News tagged with femoral artery

Researchers found a way to treat ischemic pathologies

A team of researchers from CIC bioGUNE, Spain, alongside a team from Paris' Cardiovascular Research Centre (INSERM U970) have developed a new area of research which looks extremely promising as regards the development of ...

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PARTNER shows similar 1-year survival for catheter-based AVR and open AVR in high-risk patients

Less invasive catheter-based aortic valve replacement and open valve-replacement surgery have a similar one-year survival for patients at high risk for surgery.

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created Jun 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alternate route to blocked arteries safe and effective for angioplasty

In the future you may hear the doctor say: "Give me your arm and I'll do some heart surgery."

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created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Striking the right chords

Practice was nearly over when high school wrestler Darrin Ching collapsed and found himself pinned to the mat, a searing pain gripping his right temple. Alarmed, his coach and teammates huddled around and tried to get him ...

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created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

No scalpel: Minimally invasive breakthrough for men’s enlarged prostates improves symptoms

A new interventional radiology treatment that blocks blood supply to men's enlarged prostate glands shows comparable clinical results to transurethral resection of the prostate (or TURP), considered the gold standard (or ...

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created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Diseased heart valve replaced through small hole in the leg

Physicians at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center in Houston implanted a new investigational heart valve in a patient through a small puncture hole in the leg.

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created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

First in US aortic valve prosthesis implant to treat severe aortic stenosis

David H. Adams, MD, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Samin K. Sharma, MD, the Zena and Michael A. Weiner Professor and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization ...

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created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sheathless transradial intervention highly successful in treating complex lesions

Cardiologists from the Mayo Clinic performed sheathless transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to remedy complex lesions, achieving a 90% success rate with no radial complications. Standard guiding catheters ...

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created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Carotid stents associated with greater risk of stroke or death than carotid endarterectomy surgery

For patients with blockages in the carotid artery that supplies blood to the brain, carotid artery stenting (a non-surgical treatment) appears to be associated with an increased risk of both short- and long-term adverse outcomes ...

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created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New treatment for severe aortic stenosis shown to save lives, researchers say

Implantation of a new bioprosthetic-tissue valve into the hearts of patients who have severe aortic stenosis and are too sick or too old for open-heart surgery has been found to both save lives and improve the quality of ...

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created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem-cell experiment on pigs seen as step forward in repairing heart damage

A medical research team led by University of Miami doctors injected stem cells into the hearts of pigs that had been damaged by heart attacks. Within two months, the doctors said, the stem cells made the pigs' hearts good ...

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created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 5


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