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UF scientists test improved gene therapy method for hereditary heart conditions

... muscle and it was inefficient," said UF pediatric cardiologist Barry J. Byrne, M.D., Ph.D., the paper's senior author and director of the Powell Gene Therapy Center. "The difference here is that we can deliver a much lower dose of the vector into a vein like any other drug, and the corrective gene collects in th...

Researchers show that veins stiffen as we age

...gy at the University of Missouri. Stillabower is a cardiologist and director of cardiovascular research at Christiana Care Health System, as well as a clinical associate professor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. DiSabatino is the nurse manager at Christiana Care's cardiovascular research...

New test may identify cardiovascular disease earlier

...e susceptibility to coronary artery disease," said cardiologist and study team leader Svati Shah, M.D., who reported the findings on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association, in Chicago. "The data from our study suggest that there is a strong genetic component to an ...

Single genetic defect causes early heart disease

..., 2007, issue of the journal Science. Arya Mani, a cardiologist and member of Liftons laboratory at Yale, was first author of the article. The Yale group collaborated on the studies with researchers at Amir Kabir University of Technology, Azad University and The Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences Universi...

Stem cell therapy shows promise in regenerating damaged muscle in heart attack patients

...ho received placebo. Rush principal investigator cardiologist Dr. Gary Schaer, head of the Rush Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, says one reason the study results are so promising is that these stem cells can be used without tissue typing and do not trigger an immune response, and are available for every pat...

Heart intervention doesn't outweigh medicine in study

...K HealthCare's Linda and Jack Gill Heart Institute cardiologist Dr. David Booth, results of a five-year study released today showed that stable heart patients received no significant benefit in undergoing angioplasty when compared to patients treated with medication alone. The study, Clinical Outcomes Utilizing R...

Gene test shown to measure heart function after transplant

...University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. The presentation is based on preliminary data on 80 patients who received the GEP test. Physicians hope to confirm these results in future studies. "Understanding how the GEP scor...

Common genetic variation is linked to substantial risk for heart attack

... substantially increases the risk," explains Emory cardiologist Arshed A. Quyyumi, MD, one of the study authors. "Discoveries like this one greatly heighten our understanding of the role genetics plays in heart disease."...

Combining molecular imaging technologies to stop/prevent heart attacks

...and a novel contrast agent," said James H. Rudd, a cardiologist and scientist with the Imaging Sciences Laboratory at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Additionally, researchers combined CT imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, "providing a new way to determine the amount of infl...

Link between obesity and enlarged heart discovered by University of Arizona researchers

...eart disease. In the largest study of its kind, cardiologist M. Reza Movahed, MD, PhD, and research specialist Adolfo A. Martinez, MD, discovered that excessive body weight is associated with a thickening of the heart muscle in the left ventricle, the hearts pumping chamber. Known to physicians as left ventric...

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