Anti-Migraine Drugs Might Cause More Pain Than Relief For Those With Heart Disease
...hese vessels,called coronary arteries, are already narrowed by heart disease, the contractioneffects of the migraine drugs can tip the balance, resulting in chest pain andeven heart attacks. For individuals whose blood circulation is not slowed by heart disease, thescientists say that the migraine drug's cont...CT Scans Could Become Screening Tool For Heart Disease
...eart disease until they develop symptoms caused by narrowed arteries. "If doctors could pick up high-risk people early, before symptoms develop, they could head off a heart attack at the pass," says Carr. Another CT technology, the electron beam, has been available for more than 10 years to detect calciu...Balloon Procedure In The Brain? Longest Follow-Up To Date Shows Good Results
...However, bypass surgery is impracticalfor treating narrowed vessels that feed blood to the brain In angioplasty, a tiny balloon-tipped catheter is threaded through a bloodvessel. When the catheter reaches the area of blockage, the balloon isinflated, compressing atherosclerotic plaque, or fatty build-up, aga......l time bomb -- one that could suddenly transform a narrowed coronaryartery into a heart attack or death. In this study, the researchers measured participants' levels of troponin T. People with normal hearts have very low blood levels of troponin T. Troponin Tlevels increase substantially within several ho...'Super' aspirin and clot buster drug may help heart attack victims avoid surgery
...eflated balloon on its tip that is passed into the narrowed part of theartery. When the balloon is inflated, the blockages or blood clots are pushedaside, allowing blood to flow through. Bypass surgery is an operation that usesblood vessels "borrowed" from another part of the body to go around cloggedcorona...Risk factors for stroke after heart surgery identified
... enter the circulatory systemwhere it encounters a narrowed artery and obstructs blood flow. Interestingly,researchers say, atrial fibrillation alone was not a risk factor forpost-operative stroke, although it is a major risk factor for stroke in thegeneral population. "Atrial fibrillation has also b......ften an indication that fatty plaque deposits have narrowed the arteries that supply blood to the heart. Exercise causes the body to put more demands on the heart, increasing the possibility that chest pain will occur.Patients anxious that exertion might worsen their chest pain tend to limit their activities...Cigarette smoking among American teens
... level, notes Johnston. But those differences had narrowed considerably by 1990, according to the long-term data for high school seniors. Now those social class differences appear to be re-emerging. At 12th-grade there has been very little decline so far either among the college-bound or the non-college b...Growing blood vessels around clots in leg arteries may treat painful walking
...s" when too little blood flows through clogged and narrowed arteries. And like angina in a heart, this lack of oxygen-rich blood to muscles that need it produces pain. Leg by-pass surgery and angioplasty can help some patients, but most people with leg clots walk as little as possible to avoid the pain. ...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
... effect of some genes. "You could say we have it narrowed down to a line-up of good suspects, but we still can't finger the culprit until we get direct evidence," Pericak-Vance said. "In this case, that most likely will be more than one gene. It will probably include variations of many genes that in combina...Encouraging one year results in vessel growth factor trial
...ood flow to the heart in people whose arteries are narrowed by fatty deposits. Such deposits reduce the flow ...d undergone at least one angioplasty to open their narrowed arteries. Participants received a placebo, 17 nanograms of VEGF, or 50 nanograms of VEGF per kilogr...Diabetics at greatest risk of complications after re-opening arteries
... tipped with a deflated balloon is inserted into a narrowed artery and the balloon is inflated to push open the clogged area and dilate the blood vessel. Van Belle says his study indicates that diabetics should be treated differently from the general population and may lead to new therapies to target re-block...Study: Children with more hours of child care act more aggressively
...the children were in kindergarten, differences had narrowed to 17 percent vs. 9 percent." Higher quality care corresponded with fewer problem behaviors, the study showed. Center care during infancy was not linked to either positive or negative trends among participating children. Children who watched more tel...News tips from the care and outcomes meeting
...ored and less favored patients still exists it has narrowed during the past decade. This suggests that clinical factors rather than socioeconomic characteristics of patients were increasingly more important determinants of who undergoes revascularization. Jing Fang, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bron...Mayo Clinic researchers identify gene for inherited kidney and liver disease in young children
...more difficult to isolate. In 1994, a German group narrowed the area of the disease gene to a region on chromosome 6. Dr. Harris and colleagues at Mayo Clinic were able to identify the gene by first finding a gene that causes a similar disease in rats. Dr. Harris group analyzed a rat with a similar form of P...UCLA scientists identify genetic link to migraine
...monstrated such a strong linkage. Now that we have narrowed the hunting ground, these findings provide us with a focused direction for identification of the gene itself, Palotie said. They also pave the way for clinical trials of more effective prophylactic drugs. Migraines affect roughly 12 percent of the po...Calcification of breast blood vessels may predict stroke risk
...the brain. Clots are more likely to block vessels narrowed by atherosclerosis, the build up of fats, cellular debris and calcium. Although attention has tended to focus on the fatty buildup, recent studies have begun to explore a possible relationship between the amount of calcification and the risk of card...Repeat stenting not always durable
... either. Although inserting another stent into the narrowed artery will solve the problem in a short time, some of the vessels will again narrow, explains Yoshihiro Morino, M.D., a research fellow at Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, Calif. The question of whether to re-stent or not to re-stent is...Gene linked to testicular cancer
..., by working with fruit flies, we have effectively narrowed down the search for important stem cell genes to one-third of the human genome, yet it's the most important one-third of the genome," Lin said. In 1997, Lin and collaborators at Duke identified the first member of the family of genes called piwi, i......ths occur in individuals with two or more arteries narrowed by atherosclerosis. Yet, if identified early, atherosclerosis is reversible with medications and dietary and lifestyle changes. FDG is already a mainstay of nuclear medicine diagnosis because, when injected, it is "taken up" more rapidly by tissue wi...