Low-cost reminder helps prevent infections for heart patients
...ess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. An ultrasound of the heart, called an echocardiogram, shows the heart chambers and how they function. It can rapidly reveal heart valve abnormalities. The American Heart Association recommends that people with valvular abnormalities take preventive antibiotics d...UCLA surgeons complete skin expansion procedure on conjoined twins
...ter shaving the infants' hair, the doctors used an ultrasound wand on the girls' heads to detect major blood vessels. These were inked in red on their scalp so surgeons would know where to avoid performing the incision. "Overall, everything went exactly as it should have," said Dr. Barbara Van De Wiele, chief a...University of Pittsburgh research shows combined PET/CT finds cancerous lesions standard CT misses
...ons or to identify their precise locations. CT and ultrasound are the most frequently used imaging methods for t...ause they show the current standard of using CT or ultrasound as the primary method for finding lesions may not be the best, said Dr. Townsend. The tools most doc...Women with ovary disease may also have high risk for heart disease
.... Hardiman and his colleagues used a sophisticated ultrasound system to examine two arteries in the neck, the common carotid artery and the internal carotid artery, which supply blood to the head. They measured arterial stiffness and compliance (the arteries' ability to dilate when the heart needs to pump more...Doppler test detects those with gene for early heart enlargement risk
...ue imaging (DTI), which is a real-time noninvasive ultrasound procedure that shows how fast the heart muscle moves during contraction and relaxation. Researchers found that individuals who had HCM tended to have lower velocities during the relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle. Three groups of individuals were ...Columbia study finds differences in PSA, PSA density test measurements for Caucasian, Hispanic men
... PSA or abnormal rectal exam underwent transrectal ultrasound and biopsies between 1996 and 2001 at the Hospital. (Men were classified as Hispanic if they identified themselves that way, or by their surname.) Prior to biopsy, all patients underwent volume measurements of the entire prostate. Of these patients, ...Preliminary US study findings support excellent results with CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Stent
...nter, Palo Alto, CA, presented 8-month intravenous ultrasound (IVUS) data on 96 patients. The SIRIUS preliminary data are the most recent in a series of study findings evaluating the efficacy and safety of the CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Stent in reducing reblockage of de novo coronary artery lesions. "We are e...Repeat stenting not always durable
...easure the interior dimensions of the artery. The ultrasound examinations were done at the time patients where treated for in-stent restenosis and again six months later. The measurement is called lumen volume index (LVI). Higher LVI means blood flows more easily through the vessel. In patients treated with...Women at highest risk for ovarian cancer are less likely to be screened than those at lower risk
...ignal the presence of ovarian cancer. Transvaginal ultrasound is a radiologic imaging procedure that can detect small tumors as well as benign structural irregularities in the ovaries often associated with menstruation. Typically the blood test is used in conjunction with ultrasound. A 1994 National Institutes ...Stanford researcher dusts off old drug; uncovers new anti-rejection properties
...internal diameter of the transplanted vessels with ultrasound for 105 days. The animals that received sirolimus had arteries that were nearly normal compared to the significantly clogged arteries in animals that had received the placebo. Morris said early results from this work led to the use of sirolim...University of Pittsburgh transplant researchers present findings at international meeting
...plant patients with a history of smoking. Special ultrasound technology that quantifies the strength of the hea...detection echocardiography, which employs standard ultrasound imaging along with state-of-the-art quantitative information about the size of the left ventricle --...Jefferson trial looks to improve diagnosis of prostate cancer
... trial in the nation to find out whether a form of ultrasound that uses a contrast agent can improve detection a... Diagnostic Center, says that conventional Doppler ultrasound may not be good enough to find those tumors that contain more blood vessels than usual. In addition,...Tiny device blocks 'useless' part of heart, prevents blood clots
...articipants ranged in age from 59 to 78. Using an ultrasound technique called transesophageal echocardiography to guide them, the researchers threaded a catheter containing the PLAATO device to the entrance of the atrial appendage. If the initial placement was not adequate, the researchers collapsed the device...Ultrasound senses 'feel' of breast lesions
DURHAM, N.C. New and promising ultrasound techniques devised at Duke University's Pratt Scho... The technology, Nightingale said, uses a single ultrasound send-and-receive "transducer" both to emit two different kinds of high frequency sound pulses and to...Chip design has potential as artificial retina
...clude real-time diagnosis for heart monitoring and ultrasound imaging of the heart for real-time 3-D heart images. A clinic in Bonn, Germany is already trying out the CNN chip to analyze electroencephalogram (EEG) data, allowing researchers to predict the occurrence of epileptic seizures and, perhaps, even prev...Arsenic in well water related to atherosclerosis
... each subjects carotid arteries with a noninvasive ultrasound system. These arteries, located in the neck, carry blood to the brain. Three indices of long-term exposure to arsenic how long someone consumed artesian well water, the average arsenic concentration in that water, and the cumulative arsenic exposur...Intensity modulated radiation therapy at Fox Chase Cancer Center
...T and MRI, physicians at Fox Chase use an advanced ultrasound system called the BAT manufactured by Novus Corp, in Pittsburgh. The ultrasound system is similar to what is used to monitor a fetus during pregnancy and is used every day during t...3D ultrasound telehealth system first commercial test at Indian reservations
...d Communications). This state-of-the-art portable ultrasound system was developed at the Department of Energys Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls, SD, received a grant from the Department of Agriculture Rural Utility Service to determine if...Air pollution causes healthy blood vessels to constrict
... one, he says. In this study, the researchers used ultrasound to measure the diameter of the volunteers brachial artery which runs from the shoulder to the elbow before and after two hours of exposure to a concentrated mixture of ozone and fine particles. The level of concentration (150 micrograms per cubic ......hout surgery as we know it. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) devices target ultrasound in precise locations for non-invasive surgical treatments. Using diagnostic ultrasound to image a p...