University of Pittsburgh receives NIH funding to develop heart assist device for infants
...icine. Working as subcontractors will be pediatric cardiologists from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, bioengineers from Carnegie Mellon University and research teams from MedQuest Products, Inc., of Salt Lake City, which hopes to manufacture and commercialize the device, and LaunchPoint Technologies of Goleta, ...Heart and lung transplantation clinical trial results to be announced at ISHLT meeting
...seases. Created in 1981 at a gathering of about 15 cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, the Society now includes more than 2,200 members from 45-plus countries, representing a variety of disciplines involved in the management and treatment of end-stage heart and lung disease. ISHLT members include anesthesiologists...Improved medical treatment of serious heart problems focus of UH-led group
...y, Feb. 16. The main goal of her work is to help cardiologists gain deeper insight into the behavior of vascular ...s. Zvonko Krajcer and Michael Grad, interventional cardiologists at the Texas Heart Institute; Dr. Doreen Rosenstrauch, cardiologist with expertise in genetic engine...NHLBI awards $68 million to fund clinical centers in pediatric heart disease
...ill enlist a cadre of experts, including pediatric cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons, immunologists, geneticists, and other pediatric clinicians, as well as molecular biologists, cell biologists, and biostatisticians, who will pool their talents to conduct state-of-the-art research addressing a central ped...Scientists find genetic link between blood flow patterns and cardiovascular disease
...try. The research team of biomedical engineers, cardiologists and surgeons included George P. Sorescu, Michelle Sykes, Daiana Weiss, Manu O. Platt, Aniket Saha, Jinah Hwang, Nolan Boyd, Yong C. Boo, J. David Vega and W. Robert Taylor. Bioengineers believe that areas of the vascular system with curves, forks, an...Time to go beyond cholesterol, MUHC cardiologists suggest
...measuring cholesterol, according to a new study by cardiologists from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). This study shows that measuring the amount of a protein called apoprotein B or apoB, is a more accurate and efficient test than measuring cholesterol. These findings will be p...First-ever cancer prevention research meeting
...ure we will be able to treat cancer similar to how cardiologists are treating heart disease. Through the use of preventive medications and life-style modifications, cardiology has moved beyond treating major cardiovascular disease events to identifying and treating the risk factors, such as elevated blood pressur...Mayo Clinic develops blood vessel cells from adult progenitor cells
...a way to create them". These new findings may help cardiologists address in a new way some of the key problems in interventional cardiology. "About 30 percent of patients with heart disease who have stents implanted during angioplasty have problems with renarrowing, or restenosis, within the stents," saysNoel Capl...Case Western Reserve University researchers developing new treatment for cardiovascular disease
...tack," Marchant said. "Secondarily, clinicians and cardiologists could use these liposomes with a built-in drug agent to treat patients after a stent placement."...Feeding fish use crossflow filtration
...son's team used fiber-optic endoscopes, like those cardiologists use to probe blocked blood vessels, to watch what actually happens when fish are feeding. They found that food particles were not hitting or sticking to the rakers at all. They were being carried straight past and collected at the roof or the back of...¡Ciao! down: Mediterranean diet after a heart attack adds years to life
...egan, and received routine examinations from their cardiologists for three and a half years. Their intake of certain foods was tracked with a questionnaire given just after their heart attack and again six, 12, 18 and 42 months later. Study participants were divided into five categories according to how much o...Scientists discover key ingredient in sexual reproduction
...r blood vessels open - a significant discovery for cardiologists as well as for the manufacturers of the impotence drug, Viagra. NO also functions as an important neurotransmitter in people and is used by white blood cells to kill tumors, bacteria and other invaders. Based on the latest findings in Nature, this...Zebrafish's powerful heart gene could lead to transplant therapy
...l heart defects and disease. Human geneticistsand cardiologists studying families with heart disease may discover, saidStainier, that a mutated form of the gata5 homologue occurs in some cases ofheart disease, in which case the mutated form of the gene could serve as amarker of predisposition to the disease. The ...Scientists suggest genetic shutdown links estrogen, heart disease
...3,000 women with existing coronary artery disease, cardiologists wereshocked to find replacement hormones apparently offered no protection againstheart attack. Because of the new study, Post says, her team will now look atincreased methylation in the genes of older women as a possible explanation. Earlie...New gene therapy found safe for treating coronary heart disease
...dition to bypass surgery," Crystal says. "Invasive cardiologists might use it with, or instead of,angioplasty. Finally, it could be used alone, as we did with six patients." Co-authors are Leonard Y. Lee, M.D.; Shailen R. Patel, M.D.; Timothy A.Sanborn, M.D.; Manish Parikh, M.D.; Geoffrey W. Bergman, M.B.......tential option,possibly far in the future. But for cardiologists who work with children,Bernstein said the promise of the science is exciting. "There are many causes ofmyocardial damage in children," he said. "Some of the most common are coronaryartery anomalies that deprive some of the heart muscles of adequate b......ns in the blood vessels, it will provide a way for cardiologists to diagnose people who are at high risk of having a heart attack or stroke and to initiate treatment to help stabilize the plaque obstructions or reduce the chances that a blood clot will form if a plaque ruptures. "This technology can change our ap...Researchers Link Gene Defects To The Course Of A Deadly Form Of Heart Disease
...ow totreat it. The results of this study show that cardiologists canuse genetic studies as a road map for treating Long QT patients,Moss says. "Our hope is that the vast wealth of geneticinformation being mined through the Human Genome Project can beused in a similar fashion."...New Hope On The Horizon For Patients With End-Stage Cardiovascular Disease
...ser Revascularization (PTMR). Using thisprocedure, cardiologists insert a laser catheter into the heart, creatingmultiple channels from the inside of the heart, out. These channels improveblood flow to heart muscles and stimulate growth of new blood vessels. To date,four patients have undergone PTMR at Cedars-Sina...Several weeks ago cardiologists representing 72 organizations from all over theworld announced that a new drug called tirofiban -- also known as aggrastat -- could reduce the risk of death in unstable anginapatients by 47%. The drug attaches to and blocks biochemical doorways onpla...