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New drug to treat Heart Attack and damaged tissue

If a blood vessel in blocked the related tissue experiences ischemia, a state of low oxygen supply that slowly kills the tissue. They are referred as Ichemia / Reperfusion (IR) injury occurs during heart attacks. Understanding Ischemia / Reperfusion leads to the deve...

Gene HPA-2 Met linked to cardiac arrest

...nd more prone to form clots that fatally block the vessel serving the heart. They found that men who died of a heart attack or coronary heart disease prematurely were also more likely to carry HPA-2 Met. However, the majority of men in this study had other risk factors, like smoking or diabetes. But it do...

Grains do good

..., if you want to cut your risk for heart and blood vessel disease and cancer, researchers say. Fruits and v...had a 23% lower risk of dying from heart and blood vessel disease, and a 21% lower risk of dying from cancer. The first item listed should be whole-wheat ...

A new growth factor identified

...ave identified a growth factor that triggers blood vessel formation within the endocrine glands. In Californ... a specific protein called VEGF triggers new blood vessel growth throughout the body. This has been investigated as a treatment for heart disease. Since tumor...

Coronary stent leads to complications

...act of placing a stent in the artery irritates the vessel walls and may promote formation of a clot - ironically, the actual problem which the procedure is supposed to prevent.// Till date, it has been thought that clot formation inside a stent was quite a rare event, affecting one per cent of patients. I...

Recouping blood flow after a stroke

...took over the blood supply function of the blocked vessel that had caused the stroke. This research may provide new ways of limiting the damage to the brain in human stroke, by harnessing the brain's own self-healing power....

Drugs disrupt formation of blood vessels

...ents. Four drugs that disrupt angiogenesis - blood vessel formation - have been shown for the first time to be effective. It also provides the first indication that the drugs, known as angiogenesis inhibitors, vary in effectiveness depending on the stage of cancer targeted. // Senior researcher Dr Dougla...

Detecting brain aneurysms

...of a blood vessel. This involves all layers of the vessel wall. Aneurysms pose a risk to health due to their...nal and thoracic aorta, and brain. Potential blood vessel problems in the brain can be detected by non-invasive techniques, but only if they are above a certa...

Wound healing made faster

...types of cells including muscle, bone, skin, blood vessel and fat cells. "Our wound healing complex has more universal application than other systems," he says.While initial trials will focus on skin grafting for burn and accident victims, the researchers also hope to use the wound-healing complex in treat...

Depression disturbs heart rate

...g, if you like - of the heart. It influences blood vessel size, blood pressure and the heart's ability to contract. A healthy heart is one with a high HRV. The fact that depression lowers HRV points to an important mind-body mechanism. Clearly, it may be essential to treat depression as well as heart proble...

An effective way to treat angina

...to the heart, or bypass surgery to short-circuit a vessel blockage.// Angina can relieved by another, les... Japan, reveals that three out of four known blood vessel growth factors have their levels raised during EECP. Eleven individuals with angina, average age 60,...

Re-blockage of heart arteries prevented by vitamins

... involves inserting a small balloon into the blood vessel and then inflating it to push the walls of the vessel apart. The problem is that in 20 per cent of cases the vessel re-blocks - a process called restenosi...

Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease

...od vessels of cows. Endothelin-1 is a potent blood vessel constrictor, and overproduction of the compound is thought to be a key factor in why arteries clog with fatty deposits. The pigments are not present in white wine or rose, and they seem to be less potent when they are present in grape juice. In the...

The way you talk matters a lot

... he had ruptured the carotid artery, a vital blood vessel supplying the brain, eyes and other parts of the head. Dr Mathieu Zuber, a neurologist at Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris, who reported the case, said long styl oid processes( a slender, pointed bone which runs from both sides of the skull under the e...

Moderate alcohol consumption protects against dementia

...ard off dementia, which is often caused by a blood vessel problem. Another possibility is that low levels of alcohol could stimulate the release acetylcholine, a brain chemical believed to facilitate learning and memory....

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

...ure.// Coronary artery bypass surgery uses a blood vessel from another part of the body to reroute blood around narrowed or clogged arteries in the heart. A buildup of substances such as fats or plaque causes this narrowing, known as atherosclerosis. In the new study, Scottish researchers compared hospita...

