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Bone Marrow Stem Cells May Help Heart
researchers, in a study in mice, found bone marrow stem cells improve cardiac function.Study author Dr. Yerem Yeghiazarians of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues administered three different groups of mice...
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First Clinical Trials of Adult Cardiac Stem Cell Repair
LifeSiteNews 'Five years ago, we didn't even know the heart had its own distinct type of stem cells.' LOS ANGELES (LifeSiteNews.com) - Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles have announced the successful...
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First Human Receives Cardiac Stem Cells in Clinical Trial to Heal Damage Caused By Heart Attacks
LOS ANGELES, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Doctors at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute announced today the completion of the first procedure in which a patient's own heart tissue was used to grow specialized heart stem cells that...
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Sunnybrook performs minimally invasive bypass surgery
Fuad Moussa (right) with his patient, Doug Boychuk, five weeks after Mr.Boychuk received minimally invasive bypass surgery at Sunnybrook. By Laurie Legere Sunnybrook's Schulich Heart Centre became the first centre in Toronto to...
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First in Canada: Baby has heart procedure while inside her mother's womb
The McKenzie family gathers around its little miracle, Ocane, after doctors at SickKids and Mount Sinai Hospital successfully perform a lifesaving heart intervention in utero - a Canadian first.Photo credit: Robert Teteruck By...
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In-Hospital Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea During Decompensation of Heart Failure
Rami N.Khayat , MD, FCCP (Rami. Khayat{at}osumc.edu), William T. Abraham , MD, Brian Patt , BS, Min Pu , MD and David Jarjoura , PhD The Ohio State University Sleep Heart Program (Drs. Khayat, Abraham, and Jargoura, and Mr.
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Bone Marrow Stem Cells May Help Heart
researchers, in a study in mice, found bone marrow stem cells improve cardiac function.Study author Dr. Yerem Yeghiazarians of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues administered three different groups of mice...
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Center Receives Grant Renewal For Hypertension And Vascular Disease Studies
The Hypertension and Vascular Research Center at Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received renewal of a multi-million dollar grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to...
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Christ Hospital Initiative Reduces Door-to-Balloon Time
It wasn't too long ago that door-to-balloon time (DTBT) for patients presenting to the emergency department with acute MI typically was greater than 400 minutes.In 2005, The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, formed a multidisciplinary team of...
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Center Receives Grant Renewal for Hypertension and Vascular Disease Studies
million grant, a five-year renewal of an existing award, will provide major funding for the center's basic science component.It will support ongoing projects that investigate the causes and cures of high blood pressure and vascular...
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Vascular Solutions, Inc.recently launched its new Muskie line of 0.014 guidewires. Muskie guidewires offer a range of distal tip stiffness that allow physicians to select an appropriate guidewire for crossing highly stenosed lesions.
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Ask the Clinical Instructor: Questions are answered by Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
When I look at the aortic pressure on the monitor during a case, I notice the little line running across the middle.They tell me that is a mean arterial pressure. Why do I need to know that? Virginia CVT student The mean arterial...
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ARMYDA-RECAPTURE published: Statin reload before PCI
Rome, Italy - The Atorvastatin for Reduction of Myocardial Damage During Angioplasty-Acute Coronary Syndromes (ARMYDA) RECAPTURE study, a trial that showed that the addition of a high-dose statin prior to PCI in statin-treated patients...
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In TBI Study, Hypertonic Saline No More Effective than Normal Saline
Enrollment for a clinical trial on the effects of highly concentrated (hypertonic) saline solutions on patients with severe traumatic brain injury was stopped early after it was determined that the hypertonic solutions were no better than...
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Scientists Find Heart Stem Cells
Key to the heart?Scientists have identified what they say are the heart's 'master' stem cells? Credit: Lei Bu et al., Nature 460, 113 (2009) ScienceNOW Daily News Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that...
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Could Stem Cells Patch Up a Broken Heart?
Scientists have identified the master stem cell that gives rise to the three types of heart cells, possibly opening the door for new methods of pharmaceutical research and heart therapies, such as growing a patch to repair ...
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Bone Marrow Extract Improves Cardiac Function
Using a novel, closed-chest, ultrasound-guided injection technique developed by Yeghiazarians and his colleagues, the team administered three different groups of mice with bone marrow cells, bone marrow cell extract, or saline (for the...
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Stem Cell Transplantation For Cardiac Repair And Limb Ischemia
The frontiers of cell transplantation for cardiac repair are discussed in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (Vol.18 No.3), now available on-line without charge at. Two studies are highlighted, one by a Brazil-based...
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Center receives grant renewal for hypertension and vascular disease studies
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.The Hypertension and Vascular Research Center at Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received renewal of a multi-million dollar grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National...
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Colloid preload increases cardiac output after spinal anesthesia for cesareans
MedWire News: Administering crystalloid IV fluids before the induction of spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery increases maternal cardiac output during the first 5 minutes after spinal anesthesia, say researchers.However, they...
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Patient Receives Infusion of Own Cardiac Cells to Repair Damage from MI
Physicians at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles reported that they have successfully used a patient's own heart tissue from a small biopsy to grow heart stem cells.These cells were reintroduced into the patient's...
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New EHRA programme to review training of medical device industry: Optimal patient care requires all involve
'Our ultimate aim is to ensure optimal care for our patients.Health care professionals need to keep up to date with the latest technology available, and to offer patients access to the best healthcare at reasonable costs. We are also...
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Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke s Episcopal Hospital completes 200th successful case using CardiacAssist s T
PITTSBURGH-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CardiacAssist Inc.announced today the successful completion of the 200th procedure by Houston-based Texas Heart Institute (THI) at St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital using the FDA-cleared and CE-Marked...
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Human cardiac master stem cells identified
What is truly groundbreaking about the study, and has enormous implications in terms of the future treatment of heart disease, Kenneth Chien says, is that the study provides a new way of understanding heart disease at it appears...
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Few survive cardiac arrest, even with hospital CPR
You dont have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes.Only about 18...
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