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Angioplasty
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Angioplasty
Biotech market 'open' 02 Oct 2005
...existing cancer drug. Research eventually found the drug could be used for coating a stent used in angioplasty procedures. Since co ...
- London Free Press
The color of grief 02 Oct 2005
She scours the autopsy report and compares the cause of death with Dunne's medical records dating back to 1987, when he had an angioplasty. ...
- Chicago Sun-Times
High court's help sought in release of security chief 02 Oct 2005
...certificate issued by the hospital showed that he was to undergo coronary and cerebral arteriography with the possibility of coronary angioplasty and stenting ...
- Sun Star
Manipal: KMC doctors set right heart defect through a novel way 02 Oct 2005
...improvement of facilities available. The latest technology of angioplasty using drug eluting stent is also available in the centre.
- Bellevision
Trial Will Look At Widening Angioplasty's Reach Sep 29, 2005
29 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are launching a nationwide study of more than 16,000 patients to determine if heart angioplasty can be safely performed in ...
- Forbes
Study of hospitals providing rapid heart attack angioplasty Sep 29, 2005
Cardiology, An in-depth look at hospitals that reduced treatment delays highlights steps other hospitals could take to provide rapid angioplasty treatment to ...
- RxPG NEWS
Drugs Offer Angioplasty Alternative Sep 19, 2005
They should rush the patient to a cardiac catheterization lab for angioplasty, opening the blocked artery with a balloon and, probably, a stent. ...
- New York Times
Boston Scientific OK'd to market angioplasty device Sep 17, 2005
Natick-based Boston Scientific Corp. received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to market its new balloon for angioplasty. ...
- Boston Globe
Ohio hospitals want to participate in angioplasty study Sep 19, 2005
One cardiologist there says patients often say they dislike the idea of having to travel to have an angioplasty and wish Adena offered them.
- WKYC-TV
An alternative to angioplasty Sep 21, 2005
They should rush the patient to a cardiac catheterisation lab for angioplasty, opening the blocked artery with a balloon and, probably, a stent. ...
- Times of India
Study: Angioplasty protocol questioned Sep 6, 2005
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The common practice of giving heart attack patients a clot-busting drug within hours of planned angioplasty could be dangerous, an ...
- Miami Herald
Using Anti-Clotting Drug Before Angioplasty Cuts Risk Sep 4, 2005
Heart attack patients who start receiving the anticlotting drug clopidogrel before -- rather than during -- artery-opening angioplasty experienced almost half ...
- Forbes
Study Touts Pre-Angioplasty Superaspirin Sep 4, 2005
...drug Plavix when they arrive at the emergency room almost halved the risk of a stroke, a repeated heart attack or death within the first month after angioplasty ...
- Newsday
Genentech Drug Is Not Safe With Angioplasty Sep 7, 2005
...and Boehringer Ingelheim's TNKase clot-busting drug isn't safe for use with artery-clearing angioplasty, according to a study that was halted because of a ...
- Los Angeles Times
Exercise could be alternative to angioplasty Sep 12, 2005
Another surgery procedure introduced in the 1980s -- one that has had an important impact on lowering deaths due to heart disease -- is coronary angioplasty. ...
- DetNews.com
Men and women fare equally well after angioplasty Sep 5, 2005
By Will Boggs. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Gender does not affect outcome in patients who undergo angioplasty in a blocked artery in the leg. ...
- Reuters
Men, women fare equally well after angioplasty Sep 5, 2005
NEW YORK - Gender does not affect outcome in patients who undergo angioplasty in a blocked artery in the leg. Therefore, gender ...
- MSNBC
Clot Busters Before Angioplasty Linked to Increased Death Risk Sep 7, 2005
By Charlene Laino. Giving clot-busters to heart attack victims who are scheduled for balloon angioplasty could cost them their lives, new research shows. ...
- FOX News
Medicine reduces angioplasty death risk Sep 7, 2005
UPI) -- Scientists say they`ve found use of the anti-platelet drug clopidogrel reduces heart attack and cardiovascular death risks before and after angioplasty ...