Sensible drinking staves off strokes

...isk of the build-up of fatty deposits in the blood vessel walls. But larger amounts, especially if drunk in one go, increases blood pressure, the main risk factor for stroke. Dr.Redahan led researchers said:"To help reduce your risk of stroke - watch your alcohol intake - that is no more than 2/3 units a ...

Alcohol decreases risk of dementia

...s a day - reduces cardiovascular risk. Since blood vessel disease also affects the brain, might alcohol also protect against dementia. According to this study, the report on alcohol is part of the long-running Rotterdam Study, which is following over 5,000 people aged 52 and older. Those who drank alcohol...

Foremost gene therapy for chest pain

...d a gene for a growth factor that stimulates blood vessel generation into 70 men and women with angina. A further 20 people acted as controls. The gene therapy proved safe - the gene itself, introduced via a virus 'carrier', stayed in heart tissue. What's more, there were small but significant increases i...

Failure of Drug-Coated Stent

...nce restenosis, during which cells from inside the vessel grow around the stent, partially obstructing the vessel and putting patients at risk of a heart attack. The stents used in his experiment had a relatively ...

Pulses and grains protect the heart

..., if you want to cut your risk for heart and blood vessel disease and cancer, researchers say.// Fruits and...had a 23% lower risk of dying from heart and blood vessel disease, and a 21% lower risk of dying from cancer. The first item listed should be whole-wheat ...

Liver key to extending life

...nvolved in atherosclerosis — the build-up on blood vessel walls — float around in the blood because they are unable to be processed properly in the liver. In an article due to appear in medical journal The Lancet next month, Professor Le Couteur argues that the age-related increase in atherosclerosis is du...

A new genetic label for stroke

...a major role in the development of heart and blood vessel disease leading to stroke. Blood samples of 120 people who had suffered a stroke before age 44 were compared with those of 120 healthy people the same age. Results showed people who had a stroke were four times more likely than healthy individuals t...

High Levels of Protein Linked to Brain Shrinkage

...e may increase the risk of brain atrophy and blood vessel disease, researchers report. It is still too soon ...ad a heart attack or stroke or who had evidence of vessel disease on a brain scan, had higher levels of homocysteine in the blood, regardless of whether they ...

Greater volume hospitals better for stroke

...ls dealing with many such cases.// In SAH, a blood vessel bursts within the blood supply surrounding the brain's exterior. It can cause brain damage, coma and death. Data on nearly 10,000 patients admitted to 300 emergency departments was scanned, in terms of how many cases the departments saw a year. Hig...

Many factors influence sexual potency

...rmance. Medical conditions such as diabetes, blood vessel disease, nerve injuries and low levels of male hormones can cause sexual impairment. Also, certain medications can affect sexual potency. The physicians often can modify doses of the medication which might decrease adverse side effects. - Smoking c...

Gene treatment for macular degeneration

...rect the deficient genes that lead to excess blood vessel growth - the main factor in wet macular degeneration. While the treatment is still experimental and is not being done in humans, Dr. Davidorf says this type of therapy offers encouraging news for the future of macular degeneration treatment....

Comparing heart disease treatments

...arteries. //Bypass surgery involves grafting a new vessel in place of the blocked section. Stenting involves introducing a metal device into the artery to keep it opened up. Researchers in Germany assigned a group of 200 patients to either minimally-invasive bypass surgery or to stenting and compared the ou...

Usage of coil better in brain haemorrhage

...chers in UK inserting a coil into a weakened blood vessel offers a survival benefit over surgery in brain ha...rhage// - caused by a bursting of a weakened blood vessel in the brain - is up to 40 per cent in the first 24 hours after the event. The standard treatment is...

Exercise helps with leg cramps

...lps in PAD by increasing muscle activity and blood vessel function, as well as improving overall cardiovascular health....

Stroke Risk and Fish :A factual interconnection

...// which is caused by a clot that blocks the blood vessel supplying the brain with blood was confirmed with ...med as hemorrhagic stroke, caused by a leaky blood vessel that bleeds into the brain, and the rest could not be classified from the data available. Risk of i...

