Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...r the patient, they look at the heart as it starts beating and see if all of the grafts look fine," explained Fitzgerald. "But this is without any objective criteria." Around 5 to 8 percent of the time, he said, a graft that initially looked fine doesn't work well. This can lead to unsatisfactory resul...MRI cardiac catheterization poised for success in children with congenital heart disease
...rt in great detail but to do so while the heart is beating and display those images in real time. This enables the interventional cardiologist to track a special MRI-compatible catheter as it wends it way through the heart and to make fine adjustments when implanting therapeutic devices, such as stents. Muc...New insights into cost-effectiveness of implanted heart device
...se of implanted defibrillators that keep the heart beating in proper electrical rhythm to prevent cardiac arrest appears to be cost-effective for those patients who receive a significant mortality reduction, according to researchers from Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), Stanford University and the VA...EBCT scans trump angiography at detecting killer heart defect
...actically blur-free" cross-sectional images of the beating heart, says Memisoglu. Because of its speed in capturing images the study is completed in fewer than 30 seconds patients don't need medication to slow their heart rate. EBCT, along with multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) which features a movi...Wide racial disparities found in heart device implantation
...defibrillators into the chest to keep their hearts beating regularly, according to a new analysis by cardiolo.... Whenever the ICD senses that the heart is either beating too fast or too slow, it delivers an appropriate electric impulse to bring the heart back into prope...IOF agencies receive global recognition of osteoporosis campaigns
...lop a nation-wide osteoporosis education campaign, beating six other agencies. Their year-long campaign, "Strong Bones for a Strong Future", targets young adults (15-30 years) and parents (with children aged 4-16) with the key message that achieving high peak bone mass is important in preventing osteoporosis...Iron particles and MRI could replace biopsies to track stem cell therapy and deploy stents
...other and also track the labeled stem cells in the beating heart and limb. To test other applications of MRI using IRON, the Hopkins team tracked delivery of an implantable cardiac device, a stent, in a dog. The researchers successfully deployed a conventional, stainless-steel stent, with a catheter, to o...UNICEF report shows disabled children at serious risk
...mmon was physical violence, including bullying and beating of disabled children in the home, school, workplace and institutions. Homicide, in the form of "infanticide" and "mercy killings" was found to be the most extreme act of violence, and the most underreported was sexual abuse. While children with all t...Role of nervous system in fatal heart rhythm under study
...llation electrically shocking the heart back into beating normally works to correct it," says Dr. Autumn Schumacher, a new faculty member in the MCG School of Nursing who recently won the American Heart Association's Martha N. Hill New Investigator Award for her research. "We do, however, need a better und...Virtual reality could help diagnose heart conditions
...nal (3D) hologramsallow doctors to 'dive' into the beating heart and see interior parts of theorgan. Annemien van den Bosch and colleagues, from Erasmus MC University MedicalCenter Rotterdam in The Netherlands, projected ultrasound-generated 3D imagesof hearts (echocardiograms) in a specially designed four-w...Cancer patients put at risk by shortage of radiotherapy staff
...countries. For patients with a realistic chance of beating cancer, studies show that delaying treatment hampers doctors' ability to tackle the disease, report the authors. With cervical cancer, for instance, a longer waiting time for radiotherapy reduces the chance of the patient's survival. And for head and...Researchers take aim at the causes of heart valve disease
...ved from the rough-and-tumble environment inside a beating heart. Once tested -- a process that could take up to year -- Grande-Allen's bioreactors will be used to simulate conditions that have been linked with valve disease like the progressive buildup of neurohormones in the blood of patients with chronic...Livers from non-heart beating donors would boost organ supply
Liver transplants from non-heart beating donors have the potential to increase the supply o...nother potential source of organs is the non-heart beating donor, where organs are retrieved after a "stand off" period of five minutes during which death is c...Case School of Engineering professor applies virtual reality to train brain and heart surgeons
...ients." Another undertaking Cavusoglu's "robotic beating heart surgery" project is also advancing surgical...ow surgeons to routinely perform open surgery on a beating rather than a stopped heart, minimizing risk to the patient. Designed to stabilize and track the hea...For one Stanford doctor, the beat goes on during open-heart surgery
...eon Kai Ihnken demonstrated how he repositions the beating heart while it's still inside the chest of a 78-ye...ry. The surgeon reached into the chest, lifted the beating heart out, then craned his neck to the side, just so, searching for the right spot on the back of th...Perfect timing: Cardiologists meet in Chicago during May's National Stroke Awareness Month
...use the upper chambers of the heart quiver, rather beating with regular, forceful contractions. This allows blood to collect in a little pouch off the left-sided upper chamber of the heart, called the left atrial appendage, or LAA. The stagnant blood forms blood clots, which can travel to the brain. Today, ...Combination of three new, high-powered MRI systems at PENN is a first in the US
...rdware and software to be able to capture a faster beating heart. This MRI receives 32 signals at once versus...n image. So, instead of just seeing one slice of a beating heart in a breath-hold signal, we'll be able to see the entire beating heart. This is especially goo...Clot-busting drug helps revive cardiac arrest patients
...lot in the lungs, or other causes. The heart stops beating and the brain starts to suffer permanent damage within four to six minutes. Death quickly follows. The standard treatment for cardiac arrest is Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) measures, which include cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), drugs s...Aggressive heart pacing may work best in some spinal cord patients
...luence on the heart. One patient's heart stopped beating and he had a seizure when blood was drawn, Dr. Robinson noted. "We put a pacemaker in and he has been fine ever since," he says. "These patients have lost their sympathetic response so the vagal tone is always predominating. In patients showing ongoi......s two upper chambers (the atria) quiver instead of beating effectively. Blood isn't pumped completely out of them, so it may pool and clot. If a piece of a blood clot in the atria leaves the heart and lodges in an artery in the brain, a stroke results. Moreover, when the very rapid electrical signals from...