- Monsters and Critics.com
Johns Hopkins launches study to determine if heart angioplasty is ... Sep 8, 2005
...at Johns Hopkins have launched a nationwide study of more than 16,000 patients to see if a potentially life-saving procedure called angioplasty can be safely ...
- EurekAlert
Study Questions Clot Busters for Angioplasty Patients Sep 7, 2005
A new study from Belgium calls into question the common practice of giving heart attack patients a clot-busting drug before they undergo angioplasty, an artery ...
- HealthCentral.com
Plavix best if used before angioplasty Sep 5, 2005
...drug Plavix when they arrive at the emergency room almost halved the risk of a stroke, another heart attack or death within the first month after angioplasty. ...
- Los Angeles Daily News
Pre-Angioplasty Superaspirin Saves Lives Sep 5, 2005
Stockholm, Sweden (24x7Updates) -- A dose of super aspirin before the procedure of angioplasty and not during it can save tens of thousands of lives, a new ...
- 24x7updates
Angioplasty study started at Johns Hopkins Sep 9, 2005
9 (UPI) -- Cardiologists at Johns Hopkins have started a study to determine if angioplasty can be safely performed in smaller, community hospitals. ...
- United Press International
Study Touts Pre-Angioplasty Superaspirin Sep 4, 2005
Angioplasty, a procedure where doctors thread a needle through the blood vessels and implant a tiny flexible mesh tube to prop open narrowed or clogged arteries ...
- Leading The Charge
Researchers Begin Study To Find Out If Angioplasty Can Be Safely ... Sep 11, 2005
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have launched a nationwide study in USA to see if the procedures of angioplasty can be safely performed in smaller hospitals. ...
- MedIndia
Angioplasty a boost for Stamford Hospital, patients Sep 14, 2005
Basel, 79, was rolled into an operating room for an emergency angioplasty, in which a stent, or metal tube, is inserted into a clogged artery to temporarily ...
- Stamford Advocate
Clopidogrel Before Angioplasty Cuts in Half Risk of Death and ... Sep 6, 2005
Hospital (BWH) finds that early use of clopidogrel, an oral antiplatelet medication, started prior to rather than at the time of angioplasty, reduces the odds ...
- PharmaLive.com (press release)
Medication helps before and after angioplasty Sep 7, 2005
The drug clopidogrel helps patients avoid heart attack or stroke when they have an angioplasty. For patients with heart problems ...
- HealthandAge.com
Thrombolytics Before Angioplasty Associated with Higher Mortality ... Sep 7, 2005
The patients underwent angioplasty within one to three hours of symptoms. The surprising excess death rate in patients randomized ...
- Medscape (subscription)
Clot-Buster May Be Dangerous Before Angioplasty Sep 7, 2005
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Giving a heart attack patient a clot-busting drug within hours of a planned angioplasty could be dangerous. ...
- Boston Channel.com
Angioplasty study warns against anti-clot drugs Sep 7, 2005
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The common practice of giving heart attack patients a clot-busting drug within hours of planned angioplasty could be dangerous, an ...
- Buffalo News
Use of the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel before a coronary ... Sep 5, 2005
Use of the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel before a coronary angioplasty reduced the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke within 30 days ...
- News-Medical.net
Drug-eluting stent reduces complications after angioplasty Sep 15, 2005
Compared to bare stents, devices that release the drug paclitaxel reduce the risk of an artery re-narrowing after angioplasty. Although ...
- HealthandAge.com
Medication Reduces Risks with Angioplasty Sep 5, 2005
...(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Taking the antiplatelet drug, clopidogrel (Plavix), before coronary angioplasty reduces the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack ...
- Ivanhoe
Hybrid OR for open-heart surgery, angioplasty Sep 8, 2005
...needed to perform both open-heart surgeries like coronary bypass and percutaneous coronary interventions and procedures such as angioplasty and stenting. ...
- News 8 Austin
Pumping Hearts After Angioplasty Sep 13, 2005
...(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Stents are often used to help keep arteries open and functioning in heart patients. Stents releasing medications ...