Damage to arteries from injury can be avoided with carbon monoxide

...acing a balloon in the artery causes damage to the vessel walls. This in turn triggers the immune system res...overed that the carbon monoxide spared much of the vessel damage associated with transplantation and angioplasty in the pre-treated rats. The researchers clai...

Brain aneurysms can now be treated with a less invasive procedure

...one of the blood vessels in the brain, causing the vessel to bulge, ultimately resulting in a brain hemorrha...ose people with brain aneurysm, in which the blood vessel bulge has a wide neck. The new procedure, which is far less invasive than surgery, involves the use ...

Risk of hemorrhagic stroke increased in smoking individuals

...ween ischemic stroke - caused by a clot in a blood vessel serving the brain - and smoking. The new study tha...hemorrhagic strokes, caused by bursting of a blood vessel and bleeding into the brain and around 37 per cent of these strokes are fatal within 30 days....

Simple Stroke Prevention is Best

...to bleeding in the brain or to blockage of a blood vessel in the brain. Participants received either a daily 500-milligram dose of ticlopidine or a daily 650-milligram dose of aspirin.// Researchers hypothesized ticlopidine would be more effective in black ischemic stroke patients than aspirin. The study wa...

Antibiotics May Help Prevent Strokes

...ill be tested in people without any heart or blood vessel problems. Ultimately, we may one day see antibiotics prescribed to otherwise healthy people simply as means of preventing stroke, he added....

Angioplasty Should be the Standard

...ated with angioplasty to open up the clogged blood vessel that caused the attack than when they are treated with a clot-busting drug therapy called fibrinolysis. Danish investigators provide evidence reversing conventional wisdom. Their study involved around 1,500 heart attack patients at 24 hospitals with...

Hidden Disease in Stroke Patients

...ious whether a stroke was caused by large or small vessel disease, doctors should evaluate whether the patient is at risk of a heart attack by looking at their age, gender, cholesterol and blood pressure levels, smoking history and diabetes risk. The American Heart Association suggests patients whose risk i...

Air Pollution Tied to Stroke Risk

...intracerebral hemorrhage is when a defective brain vessel bursts and an ischemic stroke happens when a blood clot blocks blood flow to the brain. Study authors conclude this research provides new evidence that higher levels of certain pollutants increase the risk of hospital admissions for a stroke....

Easier Treatment for Blood Clot

... fatal. It is defined as an obstruction of a blood vessel in the lungs, usually due to a blood clot, //which blocks a coronary artery. While treatment is not always successful for a pulmonary embolism, a new study shows a new treatment is just as effective and easier to administer to patients than the curre...

Poor Preventive Measures Taken By Diabetics

...ntative measures to avert // circulation and blood vessel problems. Researchers stressed continued negligence by diabetics increases their risk for vascular disease including retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, coronary heart disease, stroke, and lower extremity amputations. Researchers sampled nearly 1,...

Folic Acid Found To Be Beneficial For Stroke Patients

...uses an insult on the vascular wall, weakening the vessel and making it more prone to damage.” Researchers say their results show the reduction in homocysteine levels was associated with fewer deaths due to stroke and cardiovascular disease. Researchers thus conclude that, “If folic acid fortification is ...

Treating Blocked Arteries In The Lower Limbs

...nd threaded to the site of the blocked artery. The vessel is pumped open by a tiny balloon, and the stent is inserted to hold open the blood vessel. Until the stent was introduced 10 years ago, the only way to open up such vessels was surgically bypassing the blockage with a healthy vein or artery....

Stroke Prevention

...lood pressure.The endothelium is the lining of the vessel walls and plays a key role in vessels’ ability to ... patients were on the drug, there was normal blood vessel function. However, when patients were on the placebo the blood flow did not change. Researchers feel...

Tissue Transfer for Skin Cancer

...omen -- that's where doctors took muscle and blood vessel to fill the cavity left after they removed the tum...University in Portland, says. "We detach the blood vessel in the groin, and we take the muscle and the blood vessel, and we bring it up to the eye." Dr. Wax...

