News tagged with endovascular treatment
MDCT angiography leads to successful treatment of severely blocked arteries in the legs
MDCT angiography leads to accurate recommendations for successful treatment of patients with critical limb ischemia, sometimes allowing the patients to avoid more complicated surgery, according to a study performed at the ...
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Interventional radiologists advance MS research: Vein-opening treatment safe
Understanding that angioplasty -- a medical treatment used by interventional radiologists to widen the veins in the neck and chest to improve blood flow -- is safe may encourage additional studies for its use as a treatment ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Interventional radiology treatment takes blood pressure to new lows -- and results last
Interventional radiologists have completed the first human randomized controlled trial of therapeutic renal denervation or RDN—a procedure that uses a catheter-based probe inserted into the renal artery ...
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Mar 28, 2011 |
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The Medical Minute: What is an abdominal aortic aneurysm?
There are approximately 200,000 people each year found to have an abdominal aortic aneurysm and about 32,000 are repaired electively each year.
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Feb 10, 2011 |
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Rare form of stroke during pregnancies, post-partum underreported
A rare and often underreported form of stroke that involves veins instead of arteries is more common than previously thought, according to the American Heart Association’s first scientific statement on diagnosing and ...
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Feb 04, 2011 |
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Treating complex brain aneurysms without open surgery
A new device to treat brain aneurysms with stents improves access to the blood vessels allowing endovascular neurosurgeons to offer the minimally invasive technique to patients with complex cases. Dr. Demetrius Lopes, an ...
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Jan 19, 2011 |
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Improvements within 1 hour of stroke treatment associated with better outcomes
Patients with stroke who experience improvement within one hour of receiving the clot-dissolving medication tissue plasminogen activator appear more likely to do well three months later, according to a report in the November ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 08, 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.
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Oct 05, 2010 |
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New studies question vascular multiple sclerosis hypothesis and treatment
Two important new studies challenge the controversial hypothesis that venous congestion -- chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) -- contributes to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS). This theory has resulted ...
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Aug 02, 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 ...
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Jun 30, 2010 |
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Vacuum cleaner sucks up strokes
A clot vacuum cleaner that sucks out stroke-producing blockages from blood vessels in the brain sounds like science fiction.
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Jun 08, 2010 |
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