- Ivanhoe
Thrombolysis Before Angioplasty Linked to Increased Mortality Sep 6, 2005
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 6—Giving TNKase (tenecteplase) hours before a scheduled coronary angioplasty can be a fatal mistake, researchers reported today. ...
- MedPage Today
Angioplasty while patient sits Sep 4, 2005
He was recommended an angiography, followed by an angioplasty (a minimally invasive procedure for treatment of clogged arteries). ...
- Calcutta Telegraph
ESC: Lovenox Reduces Bleeding in Elective Angioplasty Sep 7, 2005
...with Arixtra (fondaparinux), investigators reported that the drug significantly reduces the risk of major bleeding in patients undergoing elective angioplasty. ...
- MedPage Today
Angioscopic Observation During Carotid Angioplasty with Stent ... Sep 17, 2005
Summary: This clinical report is the first to describe angioscopy during carotid angioplasty with stent placement. The average observation ...
- Am J Neuroradiology (subscription)
Hospital to Start Heart Surgeries Oct 1, 2005
...overcome financial obstacles and opposition from Lakeland Regional Medical Center, which now has the county's only operating open-heart and angioplasty program ...
- The Ledger
New device combats peripheral arterial disease Oct 1, 2005
Other treatment techniques include balloon angioplasty and stenting, both of which compress obstructing plaque against the sidewalls of the blood vessel, and ...
- Contra Costa Times
Doctors want short 'door to balloon' times Sep 29, 2005
An in-depth medical study in New Haven, Conn., has determined what steps are necessary to provide rapid angioplasty treatment for heart attack patients. ...
- Webindia123
Health and Science News Roundup Sep 29, 2005
29 (UPI) -- An in-depth medical study in New Haven, Conn., has determined what steps are necessary to provide rapid angioplasty treatment for heart attack ...
- Monsters and Critics.com
Doctors want short `door to balloon` times Sep 29, 2005
CT, United States (UPI) -- An in-depth medical study in New Haven, Conn., has determined what steps are necessary to provide rapid angioplasty treatment for ...
- Monsters and Critics.com
Diseases of heart Sep 26, 2005
Angioplasty is a procedure to open a partially or totally blocked artery. ... This may be necessary during most angioplasty procedures. ...
- Kathmandu Post
Study: Angioplasty Protocol Questioned Sep 6, 2005
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- The common practice of giving heart attack patients a clot-busting drug within hours of planned angioplasty could be dangerous, an ...
- WJXX
Men and women fare equally well after angioplasty Sep 6, 2005
ET. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Gender does not affect outcome in patients who undergo angioplasty in a blocked artery in the leg. ...
- Leading The Charge
Medicine reduces angioplasty death risk:- Sep 7, 2005
Scientists say they've found use of the anti-platelet drug clopidogrel reduces heart attack and cardiovascular death risks before and after angioplasty. ...
- Webindia123
Coronary angioplasty, Plavix reduces risk of cardiovascular events ... Sep 4, 2005
Use of the antiplatelet drug Clopidogrel ( Plavix ) before a coronary angioplasty reduced the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke within 30 ...
- Xagena.it
'Secrets' of successful hospitals revealed Sep 28, 2005
MD) – An in-depth look at hospitals that reduced treatment delays highlights steps other hospitals could take to provide rapid angioplasty treatment to heart ...
- EurekAlert
Home is where the heart operation is Sep 26, 2005
Adena Regional Medical Center has two John Hopkins studies under way that will allow patients in need of an angioplasty to be treated at Adena instead of being ...
- Chillicothe Gazette
PACKERS: Age getting better of Ahman? Sep 30, 2005
...said the last time he experienced any pain was in the second half of the game, and the pain wasn't as sharp as it was before his emergency angioplasty last Oct ...
- Wisconsin State Journal
2 HMA hospitals here have high charges, report says Sep 29, 2005
...the 30-county region for six treatments, including abnormal heartbeat, respiratory failure with mechanical ventilation, heart attack with angioplasty or stents ...
- Lancaster Newspapers
HEALTH & FITNESS Sep 27, 2005
But, with the availability of drug eluting stents, the gap between surgery and angioplasty has decreased. This has caused more and ...
