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Debate Focuses on Door-to-balloon Time in Heart Attack Treatment

...sufficiently valid that a hospital unable to offer percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) within that time frame should consider treating patients with clot-busting medications, rather than transporting them to a PCI-capable hospital. "Otherwise, those patients are paying a penalty for using PCI," he said. Th...

Angioplasty Reduces Long-term Cardiac Risk in Heart Patients With 'silent' Ischemia

When compared with intensive drug therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI, angioplasty) was more beneficial in reducing the long-term risk of major cardiac events among heart attack survivors with 'silent ischemia', according to a study. Cardiac ischemia is caused by insufficient blood flow to...

Stimulating the Ankle Can Help Patients With Overactive Bladder

...le to better help control the bladder. "Known as percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS), this is one of the least invasive forms of neurostimulation for urological conditions, such as overactive bladder and urge incontinence," says Jenelle Foote, MD, an Emory Crawford Long Hospital urologist. "We can now ...

Off-label and Untested Use of Drug-coated Stents Appears Widespread

...ls, and consisting of 7,752 patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI, balloon angioplasty) between January and June 2005. The study objective was to determine the frequency, safety, and effectiveness of drug-eluting stents for off-label and untested indications. Off-label indications include...

New Balloon Catheter Available Worldwide for Carotid and Renal Angioplasty

... States in 2002. As with other Cordis Endovascular percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) catheters, the AVIATOR(TM) Plus gets its strength from Cordis' market leading DURALYN(R) Balloon Material which allows for precise and consistent inflation diameters. "The AVIATOR(TM) Plus is one of only two carotid i...

Cryoablation: A New Treatment Option for Some Kidney Tumor Patients

...archers report that freezing kidney tumors through percutaneous cryoablation shows promise for patients who are no...not able to have surgery because of other factors, percutaneous cryoablation may be an option. “This procedure appears to be a good option for some patients,” say...

Low-dose Aspirin Beats High-dose After Cardiac Surgery

... or chest pain related to arterial damage) undergo percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI, including stenting), a significant concern among cardiologists is the risk of major internal bleeding. Aspirin (ASA) acts as a blood thinner to prevent clotting complications, but high levels can cause potentially serious...

Freezing Kidney Tumors Effective and Less Expensive Than Laparoscopy

...tific Meeting. The comparative trial shows that percutaneous cryoablation results in a slightly lower recurrenc... time. “This early stage research indicates that percutaneous cryoablation in the appropriate patient population can effectively kill tumors, while also offering ...

First Keyhole Heart Valve Surgery Scheduled in Britain

... a team of cardiologists. The surgery is termed as percutaneous aortic valve replacement. This technique called the key hole technique was first performed in France. The novelty of this surgery is that it avoids open-heart surgery. During the one-hour surgery the new valve will be introduced into a blood vesse...

Drug Therapy Offers Little Benefit for Some Patients Undergoing Angioplasty or Stent Procedure

...e article. Reperfusion (restoring blood flow) with percutaneous transluminal coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) is highly effective at improving outcomes in patients with acute STEMI, especially if delivered promptly in an...

A New Approach to Heart Bypass Surgery Provides Patients with 'One-stop Shopping'

...-heart surgeries, like coronary bypass, as well as percutaneous coronary interventions and procedures, including a...e minimally invasive cardiac surgery combined with percutaneous coronary interventions.” David Zhao, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine and director of the car...

New Technique Destroys Kidney Tumors By Freezing Them

... MN has found that a non-invasive technique called percutaneous cryoablation //can be of significance in killing k...hers treated 59 kidney tumors in 58 patients using percutaneous (through the skin) cryoablation. The researchers found that the tumors were destroyed in 57 of the 5...

Image-Guided Biopsy Can Alter Clinical Decisions In Kidney Patients

...searchers from the University of Michigan say that percutaneous image-guided biopsy is of a great help in kidney d...lude an open surgical procedure or an image-guided percutaneous biopsy. Percutaneous means that the procedure is performed through the skin, through a tiny incision...

Shock Wave Therapy Increase The Risk Of Diabetes

...o look at it in terms of treatment alternatives -- percutaneous stone removal [removing a kidney stone through a small incision in the patient’s back using an instrument called a nephroscope] or ureteroscopy [snaring a stone with a small instrument passed into the ureter through the bladder and then breaking up t...

Stem Cell Therapy For Heart Attack Found To Be Ineffective

...tients had undergone angioplasty and other similar percutaneous coronary intervention procedures for opening up a narrowed coronary artery. They were assigned to receive either G-CSF or a placebo for 5 days following treatment. A daily dose of 10 μg/kg of the growth factor was given in the form of an injection. ...

Drug-Eluting Stents Ensure Patency Of The Saphenous Vein Grafts

...greater in the saphenous vein grafts compared with percutaneous interventional procedure involving the native coronary arteries. The new stents were found to reduce the risk of re-stenosis by as much as 4 times compared to commercially available stents. Out of the 223 patients who underwent angioplasty for tre...

Percutaneous aortic valve replacement- a revolution in Cardiac Surgery

...ss invasive, therapeutic surgical technique called percutaneous aortic valve replacement that is becoming a reality. The surgical procedure has given hope for a number of patients who cannot currently be treated with traditional surgical techniques. The surgery has been performed successfully in a cardiac care ...

Medicines Used In Antiplatelet Therapy Can Reduce Heart Attacks And Strokes

...ssue of JAMA. Dual antiplatelet therapy following percutaneous coronary intervention using a combination of drugs such as ticlopidine or clopidogrel along with aspirin helps reduce platelet activation and thrombotic and ischemic complications. However, the optimal timing of the initiation of clopidogrel has been...

Heart Attack Patients Reaching Hospital During Off-Hours Have Increased Risk Of Death

...therapy (medication for dissolving blood clots) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as angioplasty in which a catheter-guided balloon is used to open a narrowed coronary artery) reduces the risk of death for eligible ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI; a certain finding on a...

Patients Fare Better With Doctors Who Do More Angioplasty Procedures

...ory for the minimally invasive procedures known as percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). The researchers say their data, from 18,504 artery-opening procedures done in 14 Michigan hospitals by 165 physicians during 2002, reflects current angioplasty care, including advanced clot-preventing drugs and devices ...

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