Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
...dics, from new anti-inflammatory drugs to improved surgical procedures. Virginia Veterinary Medical Association practitioners make most of the donations to the fund, and they play a critical role in determining which clinical research proposals are funded. "The Veterinary Memorial Fund progr...Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
...other group, the control group, underwent the same surgical procedure minus the attack. Mice in the heart attack group spent about eight minutes in cardiac arrest enough time to stop the flow of oxygen to the brain. Prior to surgery, the animals navigated the Morris water maze a task that requires fin...Screen siblings, parents of infants with severe heart abnormalities
...sease later in life, and could require catheter or surgical procedures on the heart," Towbin said. The infants' severe heart defects included congenital aortic valve stenosis, coarctation of the aorta and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Congenital aortic valve stenosis involves a narrowing of t...Breakthrough in understanding of hereditary disease of lymphatic vessels
...s, may be inherited or may be a side-effect of the surgical removal of tumors. Lymphatic vessels normally remove fluid and proteins escaping from blood capillaries into surrounding tissues, and lymphedema is characterized by the disabling swelling of legs, and sometimes arms, that results when the lymphatic v...Penn scientists identify novel pathway in aneurysms
..., with the only option of "watchful waiting" until surgical repair is attempted, says Funk. Often, but not always, these types of aneurysms are associated with arteriosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease of the blood-vessel wall, consisting of fatty deposits that progress into major plaques that eventual...Activated signaling pathway may predict lung cancer patients' response to gefitinib
...f patients with NSCLC are cured despite aggressive surgical and chemotherapeutic intervention. Gefitinib, a cancer drug that interferes with the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway, is active in approximately 10% of NSCLC patients in whom standard therapy has failed. Although earlier studies have ...Genetic discovery could dramatically reduce need for liver transplants in children
...dren who undergo liver transplantation. Although a surgical procedure is successful in many infants, three of every four children who have biliary atresia need a liver transplant before the age of 20. The total annual cost, including transplant care, of treating all infants with biliary atresia is estimated t...New diagnostic technology helps justify earlier cataract surgery
...ide, and cataract surgery is among the most common surgical procedures in people over 65 years of age in the United States. Last year, 2,775,000 procedures were performed in the U.S. (one procedure = one eye). A cataract is the clouding of the normally clear, natural crystalline lens of the eye. As cataract...New pulmonary hypertension guideline challenges use of common medication
... early detection and diagnosis, medical therapies, surgical interventions, sleep-disordered breathing, and prognosis of PAH. Recommendations were graded in regard to the quality of evidence available or expert opinion and the benefit of the diagnostic or therapeutic procedure for the patient population. Asi...Endometriosis: Could angiostatic therapy be the new treatment of the future?
...f preventing the recurrence of endometriosis after surgical or hormonal therapy. Once endometriosis is diagnosed, a woman could have angiostatic therapy to prevent more lesions forming or the existing ones growing, and then after surgery, the therapy could be continued to prevent a recurrence." Dr Christian ...Research gives hope to preemies and Crohn's patients
...d removing necrotized intestine is the most common surgical emergency in preemies. "Surgery saves their lives, but with so much intestine removed, they're unable to digest or absorb nutrients. They can't eat by mouth like the rest of us do, and we have to use a process called total parenteral nutrition to fe...Nanoparticles illuminate brain tumors for days under MRI
...rain long enough for post-operative MR, even after surgical manipulation. The studies' findings have the poten...doctors to view the affected tissue throughout the surgical process by intraoperative MR. And exploration of the mechanism by which it's accumulated in cells ma...Tigecycline - Candidate antibiotic produces 74 percent cure rate in cSSSI patients
...or sometimes even the nation. Some have pioneered surgical procedures or innovations in patient care that are world firsts. OU Physicians serve as faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and train the region's future physicians....Embryonic stem cell - based tissue engineering may help repair damaged heart muscle
...nto the heart through an endoscope, with much less surgical trauma than if we had to open the chest to reach the heart. This liquid tissue solidifies at body temperature. "We let Nature integrate this tissue," said Dr. Kofidis. "We inject it as a liquid and let it consolidate within the affected heart where i...Fox Chase Cancer Center research shows kidney cancer can be diagnosed in urine
...rmation of radiographic results is primarily after surgical excision. There is no protein marker test for kidney cancer as there is for prostate cancer with the PSA test....Genetic signature may predict recurrence in colon cancer patients
...patients with Dukes' B, or Stage II, colon cancer surgical resection of the diseased tissue is considered highly effective, up to 20-30 percent of these patients can later develop recurrence and die from the disease. Patients classified as Dukes' B are thought to only have local disease, however, the incide...UCSD finds genetic time bomb in heart that leads to heart failure in some patients
...rove the immediate function of the heart. However, surgical correction of certain forms of congenital heart di...te stage arrhythmias in heart failure, in spite of surgical corrections. "We think we may have uncovered, conceptually, the mechanistic paradigm ...Brace therapy for osteoarthrisis, legal issues in TBI research, prosthetic fitting
...etermine how quickly the retina recovers following surgical implantation of a prosthesis and stimulation of th...ip between thumb and index finger) is a measure of surgical outcome for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Investigators recorded pinch force and the ab...BioTime awarded NIH grant to aid Hetacool development
...he "sludging" of blood at low temperatures. During surgical procedures for the treatment of certain cardiovasc...he resultant loss of oxygen. As a result, certain surgical procedures are performed at low temperatures because lower body temperature helps to minimize the ch...Rensselaer receives NIH grant to develop virtual surgery simulator
...id of a thin, rod-shaped probe, a small scope, and surgical instruments. Reduced trauma and shorter hospital s...mming. To program realism of touch feedback from a surgical probe navigating through soft tissue, De must develop efficient computer models that perform 30 time...