News tagged with ventricular arrhythmias
Expert consensus on catheter ablation of ventricular arrhythmias
A call to action for more research to be undertaken into catheter ablation in the field of ventricular arrhythmia (VA) has been issued in a joint consensus document from the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) a registered ...
May 14, 2009 |
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Targeted drug therapy prevents exercise-induced arrhythmias
A 12-year-old Dutch boy - bedridden for three years because of an inherited cardiac arrhythmia syndrome - can now join his friends on the soccer field thanks to a discovery made by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers.
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Mar 29, 2009 |
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An angry heart can lead to sudden death, researchers find
Before flying off the handle the next time someone cuts you off in traffic, consider the latest research from Yale School of Medicine researchers that links changes brought on by anger or other strong emotions to future arrhythmias ...
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Feb 24, 2009 |
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Researchers link gene mutations to Ebstein's anomaly
Ebstein's anomaly is a rare congenital valvular heart disease. Now, in patients with this disease, researchers of the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the University of Newcastle, UK and the Max Delbrück ...
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Feb 16, 2011 |
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Study finds new possible risk factor of heart disease
Abnormal heart rate turbulence is associated with an increased risk of heart disease death in otherwise low-risk older individuals, according to a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Skin cells help to develop possible heart defect treatment in first-of-its-kind study
Using skin cells from young patients who have a severe genetic heart defect, Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have generated beating heart cells that carry the same genetic mutation. The newly created human ...
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Feb 09, 2011 |
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Shockable cardiac arrests are more common in public than home
Cardiac arrests that can be treated by electric stimulation, also known as shockable arrests, were found at a higher frequency in public settings than in the home, according to a National Institutes of Health-funded study ...
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Strict heart rate control provides no advantage over lenient approach
Strictly controlling the heart rate of patients with atrial fibrillation provides no advantage over more lenient heart rate control, experts report in a focused update of the 2006 guidelines for the management of patients ...
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Dec 20, 2010 |
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New heart failure pump works well in those awaiting transplants
An experimental pump implanted to assist the heart in patients with advanced heart failure waiting for a heart transplant works as well as approved devices, according to late-breaking clinical trial results presented at the ...
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Nov 17, 2010 |
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Cardiac MR sheds light on obscure heart muscle condition
Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC), a cardiomyopathy about which little is fully understood, is associated with heart failure (HF), stroke and ventricular arrhythmias, according to a study to be presented Nov. 17 at the ...
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Nov 17, 2010 |
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Treating heart attack with fat-derived stem cells may be safe in humans
Fat cells — liposuctioned from a patient's belly — can safely boost heart function after a heart attack, according to a first-of-its-kind study presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2010.
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Nov 16, 2010 |
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Patients receiving dialysis are at a heightened risk for sudden cardiac death
Approximately 500,000 Americans require dialysis to treat kidney disease; of that population nearly half of the deaths that occur are caused by cardiovascular disease. Dialysis patients are at elevated risk for sudden cardiac ...
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Nov 14, 2010 |
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UCLA uses new hybrid, precision heart procedures to help stop deadly arrhythmias
New techniques now being used at UCLA allow doctors to more precisely target certain areas of the heart to stop ventricular arrhythmias — serious abnormal rhythms in the heart's lower chambers — ...
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Nov 08, 2010 |
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