News tagged with balloon angioplasty
Related topics: coronary artery , heart attack , myocardial infarction , coronary artery disease
Canada okays 'liberation therapy' trials
Canada will fund clinical trials for a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment that targets blocked neck veins, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Wednesday.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Heart surgery wait times down in Alberta and BC
New data from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine shows that wait times for a number of heart surgeries have gone down close to 50 per cent in Alberta and British Columbia.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Study supports fixing heart valves without surgery
(AP) -- Many people with a bad aortic valve may soon be able to avoid open-heart surgery and have a new one placed through a tube in an artery instead.
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Study examines outcomes of high-dose antiplatelet drug after stent placement
Modifying a patient's dosage of the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel for 6 months depending on the patient's level of platelet reactivity did not result in combined lower rates of nonfatal heart attack, stent thrombosis (clot) ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 15, 2011 |
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Genetic variations linked with worse outcomes with use of antiplatelet drug for cardiac procedures
An analysis of data from previously published studies indicates that use of the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel for patients who have common genetic variants of a certain gene and are undergoing a procedure such as coronary ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 26, 2010 |
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'Paradigm shift' in how physicians treat peripheral artery disease
A balloon angioplasty device that sucks up dangerous plaque debris could trigger a "paradigm shift" in how physicians treat peripheral artery disease, researchers write in the current issue of Endovascular Today.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Placement of type of pump within the aorta prior to PCI not associated with improved outcomes
High-risk patients undergoing a coronary procedure such as placement of a stent who electively received an intra-aortic balloon pump (a device that can help improve blood flow) prior to the procedure did not experience a ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 24, 2010 |
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Health care system delay may increase risk of death for heart patients receiving reperfusion therapy
For patients with a certain type of heart attack, delay in the time between first contact with emergency medical service to initiation of therapy such as balloon angioplasty is associated with an increased risk of death, ...
Aug 17, 2010 |
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University at Buffalo launches clinical trial of new multiple sclerosis treatment
Buffalo medical researchers led by a team from the University at Buffalo Department of Neurosurgery, will embark on a landmark prospective randomized double-blinded study to test the safety and efficacy of interventional ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 30, 2010 |
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Study identifies treatments associated with lower bleeding rates following cardiac procedures
In a study that included data from more than 1.5 million patients, use of vascular closure devices and the anticoagulant bivalirudin were associated with significantly lower bleeding rates for patients following a percutaneous ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Immediate intervention for patients with ACS not always more beneficial
For some patients with acute coronary syndromes, the strategy of immediate intervention at a medical center does not appear to result in differences in outcomes in comparison with an intervention performed the next working ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Genetic variation associated with poorer response, cardiovascular outcomes with use of clopidogrel
Patients with a certain genetic variation who received the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel had a decreased platelet response to treatment and among those who had percutaneous coronary intervention (procedures such as balloon ...
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Aug 25, 2009 |
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