News tagged with transplant cardiology
New specialty to focus on advanced heart failure and heart transplantation
The new medical subspecialty of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology will lead the way in providing technically advanced yet cost-effective care for patients with heart failure, says a perspective article in the ...
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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Researchers develop new muscular dystrophy treatment approach using human stem cells
Researchers from the University of Minnesota's Lillehei Heart Institute have effectively treated muscular dystrophy in mice using human stem cells derived from a new process that – for the first time – makes the ...
May 04, 2012 |
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Simple injection could limit damage from heart attacks and stroke
(PhysOrg.com) -- This weeks Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) will publish a fascinating new milestone achievement in the search for novel clinical therapies to significantly reduce the lo ...
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Apr 18, 2011 |
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2011 Heart Failure Programs Staffing Profile survey results released
The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), American Heart Association (AHA) and the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) today released results of a recently conducted survey to determine the current staffing ...
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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Brain tumor treatment successful in healing rare heart condition
Serendipity may have saved 32-year-old Jamie Arliss’ life. A rare tumor discovered in her heart had stumped cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center. They wanted to remove the mass, but traditional ...
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Mar 25, 2011 |
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Specialized blood vessels jumpstart and sustain liver regeneration
The liver's unique ability among organs to regenerate itself has been little understood. Now Weill Cornell Medical College scientists have shed light on how the liver restores itself by demonstrating that endothelial cells ...
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Nov 12, 2010 |
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Gene test aims for better heart disease detection
It's not a perfect test. Yet researchers report a key step for the first gene test aimed at reducing unnecessary angiograms - expensive and somewhat risky procedures that hundreds of thousands of Americans have each year ...
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Oct 04, 2010 |
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Selected cells from blood or bone marrow may provide a route to healing blood vessels
Isolating cells from a patient's blood or bone marrow that nourish blood vessels may be a safer and less arduous route to treatment of cardiovascular disease than obtaining rare stem cells, according to research from Emory ...
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Aug 13, 2010 |
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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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Aug 02, 2010 |
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Viral infection predicts heart transplant loss in children
Scientists report that viral infection of the heart is a predictor of heart transplant failure in young children and adolescents, although it can be detected by screening for viral genes and treated to improve organ survival.
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Aug 02, 2010 |
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New ISHLT cardiac allograft vasculopathy standardized nomenclature
Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), the major limitation to long term survival after heart transplantation, occurs when blood vessels in a transplanted heart progressively narrow and lead to dysfunction of the heart muscle ...
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Jun 25, 2010 |
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