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Atypical ST Segment Elevation and Ventricular Fibrillation without Structural Heart Disease: A New Electrocardiographic Presentation of a Channelopathy
Lebreiro A et al.The authors report the case of a 52yearold patient who was admitted for syncope and had an inhospital episode of ventricular fibrillation, who presented with an admission ECG showing marked precordial ST segment elevation. Atypical ST...
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Scientists Identify Key Mechanism That Guides Cells to Form Heart Tissue
Heart Disease News Font Size Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a key cellular mechanism that guides embryonic heart tissue formation.If this process is disrupted, it can...
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Imaging Fat Layer around Heart Can Help Predict Disease
The size of the layer of fat around the heart can be measured by X-ray imaging techniques such as CT or MRI.'This information may be used as a 'gate keeper', in that it could help a cardiologist decide whether a patient should go on to have a nuclear...
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Arteries can be Cleared by Technology to Control Turbulence in Water Pipes
Heart Disease News Font Size A new study says that a new technology to keep turbulence down in pipes could actually keep arteries clear and save lives.In an effort to help lower the cost of pumping fluids through pipelines, U.S. and German...
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New study to show how our body clock controls disease
New treatments for inflammatory lung diseases and a host of other conditions could be developed following a study into the impact of circadian rhythms th or body clock th at The University of Manchester.(Media-Newswire.com) - New treatments for inflammatory...
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Are Stock Market Woes Bad for the Heart?
SATURDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- When the stock market declines, do heart attacks go up?That's what Duke University Medical Center researchers are wondering based on an analysis of data collected during the current U.S? economic crisis. ...
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Intensive Statin Tx Cuts CVEs in Kidney Disease Patients
By Ed Susman, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Published: March 18, 2010 Action Points * Explain to interested patients that this study by the manfacturer of atorvastatin (Lipitor) suggests that heart disease patients with kidney disease and who have...
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CryoLife, Inc. (CRY) Comments on Status of Medafor, Inc. Distribution Agreement
ATLANTA, March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --- CryoLife, Inc., an implantable biological medical device and cardiovascular tissue processing company, today responded to Medafor's allegation that it has repudiated the Exclusive Distribution Agreement (...
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TopAbstracts in Congestive Heart Failure 03/18/2010
Recent news - Congestive Heart Failure Atrial Fibrillation Increases Mortality Risk in Heart Failure, but Only With Underlying Ischaemic Heart Disease: Presented at ACC- (DGDispatch) Hydralazine, Isosorbide Dinitrate Benefits Patients...
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Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Physicians Present Findings At American College Of Cardiology Scientific Meeting
Physician scientists from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute presented new findings on the effectiveness of routine aspirin therapy for preventing heart disease, a drug therapy for atrial fibrillation and the role left ventricular assist devices ...
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Physician scientists present new findings on aspirin therapy, atrial fibrillation drug therapy and LVAD
Physician scientists from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute presented new findings on the effectiveness of routine aspirin therapy for preventing heart disease, a drug therapy for atrial fibrillation and the role left ventricular assist devices ...
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World Trade Center Workers Have Heart Abnormalities
Heart Disease News Font Size New research indicates that the World Trade Center collapse has caused potentially dangerous heart problems in responders on-site.Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine conducted the analyses of 1,236...
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Thoracic Aortic Disease - New Guidelines to Understand the Disease
Heart Disease News Font Size New guidelines has enabled a better understanding of Thoracic Aortic Disease , which is a rare but extremely serious condition which causes the death of about 10,000 Americans annually.Now, new clinical...
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Heart Disease: More Accurate Prediction
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new measure more accurately predicts risk for cardiac disease and death, according to recent research.The Intermountain Risk Score, a measurement tool that looks at age and sex, but also adds the results of routine blood tests not...
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Venous Thromboembolic Disease in Congestive Heart Failure
Congest Heart Fail.Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a medical condition associated with a relatively high risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Without thromboprophylaxis, venographically proven deep vein thrombosis occurs in 10% to 22% of...
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TopAbstracts in Stroke 03/18/2010
TopAbstracts in Stroke are the abstracts most highly rated/most read by nearly 300,000 physicians who received a Doctor's Guide newsletter or visited a website Powered by Doctor's Guide in the past 14 days.Over 2000 peer-reviewed journals are covered by...
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Evidence-Based Medication Adherence in Hispanic Patients With Systolic Heart Failure in a Disease Management Program
Congest Heart Fail.The Hispanic population is the fastest growing minority in the United States, yet there is a paucity of data regarding patient follow-up in heart failure disease management programs (HFDMPs) and evidence-based medication...
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Treatment effects of low dose theophylline combined with an inhaled corticosteroid in COPD
Paul A Ford , PhD, Andrew L Durham , PhD, Richard EK Russell , PhD, F Gordon , PhD*, Ian M Adcock , PhD and Peter J Barnes , FRS Airway Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom &*Statistical...
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Clinical Trials Update: March 19, 2010
(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com: Heart Disease To qualify for this study of coronary arteries and heart disease, you must have high cholesterol, be taking a cholesterol medication, or...
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Free Colorectal Cancer Screening Kits at Hospital
More Clinical Affairs News Texas Company Giving its ERs Support to Run More Efficiently Dallas Morning News Mar.19, 2010 Targeting Two Important Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease Osceola Sentinel Tribune Mar. 19, 2010 No Full Record of Where...
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Four Flu Deaths in Region this Year
More Clinical Affairs News Texas Company Giving its ERs Support to Run More Efficiently Dallas Morning News Mar.19, 2010 Targeting Two Important Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease Osceola Sentinel Tribune Mar. 19, 2010 No Full Record of Where...
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Targeting Two Important Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular diseases being a prevalent concern for diabetics due to higher levels of LDL cholesterol in their systems, the ADA emphasizes the importance of a healthy diet and increased exercise regimen in helping maintain healthy cholesterol and blood sugar...
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SIR: Cryotherapy Conserves the Breast
Preliminary results of a study indicate that a new treatment for breast cancer can be more effective yet less invasive then many current options.While the study is small, the 14 patients treated have been monitored for 6 years with no local recurrences and...
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Obesity Boot Camps Not The Answer; But Gym Class Is.
Obesity boot camps are not the answer to the nation's waistline problem, says Deborah J.Wray, associate professor in the department of kinesiology at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. "Many programs have developed out of a desire to take advantage...
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ACC Feature: SORTing OUT Endeavors inferiority to Cypher
ATLANTAThe Endeavor stent was found to be inferior to the Cypher stent in routine clinical care patients at 18-month follow-up, according to the all comers SORT OUT III trial presented Monday at the late breaking clinical trials session during the 59th American...
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