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Long-term stenting of aortic coarctation yields 77 percent success rate

Researchers from the Congenital Cardiovascular Interventional Study Consortium (CCISC) who evaluated the intermediate and long-term results of stent implantation for aortic coarctation found that cumulative intermediate success ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

To predict atherosclerosis, follow the disturbed blood flow

A new animal model of atherosclerosis has allowed researchers to identify a host of genes turned on or off during the initial stages of the process, before a plaque appears in the affected blood vessel.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers uncover novel genetic pathway responsible for triggering vascular growth

Most solid cancers can't grow beyond a limited size without an adequate blood supply and supporting vascular network. Because of this, cancer researchers have sought to understand how a tumor's vascular network develops—and, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 04, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bailout stenting successful treatment for infants with constricted aortas

Cardiac interventionalists and surgeons at University Clinic in Leuven, Belgium have achieved successful stent implantation and follow-up coarctectomy in premature infants suffering from aortic coarctation. Full findings ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Growth factor hit by cancer drugs also protects heart

A growth factor that is a common target of cancer drugs also plays an important role in the heart's response to stress, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report online this week in the Journal of ...

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created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study examines stroke risk among patients undergoing cardiac surgery

Among patients undergoing cardiac surgery, post-operative stroke occurred in approximately 2 percent, was not correlated with significant carotid artery narrowing, but was more common among patients who had combined cardiac ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dendritic cells as a new player in arteries and heart valves

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1973, Ralph M. Steinman launched a new scientific discipline when he published his discovery of the dendritic cell, an odd-shaped player in the immune system. Since then, dendritic cells have proved to ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research provides insight into development of congenital circulatory defects

University of Pittsburgh-led researchers could provide new insight into how two common congenital circulatory problems—aortic arch deformity and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)—develop in humans, as reported in the June ...

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created Jul 08, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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