- The Tribune
Barkley spotlights health disparities Oct 1, 2005
...that of whites. Blacks are half as likely as whites to undergo angioplasty and coronary bypass surgery. Barkley's charitable foundation ...
- AL.com
Reimbursements may be liable to tax Oct 1, 2005
Surgical operation is defined to include treatment by modern methodology such as angioplasty, dialysis, lithotropsy, laser or cryo-surgery. ...
- Financial Express
Rethinking Biology Sep 29, 2005
...improve blood flow. Yun believes the angioplasty, while helping in the short term, reinitiates the trauma response. "It took ten ...
- Forbes
East Alton police chief has heart attack Sep 29, 2005
According to the American Heart Association, a stent is a wire mesh tube used to prop open an artery during angioplasty. Angioplasty ...
- Alton Telegraph
Medical Ventures' Metricath(TM) Demonstrates Substantial Clinical ... Sep 21, 2005
21 /CNW/ - MEDICAL VENTURES CORP. (TSXV: MEV) and its subsidiary, Angiometrx Inc., announce the results of the CAMUS (Coronary Angioplasty Metricath vs. ...
- Canada NewsWire (press release)
N&N board gives backing for heart ops Sep 22, 2005
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital board yesterday gave approval after hearing failure to offer angioplasty would be falling short of offering a 21st ...
- Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
N&N heart surgery bid Sep 20, 2005
A proposal to perform angioplasty procedures - to clear blocked arteries - is to be considered by the board of the hospital tomorrow. ...
- Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Hospital officials push to offer elective angioplasties ... Sep 23, 2005
Center, about 60 people told Office of Health Care Access Commissioner Cristine Vogel that the hospital should be allowed to offer elective angioplasty and open ...
- Stamford Advocate
Hospital mortality numbers improve Sep 28, 2005
Somerset Hospital’s high mortality rating for heart attack patients does not reflect on its innovative angioplasty treatment, because those patients are in a ...
- The Tribune-Democrat
El Camino Hospital Physician Available for Comment on Recently ... Sep 21, 2005
Cryoplasty, or 'Angioplasty on Ice,' Technique Demonstrates Favorable Safety and Efficacy Results in Study Published in the Journal of Vascular Interventional ...
- PR Newswire (press release)
Pre-op blood clot drug 'danger' Sep 7, 2005
The common practice of giving heart attack patients a clot-busting drug hours before planned angioplasty could be dangerous, an important new study suggests. ...
- Daily Mail - UK
Senate won’t free Gonzales Sep 26, 2005
...had narrowed. "We don’t recommend angioplasty because it is more risky. We prefer a two-vessel bypass but it’s elective. It’s ...
- Philippine Star
More heart victims die when clot-buster drug is used before ... Sep 7, 2005
Currently it is fairly common practice to give heart attack patients a clot-busting drug a few hours before planned angioplasty. ...
- News-Medical.net
Security adviser to undergo heart surgery Sep 25, 2005
...with Gonzales Saturday, said that although the security adviser is getting well, he needs to undergo more tests and possibly a "coronary angioplasty" Monday to ...
- Sun Star
Bypass for Gonzales Sep 26, 2005
...yet been set. Torres said they ruled out angioplasty after Gonzales’s heart failed to respond to the drug given him. “It did ...
- Manila Times
Najib to open Sabah Medical Centre Saturday Sep 29, 2005
...patients referred to the SMC by government hospitals such as the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, underwent cardiac procedures such as angiogram, angioplasty and open ...
- Daily Express
Indian River Memorial Hospital reserves right to borrow for heart ... Sep 29, 2005
Likewise, IRMH is interviewing three interventional cardiologists to pick a doctor who will oversee heart angioplasty and other nonsurgical cardiac procedures. ...
- Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription)
For Rabouin, a scary last few days Sep 29, 2005
It conjured memories of the near heart attack manager Butch Hobson suffered three years ago, leading to an angioplasty procedure. ...
