ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...for a larger group of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) than before. Recent technical and pharmacological improvements have developed PCI into a procedure that can be safely and effectively applied to patients with various types of coronary lesions and patients with and without myocardial infarctio...Yale authors raise concerns regarding regionalized heart attack care
...). Calls for the regionalization of acute coronary syndromes (heart attacks as they are more commonly called) a...d can recognize trauma. Recognizing acute coronary syndromes care is much more complicated. There's an impression that real-life heart attacks are like those por...Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
...n to the heart. "Non-ST-elevation" acute coronary syndromes occur when there are no classic electrocardiogram changes present yet the heart is still not receiving enough oxygen. American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology joint guidelines recommend that patients with this syndrome undergo e...Non-invasive and invasive breast cancers share the same genetic mutations
...ial members of the inherited breast/ovarian cancer syndromes defined by BRCA1 and BRCA2," said Claus. "As such, this subset of DCIS patients should be screened and followed according to highrisk protocols as are similar women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer."...New evidence of retroviral involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
...s to be implicated in the pathogenesis of ALS-like syndromes in certain strains of mice and in rare cases of individuals with HIV infection. Drs. Garson and Al-Chalabi have demonstrated that the previously described human retroviruses HIV and HTLV are not involved in typical ALS cases. Future work will deter...Reviparin effective in reducing risk of death after heart attack
...s become a mainstay of treatment of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), but the accrual of definitive evidence has been hampered by the fact that unfractionated heparin (UFH) became standard before the era of definitive clinical outcome trials," Dr. Califf writes. "CREATE advances the field by demonstrating that t...Significant pain relief following gastric bypass surgery
... be due to a decrease in the above stated comorbid syndromes and an increase in physical activity. As weight loss continues, these benefits may improve further. "The study clearly showed the benefit of weight loss in terms of pain, function and quality of life. We are now trying to understand why certain co...Study supports aggressive treatment of heart patients with cholesterol-lowering medication
...patients who have recently suffered acute coronary syndromes with higher doses of the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins soon after they experience heart-attack symptoms. Dr. James de Lemos, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern, is lead author of the second of a two-part, collabor...Update on cholesterol guidelines: more-intensive treatment options for higher risk patients
...ow HDL). Patients hospitalized for acute coronary syndromes such as heart attack are also at very high risk. *Moderately High-Risk: For moderately high-risk patients, the goal remains an LDL under 130 mg/dL, but the update provides a therapeutic option to set a lower LDL goal of under 100 mg/dL a...Read my lips: UCL launches centre for human communication
...ers, ranging from stuttering and loss of speech to syndromes such as savant, Down's and William's syndrome. Professor Moira Yip, co-director of the Centre for Human Communication, says: "The whole field of speech, language and communication is exploding, fuelled partly by advances in brain imaging and genetics...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, June 1, 2004
...hough surveillance systems to detect illnesses and syndromes related to bioterrorism have proliferated, researchers found little information about how good they would be at detecting bioterrorism and emerging infections (Review, p. 910). Researchers identified 115 systems that collect various surveillance repo...Deaf-blind woman deafer than deaf-blind man
...enetic characteristics for two different inherited syndromes that cause deaf-blindness. One of the two syndromes appears to cause more hearing impairment in women than in men. Pennings investigated Wolfram syndro...American genetic abnormality also discovered in the Netherlands
...nformation about the clinical pictures of the four syndromes can help physicians to better inform patients about the progression of the disease. They can also use it to recognise the clinical picture in new patients at an earlier stage....PET scanning promising in diagnosing cancer-related neurological disorders
...to aid in the diagnosis of particular neurological syndromes associated with cancer. Study details and results will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 56th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., April 24 May 1, 2004. Before their cancer is even diagnosed, patients can develop problems with th...Study finds nerve damage can affect opposite side of body
...ls in scientific experiments. "Patients with pain syndromes related to nerve damage sometimes report symptoms on the side opposite their injury as well, but those reports are usually discounted because there has been no biological framework for the phenomenon," says Anne Louise Oaklander, MD, PhD, director of...Implanted defibrillators not covered for half of patients who could benefit, study finds
...t's 10 percent of all patients with acute coronary syndromes (heart attack or unstable angina) treated at U-M in the three-year period. But had those patients all tried to get coverage for an ICD under Medicare, 80 of them would have been denied under Medicare's current criteria, because their QRS score was to...Why don't heart patients take their medicine? Study finds forgetfulness at the top of the list
...olved 154 patients who had suffered acute coronary syndromes (heart attack or unstable angina episode) and were hospitalized at the U-M Health System. The vast majority of them were taking some or all of the "Fab Four" classes of drugs for heart patients: anti-platelet medications such as aspirin, ACE inhibito...Promising new treatment options for people with co-existing alcohol-use and psychiatric disorders
...also be effective for a broad range of psychiatric syndromes beyond the primary indication of schizophrenia, such as mania, depression, anxiety, hostility and aggression. In addition, clinicians are increasingly using these medicines for conditions such as dementia, autism, developmental delay/mental retardat...Unnecessary hospital stay after heart attack common in European countries
...myocardial infarction and other high-risk coronary syndromes is moving increasingly towards percutaneous intervention at admission or in the first 24 h. At present, resources in the UK, in terms of catheter laboratories and trained interventional staff, are insufficient to meet this standard of care, with the ...Predicting risk of poor outcomes in patients with heart disease using certain biomarker
...edicting biomarker in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Christopher Heeschen, M.D., of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether blood levels of PlGF predict risk for death or nonfatal heart attack in patients with acute chest pain. ...