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Aspirin reduces Hemorrhage recurrence

...rteries//. Ischaemic stroke is caused by a blocked artery and Hemorrhagic stroke is caused due to bleeding which is caused by artery breaks. The sudden stopping of blood to the brain cells can lead to dead of these brain cells due ...

Laser Used To Clear Blocked Arteries Preventing Amputation

...porizes blockages without damaging the surrounding artery thereby reducing the chances of clot formations af...Hawk plaque excision system, shaves blockages from artery walls with a tiny rotating blade and removes them from the body. But he adds that such procedures ar...

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

... stiffness and the calcium content in the coronary artery that supplies the heart. The results of the study ... placed over the skin in the region of the carotid artery (neck) and the femoral artery (upper thigh). The tonometer device now measures the intra-arterial pr...

Effectiveness Of Drug-Releasing Coronary Stents

... used to coat stents in patients with new coronary artery lesions. The trial called REALITY examined 1,386 p... found that the incidence of narrowing of coronary artery was 9.6 percent in the former and 11.1 percent in the latter. “A longer follow-up may be required fo...

Nerve Damage Can Be Prevented By Xenon Administration During Surgery

...ial post-operative complication following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) could be prevented by provision of xenon gas, a new study has found. // The results of this first successful clinical trial can be found in Anesthesiology journal. The researchers successfully administered xenon gas safely t...

Xenon Could Limit Nerve Damage After Stroke

...istering xenon gas to patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting so that such patients are safe fro... to 12 patients undergoing CABG on cardiopulmonary artery bypass. This treatment could revolutionize the way to treat patients suffering from strokes in whom ...

Virtual Reality Simulation Could Help In Training Surgeons

...eed for heart-lung machines. "Traditional coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery has undesirable side effects that range from cognitive loss to increased hospital stays that are believed to be related to artificial heart pumps," Cavusoglu said. "In this project, we believe that if the heart were able t...

Heart Patients Taking Anti-depressants Have Higher Risk Of Death

...antidepressant drugs while suffering from coronary artery disease increases the chances of dying.// It was f...isk factor for mortality in patients with coronary artery disease was quite unexpected," said Duke team leader Lana Watkins, Ph.D. The researchers add that th...

Pfizer Launches Viagra For Lung Disease In UK

...by elevated blood pressure levels in the pulmonary artery that carries blood to the lungs. The blood vessel disorder is frequently seen in women between the age of 20 to 40 years. More than 100,000 people worldwide are believed to suffer from this disorder. Following the launch of Revatio in Britain, Trac...

Mediterranean Diet Lowers Inflammation Levels In Elderly

...sessed yet in terms of diet, such as high coronary artery content, which we found in 200 patients. We have the blood available, we just haven't run the tests yet." It was also found that every point increase in Mediterranean Diet Score resulted in a decrease in CRP of 0.14 mg/L in women and a decrease in CR...

Carotid Stenting Can Help Patients With Silent Disease

...byterian Hospital/Columbia. Patients with carotid artery blockage have an increased risk of stroke, even if...ptomatic patients is about one in eight if carotid artery disease is treated only with medical therapy. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services currentl...

Ireland: Heart Disease Deaths Drop By Half.

...ommunity Health reports that deaths from coronary artery heart disease in Ireland has reduced by almost hal...smoking, the study reveals. Deaths from coronary artery disease in Ireland, dropped by almost 47%, between 1985 and 2000, among ages 25 to 84, and this mean...

Severe Urinary Infection Could Lead To Deadly Blood Clots

...ulmonary embolism, a condition that occurs when an artery in your lung becomes blocked. Patrick Vallance of the University College London, a co-author of the study, says researchers should conduct follow-up studies to see if interventions to treat temporary inflammation, for example following an operatio...

Neck Artery Treatment Apart From Clearing Plaques Boosts Memory

...essel wall and then implant the stent, to keep the artery open. Dr. Raabe's research team said that stenting typically improves blood flow to the brain. But it an also occasionally unleash a temporary shower of microdebris that can disrupt brain functions resulting in fatal strokes. The team of scientist s...

Trans-radial Angiograms: A Boon For Cardiac Patients

...of several hours associated with a // conventional artery study, she was watching TV within minutes and back.... "Conventionally, this has been done through an artery in the groin - the femoral artery. Newer techniques that are now available include trans-radial and ...

Surprise Cure for Marfan syndrome

...he aorta from weakening but also seems to heal the artery if it's already been damaged. Statistics shows that Marfan syndrome approximately affects 30,000 people in the United States. The main feature of this disease is that patients live with the constant risk of sudden death if his or her weakened aort...

Link Between Obesity And Heart Disease Revealed

...k between obesity, type two diabetes, and coronary artery disease, all of which are increasing at epidemic rates." The findings were presented to the Experimental Biology 2006 conference in San Francisco. "It has been recognised for several years that fat cells stored up around the body secrete hormon...

Fat cells lethally connected to heart disease

...ink between obesity, type 2 diabetes, and coronary artery disease, all of which are increasing at epidemic rates. A better understanding of how epicardial adipocytes sense and respond to inflammation and ischemia could lead to new, rationally designed therapies for heart disease." Professor Jeremy Pearson...

Fat Cells Can Trigger Heart Diseases

...nk between obesity, type II diabetes, and coronary artery disease, which are all increasing at an epidemic rate. He suggested that on trying to understand better as to how the epicardial adipocytes sense and respond to inflammation and ischemia could lead to new, rational design for therapies on heart disea...

Surgery Simulators Offer Better Surgeons And Safer Surgeries

...iques -- those in which a catheter is slid into an artery to repair a blockage or weak spot. The number of interventional cases has nearly doubled since 1999 and this trend is expected to continue because minimally invasive procedures, when possible, are much easier on the patient than traditional surgeries...

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