News tagged with unclogging arteries
Statin cuts heart problems after artery surgery
(AP) -- Score another victory for the cheap, cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs known as statins. People getting an artery unclogged or repaired were much less likely to die or have a heart attack afterward if they took preventive ...
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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Treating the aging knee as an organ
The human body is made up of several organs composed of tissues that enable them to perform a particular function. The heart circulates blood; the brain is the micro-neuro center of the body; the lungs bring in oxygen and ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Supplementing angiograms with other probe saves money as well as lives, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new interventional heart technology that can help patients avoid needless stenting operations has now been found to also save money as well as lives.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Doctors face board specialty 'expiration dates'
(AP) -- The next time you're at the doctor's office, take a peek at those certificates hanging on the wall. Like gallons of milk, some of them are expiring.
Apr 05, 2010 |
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Study shows stroke incidence related to angioplasty remains steady over past 15 years
Results of a Mayo Clinic study show the incidence of stroke or mini-stroke related to a coronary angioplasty remained steady over a 15-year period. Researchers say this is good news because physicians now are performing the ...
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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For old or young dialysis patients, AV fistulas remain pure gold
A new study shows that for those individuals with chronic kidney disease, it doesn't matter if you're young or old: arteriovenous (AV) fistulas remain the gold standard for maintaining access to one's circulatory system to ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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New tool could prevent needless stents and save money, cardiologist says
Doctors may be implanting too many artery-opening stents and could improve patient outcomes — and ultimately save lives — if they did more in-depth measurements of blood flow in the vessels to the heart. That's the finding ...
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Getting to the Heart of Stents
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the Canadian Light Source, a team of researchers from Quebec’s Laval University and Australia’s La Trobe University has discovered how to improve the nanometers-thick layer of polymer ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 09, 2008 |
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