doctors hoped would improve ... proponents in using a surgical approach to treat ventricular remodeling that can occur after heart attacks through left ventricular volume reduction surgery," said Dr. Gregg C. ...

Thoratec Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire HeartWare International For US$282 Million;

... generation miniaturized axial flow LVAD (left ventricular assist device). Combining our R&D focus with ... devices including the HeartMate II(R) LVAS (Left ventricular Assist System), which received U.S. approval for ... HeartWare's HVAD(TM), part of the HeartWare(R) ventricular Assist System, is a full-output pump designed to ...

Pfizer contributes critical data to URMC drug safety initiative

... of its adverse effect of the process of cardiac ventricular repolarization the split-second period between ... of an ECG recording that measures the process of ventricular repolarization. Prolongation of the QT interval associated with episodes of fatal ventricular arrhythmias is a leading cause of removal of ...

Prism Pharmaceuticals Receives FDA Approval of NEXTERONE(R) for Life-Threatening Ventricular Fibrillation and Ventricular Tachycardia

... treatment and prophylaxis of frequently recurring ventricular fibrillation and hemodynamically ... on http://www.prismpharma.com . About ventricular Fibrillation and ventricular Tachycardia ...

Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval of New Family of Advanced Pacemakers

... patient requirements: -- Multiple Atrial ventricular (AV) Delay programming options: These options are designed to reduce unnecessary right ventricular (RV) pacing, without dropping ventricular beats, a key distinction from other ...

New research for mechanical support devices in pediatrics to be released at ISHLT

... These include: An implantable mixed-flow ventricular assist device designed specifically for patients up to two years of age Another mixed-flow ventricular assist device that can be implanted ... assist systems Apically implanted axial-flow ventricular assist device ...

Catheter repair of mitral valve improves heart size, symptoms

... in Indianapolis. Demonstrating that the left ventricular enlargement is actually reversing itself is ... was significantly smaller. For example, the left ventricular internal diameter during relaxation, or diastole, ... to 5.4 cm at 12 months (p=0.037), and left ventricular end-diastolic volume fell from an average of 208 ...

Experts from Penn's School of Medicine to present at ACC Annual Scientific Session

... Women Face Higher Risk for Decline in Left ventricular Ejection Fraction Following Orthotopic Liver ... patients were more likely to exhibit a left ventricular ejection fraction depression following ... Kirkpatrick believes that careful pre-operative ventricular assessment may help identify patients who could ...

For hospital patients, defibrillation delays mean lower survival

... experiencing a form of cardiac arrest known as ventricular arrhythmia. They found that the chances of ... 30 percent of patients with cardiac arrest due to ventricular arrhythmia received life-saving defibrillation ... focused exclusively on appropriate patients with ventricular arrhythmia. We found that delayed defibrillation ...

Study Sheds Light on Origins of Sudden Cardiac Death

... New imaging tecniques help researchers probe ventricular fibrillation THURSDAY, Dec. 27 ... about a deadly heart rhythm disorder called ventricular fibrillation may help lead to better ways of ... sheep and humans, and found that the frequency of ventricular fibrillation activity can be "scaled" using a ...

New Heart Pump Helps Women Awaiting Transplants

... the HeartMate II, is an implantable left ventricular assist device that helps heart function in people ... tended to be underrepresented in studies of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). Only 9 percent to 16 ... The American Heart Association has more on left ventricular assist devices. SOURCES: ...

Defibrillator Use Urged to Save Children's Lives

... studies have shown that children do experience ventricular fibrillation, a potentially fatal condition in ... of Medicine, said, the "overall incidence of ventricular fibrillation has been underestimated. It used to ... the intervals from collapse to recognition of ventricular fibrillation and to defibrillation." Another ...

Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Aug. 21, 2007, issue

... significantly reduce death for adults with left ventricular systolic dysfunction (Review, p. 251). In this ... death from all causes in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction by 20 percent. This ... shock if a dangerous rhythm occurs. Left ventricular systolic dysfunction -- heart muscle weakened ...

Thoratec Corporation and HeartWare International, Inc. Announce Termination of Proposed Transaction

... develops and manufactures miniaturized implantable heart pumps, or Left ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) to treat patients suffering from advanced heart failure. The HeartWare(R) ventricular Assist System features the HVAD(TM) pump, the only full-output pump ...

HeartWare to Webcast Annual Meeting

... develops and manufactures miniaturized implantable heart pumps, or Left ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs), to treat patients suffering from advanced heart failure. The HeartWare((R)) ventricular Assist System features the HVAD((TM)) pump, the only full-output pump ...

AGH Joins Select Group of Medical Centers in Study of Promising New Technology for Treatment of Heart Failure

... class of artificial mechanical support technology, referred to as left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), that is surgically implanted to help maintain the ... heart transplantation who are at risk of death due to end-stage left ventricular failure. “The DuraHeart LVAS is an important technological ...

