Implanted Devices Detect High-Risk Heart Failure Patients
...table devices are the latest options in preventing arrhythmias that can lead to sudden death, with CRT-Ds being the latest technology. CRT-Ds perform two main functions. First, the devices electrically stimulate both sides of the heart in coordinated fashion, which optimizes the contractability of already weake...Study Finds Moderate Hypothermia A Safe Treatment For Traumatic Brain Injury In Kids
...rtality, infection, coagulopathy (blood clotting), arrhythmias and hemorrhage as well as ability to maintain target temperature, mean intracranial pressure (ICP), and percent time of ICP less than 20 mm Hg during the cooling and subsequent rewarming phases. Additionally, assessments of neurocognitive outcomes we...Gene variation increases SIDS risk in African Americans
...nd the previous use of mexiletine by patients with arrhythmias "suggests a strategy for prophylactic therapy," they stress that their results "need to be replicated and the risks and benefits of treatment assessed" before screening programs are designed or drugs given to infants at risk to prevent SIDS. Repetit...Engineered heart tissue offers insights into irregular heartbeats, defibrillator failure
... the anatomy is so complex that mechanisms of such arrhythmias are difficult to dissect systematically." In the...reasingly common for patients who have experienced arrhythmias and are therefore at increased risk for future rhythm abnormalities, Bursac said. In patients with ...Progress being made in exploring potential use of stem cells to treat heart disease
...ients' heart tissue to avoid such complications as arrhythmias (irregular heart beat) Solving immunological issues surrounding rejection "Exciting new findings over the past 5 years indicate that stem cells could prove effective as protective or regenerative cardiac therapies," says Ivey, who was named in Ap...Skipped heartbeats should not be ignored
...eeded. Most people will have experienced so-called arrhythmias from time to time, in other words a missed heart beat, or a feeling of fluttering in the chest. Arrhythmias arise from a lack of co-ordination of the electrical activity which keeps the heart beat regular. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic offer some advi...Stress can Trigger Heart Problems
...tress. They included patients who were at risk for arrhythmias and healthy patients. For the study, researchers measured mental stress by having patients recall a recent incident that made them angry and also by having them figure out a math problem while being interrupted and told to improve their performance....A New Option for Patients Suffering From QT Syndrome
...a-blockers can also slow the heartbeat and prevent arrhythmias in LQTS patients. However, about a fourth of patients continue to experience symptoms while on the medication. One current treatment method involves an implanted defibrillator that automatically delivers a shock to the heart with an irregular rhyth...Strong emotions can cause heart problems
...ut of the 56 shocks recorded during the study, the arrhythmias that lead to shocks had begun from heart flutters were preceded by anger of more than 2 in the scale of intensity. After feeling the anger, the patients had undergone rapid muscle contractions in their heart that have the potential to cause cardiac a...Ordinary drugs can interfere with death from cardiac problems
...sults of such activities are often seen in causing arrhythmias of the heart. Such kinds of drugs are cisapride and domperidone (GI drugs), chlorpromazine, haloperidol and pimozide (anti-psychotics) and erythromycin and clarithomycin (antibiotics). The highest level of risk of sudden cardiac death is from admini...New Data for Cytogen's QUADRAMET Reported at Annual ASCO Meeting
...%), infection (7%), spinal cordcompression (6.5%), arrhythmias (5%), and hematuria (5%). Patientswho receive QUADRAMET should be advised that for several hoursfollowing administration, radioactivity will be present in excretedurine. To help protect themselves and others in their environment,precautions need to b......%), infection (7%), spinal cordcompression (6.5%), arrhythmias (5%), and hematuria (5%). Patientswho receive QUADRAMET should be advised that for several hoursfollowing administration, radioactivity will be present in excretedurine. To help protect themselves and others in their environment,precautions need to b......lazine shows there was noadverse trend in death or arrhythmias in patients on ranolazine.The study did not meet the primary efficacy endpoint. In accordance with the company's special protocol assessmentagreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), thecompany believes that the data could support e...