Study shows digitalis safe in patients with common form of heart failure
...ailure," said Dalane Kitzman, M.D., a professor of cardiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and a co-author on the report, published on-line today in the journal Circulation. Kitzman said the study, which involved 988 patients, is significant because it is one of the first to evaluate a treatme...Aggressive heart pacing may work best in some spinal cord patients
...re not sufficient, says Dr. Andres F. Ruiz-Arango, cardiology fellow and corresponding author of the article in the July/August issue of Cardiology in Review. "There is a group of these patients who are not going to survive acute hospitalization but you don't want them to die just because they need a pacemake...A new guideline for screening apparently healthy individuals to prevent a heart attack
...HAPE guideline, we hope to build a new momentum in cardiology that inspires physicians to use modern technologies for the prevention of heart attack, rather than using expensive technologies only to treat heart attack, which is too late and results in too little benefit to the patient," said Dr. P.K. Shah, dire...Prion disease infectivity causes heart damage in mouse study
...p of Kirk Knowlton, M.D., chief of the division of cardiology at the University of California, San Diego, who investigated the effect of prion protein amyloid on mouse heart function, discovering that it decreased the heart's ability to pump blood. Unusually high levels of scrapie infectivity were also found...New study shows antibiotic may protect the heart
...t attack," said George W. Vetrovec, M.D., chair of cardiology at VCU's School of Medicine, and co-author of the study. For the last several years, Kukreja and his colleagues have studied a class of erectile dysfunction drug known as phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors as part of ongoing research into heart protect...ESC recommends interdisciplinary collaboration in non-invasive imaging
... way of working. Future diagnostic specialists in cardiology should be trained in several imaging modalities. Diagnostic tests should be evaluated by their impact on clinical outcomes, rather than their ability to provide better pictures or more diagnostic information. Different tests vary widely in their tec...New UF tool measures heart implant patients' anxiety
...he Charles Howard Candler professor of nursing and cardiology at Emory University and an international expert on quality of life after ICD, said that research has shown a wide variety of patient responses to living with an ICD. "The FSAS is a welcome tool for clinicians and researchers who are trying to dete...$20 million gift to Rush University Medical Center kicks-off campus redevelopment
...d equipment required for interventional radiology, cardiology and neurosurgery, fostering increased collaboration and a multidisciplinary approach for specialists who are doing similar procedures. The interventional platforms will locate key services close to one another on two easily accessible levels, minimiz...New ACC/AHA guidelines released for valvular heart disease
...M.D., lead author of the joint statement, chief of cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Goldberg...said Patrick T. O'Gara, M.D., director of clinical cardiology at Brigham & Women's Hospital and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Bost...Consumption of fish oil does not appear to protect against abnormal heart rhythms
... ventricular Arrhythmia (SOFA) was conducted at 26 cardiology clinics across Europe and included 546 patients with ICDs and prior documented ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) (both are types of serious cardiac arrhythmias). Patients were randomly assigned to receive 2 grams/day of fi...News briefs from Heart Rhythm 2006
...y issues were identified. Chu-Pak Lau, MD, head of cardiology at the University of Hong Kong, called the new technology "an important advancement because pacing leads are associated with a number of complications and limitations." Complications may include vein blockage, infection and lead failures caused by wi...Electronic medical record boosts quality, efficiency
...shift in clerical work to physicians. In addition, cardiology is a field that depends heavily on graphics, such as electrocardiograms, echocardiograms (ultrasound), and angiograms, but many EMR programs cannot yet import or even view graphics. Challenges remain in creating interfaces between existing hospital s...SCAI Founders' Lecture traces impressive progress in interventional cardiology
.... Stack will trace the evolution of interventional cardiology from inflation of the first angioplasty balloon to...d to honor the pioneers of invasive/interventional cardiology and founders of SCAI....Desensitization protocol overcomes allergy to clopidogrel
...the study's lead author, Nicholas E. Walker, MD, a cardiology fellow at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. "We showed we could successfully and safely desensitize patients who had just recently had a drug-eluting stent placed. That's a critical population to manage." Perhaps two out of every hundred patients tr...Quick trip to cath lab best for women with acute coronary syndromes
...k women," said Rachid Elkoustaf, MD, MPH, a senior cardiology fellow at the Henry Low Heart Center at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT. Acute coronary syndromes encompass both unstable angina, or more seriously, a type of heart attack known as nonST-segment-elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE ACS), a name ...Smokers seven times more likely to receive jolt from heart devices
...atients want to stop smoking," continues Snchez, a cardiology fellow in the cardiovascular division, "the evidence from our study should definitely add a strong argument to quit." Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are self-contained units that are placed within the chest to monitor heart rhythms an...Early myocardial enhancement defects on multidetector CT predicts future myocardial viability
...t attack, reported doctors from the departments of cardiology and radiology at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. Gated CT coronary angiography was performed on 34 consecutive patients that were admitted with a diagnosis of a heart attack. Each patient also underwent an initial and follow-up echocardiogra...Survey finds care for Europe's adults with congenital heart disease is inadequate
... should provide care in connection with paediatric cardiology and/or congenital cardiac surgery; They must treat sufficient numbers and perform sufficient procedures to be effective and maintain high performance levels; General adult cardiac facilities and non-specialist centres should have an established ref...Commonly used blood pressure medication prevents aortic aneurysm in mice with Marfan syndrome
...d author Jennifer Pardo Habashi, M.D., a pediatric cardiology fellow at Hopkins. Moreover, she says, the studies connected the dots in the disease from its genetic origins to its mechanistic or biological pathways and finally to its treatment. In the latest experiments, which took three years to complete, H...... to me as the culmination of this work, and to the cardiology community in general as a potential important technical advance in the treatment of atrial fibrillation," Dr. Faddis said. Dr. Faddis said this new system should be easier to master, as well as being more precise, than conventional catheter ablation...