Anemia associated with greater risk of death in heart disease patients

... findings also show that anemia is associated with a poorer degree of left ventricular function and a lower left ventricular ejection fraction, an objective measure of cardiac function. Heart ...

Thoratec Announces Appointment of Paul LaViolette to Board of Directors

... a director since its inception, is a pioneer in the development and use of ventricular assist devices and played a major role at Thoratec throughout the history ... Thoratec(R) VAD (Ventricular Assist Device) and HeartMate(R) LVAS (Left ventricular Assist System), with more than 13,000 devices implanted in patients ...

Implanted Defibrillators Boost Long-Term Survival

... tracked outcomes for more than 1,200 patients with ischemic left ventricular dysfunction who enrolled in the study in 2001. After eight years of ... of the devices was enhanced among patients who received some left ventricular pacing and among those who did not go on to develop heart failure, the ...

Estrogen May Help Men's Hearts

... an average age of 58 years. All of the men had heart failure and a left ventricular ejection fraction of 28 percent. Ejection fraction is a measure of how ... and the left ventricle is the heart's main pumping chamber. A normal left ventricular ejection fraction would be between 55 percent and 70 percent, according to ...

INTERMACS: Total Artificial Heart Bridge-to-Transplant Rate 2x Higher at 6 Months Than BiVADS and LVADs

... rate for Biventricular Assist Devices (BiVADS) at 36% and Left ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) at 27% ( see Chart 1 ). Unlike BiVADs and ... often require treatment with inotropes and/or implantation of a right ventricular assist device. Total Artificial Heart patients are not subject to right ...

HeartWare to Present at Eighth Annual JMP Securities Research Conference

... develops and manufactures miniaturized implantable heart pumps, or Left ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs), to treat patients suffering from advanced heart failure. The HeartWare(R) ventricular Assist System features the HVAD(TM) pump, the only full-output pump ...

Schering-Plough Starts Patient Enrollment in Phase 3 Trial for Acadesine, an Investigational Agent Being Studied for Prevention of Complications From Cardiac Surgery

... with a previous history of CABG surgery, heart attack, stroke, low left ventricular ejection fraction, or diabetes mellitus. Patients will be randomized to ... The primary endpoint is a composite of all-cause death, severe left ventricular dysfunction requiring mechanical support, or stroke at post-operative day ...

Smallest full support heart assist device on trial at Northwestern Memorial

... and among the first in the country to implant a new experimental left ventricular assist device (LVAD) into subjects with advanced heart failure, a ... the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body's organs. The HeartWare ventricular Assist System (HeartWare System) features the HVAD Pump, the smallest ...

Telemonitoring changes the working practice of cardiac nurses

... enhancing self care in heart failure populations, managing patients with ventricular assist devices, sudden cardiac death, hypertension, angina, and adult ... an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) storm, and having a ventricular assist device as a bridge to transplant. "The Spring Meeting is about ...

Thoratec and HeartWare Receive Request for Additional Information From Federal Trade Commission

... Thoratec(R) VAD (Ventricular Assist Device) and HeartMate(R) LVAS (Left ventricular Assist System) with more than 12,000 devices implanted in patients ... develops and manufactures miniaturized implantable heart pumps, or Left ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) to treat patients suffering from advanced heart ...

Danon Disease Can Be Quickly Fatal, Study Finds

... unexpected, major arrhythmic events, and one of them died suddenly from ventricular fibrillation -- very rapid, uncoordinated contractions of the ventricles ... problems with contraction of their left heart ventricle, called left ventricular systolic dysfunction. All seven had a defibrillator implanted, but in five ...

Prescription Copay Assistance for Patients taking Gleevec or Tasigna for Philadelphia chromosome-positive Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (Ph+ CML)

... deaths reported in the safety population and the expanded access program. ventricular repolarization abnormalities may have contributed to their occurrence. ... more common in the elderly. Severe congestive heart failure and left ventricular dysfunction have occasionally been reported. Most of the patients with ...

An angry heart can lead to sudden death, Yale researchers find

... how anger and other types of mental stress can trigger potentially lethal ventricular arrhythmias. Lampert and her team studied 62 patients with implantable ... electrical instability in the heart induced by anger, would predict future ventricular arrhythmias. The team found that those in the group with more ...

ESC reaffirms advice on cardiovascular risks associated with long-haul flights

... arrhythmias, the loss of consciousness is most commonly attributed to ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation. Less dangerous cardiac arrhythmias which could also lead to ...

Data on VELCADE(R) (Bortezomib) for Injection Based Therapies to be Presented at the International Myeloma Workshop

... exacerbation of congestive heart failure, and new onset of decreased left ventricular ejection fraction has been reported, including reports in patients with no risk factors for decreased left ventricular ejection fraction. There have been reports of acute diffuse infiltrative ...