Stent Effective In Keeping Arteries Open

...ting cell reproduction and reducing cell growth in vessel walls. Unlike other similar drug-eluting stents, the one used in this study is made with a biodegradable polymer researchers believe will reduce and minimize long-term inflammation and restenosis. This unique everolimus-coated stent freezes the biol...

Eyes,The Window To The Future

...ion in five years as compared to people with wider vessel openings. Researchers conclude saying that based on their findings of this study, visible changes in the eye may precede the development of severe hypertension. They say this sign could be a more stable measure of risk than other measures that can ...

The Drug Tetrathiomolybdate Found To Be Useful For Various Diseases

...nhibit a thing called angiogenesis, which is blood vessel growth. Cancer requires blood vessel growth in order to grow. TM has proven to be effective as an anti-cancer agent and was also found to...

Diabetics Should Adopt Better Preventive Measures

...eventative measures to avert circulation and blood vessel problems. // Researchers stressed continued negligence by diabetics increases their risk for vascular disease including retinopathy, neuropathy, nephropathy, coronary heart disease, stroke, and lower extremity amputations. Researchers sampled nearly...

Angioplasty The Much Preferred Treatment Of Choice For Heart Attacks

...ated with angioplasty to open up the clogged blood vessel that caused the attack than when they are treated with a clot-busting drug therapy called fibrinolysis. Danish researchers involved around 1,500 heart attack patients in their study from 24 hospitals without angioplasty services and five hospitals ...

Hormone therapy may affect heart attack severity in women

...cribed for several years as a way to prevent heart vessel disease in women. However after several research studies, including the Women's Health Initiative, it was found that combination therapy (estrogen plus progestin) increased the risk of both a first and second heart attack in older women. These studie...

The Benefits Of Soy

...lts are important because studies have shown heart vessel disease, also known as atherosclerosis, begins in the 30s and 40s for women. Hence the protection provided by soy in the monkeys, who were selected to represent women in their 30s and 40s, presumably means the same benefit would apply to premenopausa...

Survival rate not improved by invasive procedures

...s inserting a fine tube into the heart via a blood vessel in order to determine the condition of the heart. Patients admitted to hospitals with specialized facilities were more likely to undergo invasive procedures as expected. However at the end of six months, it was found that the risk of death was 14 p...

Computer System To Predict Deep Vein Thrombosis

...is or the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel is often a condition that affects people who has been dehydrated, or sitting or lying in the same position for long, like the patients in the hospitals. Scientists have developed a computer program linked to patient database that will identify hosp...

Angioplasty death risk reduced by doubling drug dose

...A small synthetic tube - stent is used to hold the vessel open, but arteries often re-close if blood clots form to protect the body against bleeding. Patients commonly take the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) before angioplasty to prevent clotting. In this new study, patients received either the standard dose of...

Angioplasty death risk reduced by doubling drug dose

...A small synthetic tube - stent is used to hold the vessel open, but arteries often re-close if blood clots form to protect the body against bleeding. Patients commonly take the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) before angioplasty to prevent clotting. In this new study, patients received either the standard dose of...

Air pollution to affect diabetes patients’ cardiovascular risks

...s of pollutant particles and have found that blood vessel reactions were most hampered by higher concentrations of black carbon and sulfate particles. These are most caused by heavy flow of traffic and power plants that burn heavy amounts of coal. They had used the technique of brachial artery ultrasound to...

Artificially made protein to inhibit angiogenesis

... or skin cancer called melanoma, reduced the blood vessel proliferation by up to two third of its growth. The protein is all set to stop vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) where it is produced. The new protein with its amino acid tail will stop the VEGF from leaving the site of production inside the ...

Risk of deep vein thrombosis less in people who were flight stockings when flying

...is or the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel is often a condition that affects people who has been dehydrated, or sitting or lying in the same position for long, like the patients in the hospitals. The research reports showed that only two of the 1237 people who wore the graduated stockings s...

Scientists Unveil Mechanism Behind Resistance to Severe Malaria

...nother, to uninfected red blood cells and to blood vessel walls. These phenomena — known respectively as agg...n parasite-infected red blood cells stick to blood vessel walls, the resulting inflammation may increase the severity of malarial symptoms, explains Dr. Welle...