UCSF vascular surgeons develop new technique to repair aortic arch aneurysm
...egrated fellowship program in vascular surgery and interventional radiology being pioneered at UCSF Medical Center. ...owship offers a year-long accredited fellowship in interventional radiology. This is followed by an additional year-long fellowship in vascular surgery. "As more and ...Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Alveolus, Inc., announce agreement
...e research and physician education in the field of interventional pulmonology. Based at BIDMC, the program will be h...lso calls for the creation of a course to instruct interventional pulmonologists in the use of stents for the treatment of central airway obstruction, a narrowing or ...Munchausen syndrome by proxy should be considered for unexplainable medical conditions
...sary medical examinations and treatments. In this interventional case report, an infant was brought to an emergency center at a large hospital several times, and eventually hospitalized for the treatment of various medical problems, including recurrent ocular symptoms. However, when the causes and recurrence of th...UC Davis physicians use high-tech virtual system
...eams of physicians and nurses to practice advanced interventional procedures, such as the treatment of acute heart a...r surgery, and Daniel Link, professor and chief of interventional radiology, also believe simulators have a role in medical education. "Simulation systems enable phys...Endografts help prevent deaths from abdominal aortic aneurysms
...of radiology and division director of vascular and interventional radiology at the University of Michigan. "Studies have shown that, in select patients, the endovascular procedure results in less morbidity and mortality than conventional surgery." The abdominal area is the most common location for an aneurysm, a w...Rush begins use of magnetic guided navigation system
...2 million in facilities and to acquire the Telstar interventional workstation manufactured by Stereotaxis, Inc., of St. Louis. The technology combines computer-controlled magnets, a flexible catheterization system and an X-ray fluoroscope that permits surgeons to view organs and medical devices in the body. The F...Angioplasty safer, need for emergency surgery afterward plunges
... says study author Patrick L. Whitlow, director of interventional cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland. Whitlow and his colleagues studied the medical records of 18,593 Cleveland Clinic patients who had angioplasty procedures to open narrowed heart arteries from 1992 2000. "We found a sig...Early intervention could halve angina rate for people at moderate risk of heart attack
...E LANCET suggest that angina could be halved if an interventional approach (such as balloon angioplasty or coronary ...k of death from coronary-artery disease, either an interventional strategy (angiography followed by revascularisation [restoration of coronary artery bloodflow by ang...Energy blocker may be potential liver cancer treatment
..., associate professor of radiology and director of interventional radiology. "The difference was quite dramatic." Pedersen cautions that before 3-bromopyruvate could be tested in humans, scientists would need to learn how normal cells protect themselves, whether the compound causes long-term damage to normal tissu...NYU Medical Center selects Siemens as strategic partner
...or its rapidly expanding program in diagnostic and interventional radiology. The agreement covers approximately 100 advanced clinical imaging machines and provides some of the most powerful magnetic resonance (MR) systems available for research, including a high-resolution research 7 Tesla magnet*, which can scan ...Preliminary US study findings support excellent results with CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Stent
...diologists have to gauge the long-term efficacy of interventional therapy." "The angiographic findings are confirmed...ho represent some of the more challenging cases an interventional cardiologist is likely to encounter in everyday practice, and we are seeing excellent results. Obta...Radiation rids arteries of re-narrowing for up to five years
...iation therapy, says Teirstein, who is director of interventional cardiology at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, Calif. The study involved 55 patients, 26 of whom received radiation and 29 who took a placebo treatment. Five years later, the researchers found a significant difference between the two groups when they ...UCSF, UC Davis establish joint pediatric heart center
...sed techniques rather than surgery. With pediatric interventional cardiac catheterization, cardiologists use catheters to repair or open holes in the heart or blood vessels. With pediatric electrophysiology, they abolish rhythm disorders using radiofrequency ablation catheters. This partnership holds great promise...Miniature filtering device to make angioplasty safer being tested
...leg) vein is more than 50 percent blocked. "Most interventional cardiologists have had patients who have experienced a cardiac event while undergoing angioplasty. This device offers an approach that can prevent those events from happening," Snell said. Just as angioplasty is safer than open-heart surgery in app...Gene therapy to treat angina appears safe
...f the cardiac catheterization laboratories and the interventional cardiology training program at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. We think the growth factor gene used here restarts this natural response. This is a completely new and different approach. Angina is a major cause of disability worldwide ...Stanford researchers warm to cooling heart attack patients
...eat heart attacks," said David Lee, MD, a Stanford interventional cardiologist. "I have great hope that therapeutic cooling can preserve heart muscle and significantly improve a patient's long-term prospects." Stanford is one of the only medical centers in California participating in a randomized, multi-site...Georgetown researchers to present evidence of biological cause of dyslexia
...group then participated in an intensive eight-week interventional program designed to improve reading skills, while the other group received no intervention at all. At the end of the eight-week period, brain scans showed that the group that had taken part in the reading program showed measurable improvements in re...Free radicals mediate arsenic's harmful effects
...eate mutations. "As such, antioxidants could be an interventional approach in patients who have been subjected to chronic arsenic exposure," says Dr. Hei. He plans to extend the study to determine the source of these radical species, in particular the role of mitochondria in mediating the genotoxic effects of arsen...Encouraging one year results in vessel growth factor trial
...ys lead author Timothy D. Henry, M.D., director of interventional cardiology at Hennepin County Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. There was no increase in adverse events, which some scientists have suggested might occur. If anything, it looks as if t...... Elvira Lang, M.D., director of cardiovascular and interventional radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess.The large rando...d clinical trial included 241 people who underwent interventional radiology procedures to open clogged arteries and veins, relieve blockages in the kidney drainage sy...