Percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair shows favorable preliminary results
... are at the beginning of an exciting new avenue in interventional cardiology. I have no doubt that in five or ten years, interventional cardiologists will be routinely treating valvular heart disease in many patients without cardiac sur...MRI improves treatment of deforming birthmarks
...rinkage. "Marrying the unique advantages of interventional MR imaging to current minimally invasive therapy has tremendous potential advantages in a broad array of procedures," Dr. Lewin said. ...Call for national collaboration on medical education research
...ic methods to educational settings." Experimental interventional research designs such as the randomized clinical t...udy group versus another," adds Carney. While such interventional trials are difficult to do in medical school, other observational strategies used in patient researc...Minimally invasive treatment for varicose and spider veins
...hwestern Memorial, the departments of dermatology, interventional radiology and vascular surgery coalesce to form a Vein Program that offers a unique multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of superficial venous disease. These unsightly veins are actually caused by an incompetent saphenous vein. Valves in t...New asthma program in Detroit public schools may improve student grades and decrease absences
...nry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, introduced an interventional asthma program into 14 Detroit elementary schools with the intention of evaluating the program's effects on symptom management and school attendance and performance. Participating schools were randomly selected to either receive the program or serve...Mount Sinai is best major hospital in New York City for angioplasty
...r notation of excellence. Dr. Sharma, director of interventional cardiology at Mount Sinai's Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Jose and Henry R. Kravis Center For Cardiovascular Health, performed 3,100 angioplasty procedures during the three-year reporting period, more than any othe...Researchers say stenting the best treatment for blocked leg arteries
...kage with a healthy vein or artery. Increasingly, interventional radiologists are treating the condition with a less invasive stenting procedure, in which a catheter-or thin, flexible tube-is inserted through a small incision in the skin and threaded to the site of the blocked artery. The vessel is pumped open by ...Clip device accomplishes endovascular, non-surgical repair of faulty heart valve
..." Dr. Feldman says. "This new clip is one of the interventional cardiology devices in the pipeline that will change the face of cardiology in the coming years," says Dr. Feldman. "We are beginning to see an array of devices that are intended to repair or replace malfunctioning structures of the heart without sur...High blood pressure in the lungs a major risk for death in adults with sickle cell disease
...on could improve survival rates. "Several types of interventional therapies are now available but so far have been tried in only a few sickle cell patients," said Dr. Castro. He referenced inhalants such as oxygen and nitric oxide; blood exchanges through transfusions; and use of vaso-dilator drugs such as Viagra t...Unnecessary hospital stay after heart attack common in European countries
... UK, in terms of catheter laboratories and trained interventional staff, are insufficient to meet this standard of care, with the result that many high-risk patients stay in hospital even longer than those reported on by Kaul and colleagues, while they wait for catheter laboratory access. With adequate resources, h...Angioplasty clears clogged brain arteries
...ofessor of radiology and neurosurgery and chief of interventional neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif. Additionally, "Stent treatment may not be necessary." The study was not a head-to-head comparison of angioplasty and medical therapy. Researchers used data from other studie...Blood-diverting catheter holds promise for stroke treatment
...d author Morgan S. Campbell III, M.D., director of interventional neurology at the Alabama Neurological Institute, in Birmingham. "Ten of the 15 patients who were conscious when they arrived at the hospital improved during the procedure, which is very impressive." Campbell and his colleagues tested the safety and...For leg-bypass patients, drugs can save lives and limbs, but many patients go without them
... This is especially true as vascular surgeons and interventional cardiologists both increase their use of minimally invasive procedures for clogged vessels in the legs and other areas of the body. And, he notes, it's important for people to tell their regular doctors if they feel leg pain when they walk or whil...Drug-coated stents effective in 'real world' patients
...ents. "We have had basically two major steps in interventional cardiology," Serruys said. "The first was revascularization through percutaneous intervention with the angioplasty balloon in 1977 followed in 1986 by the introduction of the stent. The drug-eluting stent is the next major step." In an accompanyi...Stents combined with clot-busting drugs effective in limiting impact of deadly form of stroke
...igh, according to Kieran Murphy, M.D., director of interventional neuroradiology at Hopkins and principal investigator for the study. "Without treatment, as many as 90 percent of these patients will die," he added. The new study does not directly compare the drug-only conventional treatment with the combined approa...Bone marrow cells improve failing heart function
... Perin, who is also director of new cardiovascular interventional technology at the Texas Heart Institute. Treated patients had better blood flow and could walk longer on treadmill tests than controls. They also reported less chest pain and were able to breathe better. "To have the sustained ability to exerci...Automatic CPR device dramatically improves cardiac arrest survival in Stanford animal study
...artment of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of interventional preclinical research at Stanford. Results of the study are to be presented Nov. 10 at the American Heart Association's 76th annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando. Although the AutoPulse is already commercially available in the United States, research...Women & men differ in heart disease traits and treatment
...han those with more advanced disease to get either interventional or medical therapy. But when women and men with th...edical management, though it may affect the use of interventional procedures." Over all, Eagle emphasizes, the findings mean that physicians should be more aggressiv...Study of deadliest form of stroke demostrates much lower mortality rates at high caseload hospitals
...l imaging guidance. Innovations from the field of interventional neuroradiology include, among others, the endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms, carotid stents, intracranial stents, emergency stroke treatment, intracranial angioplasty, and vertebroplasty. More information about ASITN can be found on our W...Outpatient treatment shrinks liver tumors to acceptable size for laser procedure
...furt, Germany. Once the tumor is small enough, an interventional radiologist inserts laser fibers into the tumor and heats the tumor to 100 degrees in a procedure called laser-induced thermotherapy (LITT). "This was initiated because we could not perform the laser therapy on tumors that were too large," Dr. Vogl s...