- Nashua Telegraph
Life-Saving Technology for Heart Patients Too Sick for Surgery Sep 27, 2005
Some patients can be helped by angioplasty, which opens clogged arteries without surgery. But some patients can’t even tolerate that procedure. ...
- Newswise (press release)
The Medicines Company Appoints Melvin Spigelman, MD to Board of ... Sep 29, 2005
Angiomax(R) (bivalirudin), an anti-clotting therapy approved in the US and other countries for use in patients undergoing coronary angioplasty, a procedure to ...
- Business Wire (press release)
Icoria Receives Notice of Allowance on Tissue Analysis Patent Sep 29, 2005
...the application involved a cardiovascular device study in an animal model of the restenosis-like response of blood vessels injured by balloon angioplasty. ...
- PR Newswire (press release)
MU Researchers Identify Key Factor in Onset of Heart Disease Sep 30, 2005
...are injured or stressed, something that happens naturally, or in medical procedures used to clear clogged arteries such as balloon angioplasty, they trigger a ...
- Newswise (press release)
GRMC future taking shape Sep 30, 2005
...for the procedures it provides, the new cardiac care facility will enable Great River to immediately begin offering in–house angioplasty procedures once the ...
- Burlington Hawk Eye
Modern facilities to be made available at GB Pant Hospital Sep 30, 2005
Shastri said the hospital had historical importance as country's first open heart surgery was done here and today maximum cases of angioplasty were also ...
- Webindia123
Union Hospital opens new radiology suite Sep 29, 2005
...procedures. These include diagnostic angiography, angioplasty, and stent placement in blocked or narrowed arteries throughout the body. ...
- The Daily Item of Lynn
Reminder - OR-Live.com Presents: Hybrid OR Offers Sep 29, 2005
...to perform both open-heart surgeries like coronary bypass as well as percutaneous coronary interventions and procedures, including angioplasty and stenting. ...
- ArriveNet (press release)
What's the Best Heart Attack Treatment? Sep 7, 2005
7, 2005 -- Giving clot-bustersclot-busters to heart attack victims who are scheduled for balloon angioplastyballoon angioplasty could cost them their lives ...
- WebMD
Anti-clotting Drugs Present Big Risk Sep 10, 2005
Giving patients a clot-busting drug before planned angioplasty, a common practice nowadays, has been recently found to be dangerous. ...
- HeartZine
El Camino Hospital Physician Available for Comment on Recently ... Sep 21, 2005
...disease (PAD). Cryoplasty is a cutting-edge alternative to conventional balloon angioplasty for unclogging blocked arteries. Primary ...
- Yahoo! News (press release)
'Superaspirin' before heart surgery may save lives Sep 4, 2005
Plavix when they arrive at the emergency room almost halved the risk of a stroke, a repeated heart attack or death within the first month after an angioplasty. ...
- Houston Chronicle
COMUNICADO DE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL Sep 4, 2005
Clopidogrel Before Angioplasty Cuts in Half Risk of Death and Recurrent Heart Attack Clinical trial results emphasize that one in 23 people avoid major ...
- InfoBolsa
McDowell to offer heart program Sep 11, 2005
Editor's note: Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center will begin offering angioplasty services on Sept.19. Of 92 hospitals in ...
- Danville Advocate
A “superaspirin? maybe the answer for a weak-hearted on the ... Sep 5, 2005
...attack patients as they proceed for emergency procedures reduced by half the risks of a stroke or a repeat attack or even death within a month of angioplasty. ...
- Earthtimes.org
Gonzales to go under the knife Sep 24, 2005
..."If there is a block, this will be widened by a balloon catheter (in a surgical procedure called angioplasty) and a stent will be placed to prevent narrowing ...
- Philippine Star
Gonzales requires further medical tests Sep 24, 2005
Heart specialists issued a recommendation Friday that 2coronary and cerebral arteriography with possibility of coronary angioplasty and stenting? be ...
- Manila Times
LIFELONG HEALTH : Peripheral vascular disease risk factor for ... Sep 18, 2005
Treatment can include a variety of minimally invasive techniques such as balloon angioplasty, stenting, arterial lasers and atherectomy, or may require ...
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription)
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