News tagged with angiograms
Supplementing angiograms with other probe saves money as well as lives, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new interventional heart technology that can help patients avoid needless stenting operations has now been found to also save money as well as lives.
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Dec 15, 2010 |
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CT angiography may be unnecessary in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism
A new study suggests that computed tomography (CT) angiography might be unnecessary in many patients suspected of having pulmonary embolism (PE), based on the results of risk assessment analysis. PE risk assessment could ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
(AP) -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an ...
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Mar 10, 2010 |
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Twins joined at head successfully separated (Update 2)
(AP) -- A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain ...
Nov 17, 2009 |
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First near-total face and upper-jaw transplant appears successful
More than a year and a half following the first near-total face and upper jaw transplant, the donor tissue appears successfully integrated, according to a report in the November/December issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Clots traveling from lower veins may not be the cause of pulmonary embolism in trauma patients
A report from a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physicians calls into question the longstanding belief that pulmonary embolism (PE) - the life-threatening blockage of a major blood vessel in the lungs - is caused ...
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Coronary imaging techniques helps to identify plaques likely to cause heart attacks
Late-breaking results from the PROSPECT clinical trial shed new light on the types of vulnerable plaque that are most likely to cause sudden, unexpected adverse cardiac events, and on the ability to identify them through ...
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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Enzyme is key to clogged arteries
Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have made an important discovery in understanding what causes arteries to clog up.
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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Pediatric strokes more than twice as common as previously reported
Imaging studies along with diagnostic codes on medical charts show that the rate of strokes in infants and children is two to four times higher than commonly thought, researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American He ...
Sep 17, 2009 |
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