Knife-Less Brain 'Surgery' Offers New Treatment Options
... spots in blood vessels that could burst and cause bleeding in the brain. When aneurysms cannot be repaired surgically, micro-catheters can often be used to insert platinum coils or silicon balloons. Narrower than a human hair, the coils are placed one at a time until the aneurysm is filled, eliminating th...Less Bleeding On The Battlefield
...ontrollable blood loss. Previous efforts to reduce bleeding onthe battlefield have been unsuccessful, but a new product derived frommicroscopic plants that live in the ocean may provide the solution. With ONRsupport, Marine Polymer Technologies, a Danvers, Mass., company, has identifieda compound with the abi...Alga-Based Compound Promises Less Bleeding On The Battlefield
Previous efforts to reduce bleeding on the battlefield have been unsuccessful,but a ne..., is effective at stoppingblood loss from severely bleeding wounds even though it does not contain any ofthe proteins that are normally associated with clot for...Cholesterol Carriers Better Predictors Than Cholesterol For Second Heart Attack
...ondition characterized by a tendency for excessive bleeding because of afaulty clotting mechanism. In high-risk heart disease patients, an excessclotting tendency contributes to blockage of the blood vessel." In the study, researchers measured the three proteins and 11 other blood factorsin 1,045 people who ...Treating Depression Makes A Healthier Heart
...uries,platelets stick together and clot to stop us bleeding to death. Too muchclotting would cause heart problems. The researchers took blood samples from both depressed and healthypeople and examined their platelets for evidence of stickiness. They measuredcharacteristic chemical changes that occur o......cent of patients, and may be associated with major bleeding in the brain. Moreover, the blood vessel treated with a clot-buster often becomes blocked again. "Although the use of thrombolytic therapy has clearly benefited heart-attack patients, these drugs may have reached their limit of success," said lead s...NIH study to evaluate role of MRI in emergency diagnosis of heart attack & stroke
...ic (caused by ablockage) or hemorrhagic (caused by bleeding in the brain). If the stroke isischemic, the patient may be eligible for treatment, but if the stroke ishemorrhagic, delivery of t-PA is dangerous because it can cause more bleeding. NINDS scientists will compare the effectiveness of MRI with CT scan...Help for women's urinary tract infections
... to urinate frequently, burning sensations andeven bleeding during urination, and accompanying abdominal and back pain. Many women have also experienced inconsistent treatment of cystitis from doctorto doctor and region to region. Despite its wide prevalence and theavailability of inexpensive antibiotic trea...UNC-CH study shows compressed air sleeve prevents blood clots during hip replacement
...d. "They mean wedon't have to worry about patients bleeding too much because we don't have touse drugs to thin out their blood. Using the pneumatic compression duringsurgery makes total hip replacement safer not just for healthy people but foreverybody including the elderly." The study demonstrated th...Wake Forest researchers develop new technique to diagnose narrowed heart arteries
...s that enables X-ray equipment totrack blood flow, bleeding from the vessel where the catheter is inserted and,in rare cases, a heart attack. In a study of 30 patients who had both MRI scanning and cardiaccatheterization, the MRI was just as effective as cardiac catheterization at diagnosing significa...Robotic technology to help Ohio State University heart surgeons
...proachwhen the risk of bleeding was high," Goldschmidt said. This new system, however, combines the use of two new technologies -- computer-enhanced visualization and advanced articulated robotics ...New studies of a liquid of life -- Lung surfactant
...xia or oxygen starvation; and, lung edema -- bleeding in the lungs -- explained Zasadzinski. The alveoli, in which the oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged withthe blood, are very small, less than 1/10 of a millimeter in diameter, and arelined by a thin layer of liquid. When air and liquid ...Low doses of aspirin help prevent some strokes; high doses may increase risk for others
... risk ofdeveloping a hemorrhagic stroke, caused by bleeding in the brain. Ischemicstroke, the most common form of stroke, is caused by blood clots or otherblockages in the arteries, thus restricting blood flow to the brain. Hemorrhagic strokes occur when a blood vessel or vessels inside the brainruptures and...Study suggests some unruptured aneurysms do not need treatment
... depending on size. When they rupture, they cause bleeding in the brain. Thirty to 60 percent of patients die...e with aneurysms smaller than 10mm who had not had bleeding from a different aneurysm. The finding even accounted for the toll that anxiety might take on a pat......y Antidepressants and upper gastrointestinal bleeding People taking selective serotonin reuptake inhi...651 people who had suffered upper gastrointestinal bleeding (cases) and compared them to a control group of 10,000 who did not have upper gastrointestinal bleed......a single errant atom - that cause this devastating bleeding disorder, which affects about one in 10,000 American males. This discovery also provides a key to the development of new drugs - better clotting agents for hemophiliacs and improved anticoagulants for those at risk of stroke and heart attack. The di...Health risks from impaired drug metabolism
...--More than a million Americans may be at risk for bleeding problems due to a genetic characteristic that affe...e the dose of warfarin, otherwise complications of bleeding can occur," she explained. In people with slow metabolisms, the active components of drugs remain ac...University of Rochester awarded patent for class of drugs known as cox-2 inhibitors
...d side effects of gastro-intestinal irritation and bleeding were caused by the NSAIDs' effects on the original cox enzyme, which would later come to be known as cox-1. Further study of the cox-1 enzyme revealed that its role is not related to inflammation. Rather, it is believed to have many roles - amo...First large-scale clinical study establishes the efficacy of the new oral anticoagulant H 376/95
...f a slow onset of effect over several days. Also, bleeding complications and drug interactions are common. T...rgoing major surgery. In the METHRO II study total bleeding was not significantly different between the H 376/95 treatment groups or dalteparin.......this acid, prolonged use of the drug can result in bleeding and stomach ulcers. The structure of PolyAspirin™ allows it to dodge the stomach's acidic environment and break down into salicylic acid later - primarily when it hits the intestine's alkaline environment, where it is absorbed. As a result, the ...