Fluctuating eye pressure associated with visual field deterioration in glaucoma patients
...treat glaucoma: phacoemulsification, that involves dissolving and removing the lens; posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation; and trabeculectomy, also known as filtration surgery. All patients had a low IOP after surgery (below 18 milligrams of mercury). Measurements of IOP and visual field were taken f...Lowering body temperature could aid standard stroke treatment
... proteolytic enzyme that actually does the work of dissolving the clots. "Without sufficient plasminogen," Shaw says, "more tPA won't help, so I suspect if one wants to use hypothermia and tPA at the same time, something else might be needed to help the tPA work better." Shaw says the model of the tPA-hypot...Students devise oral quick-dissolve strips for rotavirus vaccine
.... "The idea is that you would place one of these dissolving strips on the infants tongue," said Hai-Quan Mao, the teams Johns Hopkins faculty advisor. "Because the strips are in a solid form, they would cost much less to store and transport than the liquid vaccine. We wanted this to be as simple and as inexpe...CankerMelts patches reduce pain and speed resolution of canker sores
... Orleans will report on a study of a new, patented dissolving oral patch with this traditional herbal medicine. In randomized, controlled trials conducted by researchers at the University of Washington and Orahealth Corporation, 8 out of 10 people using an oral GX patch (CankerMelts) had no more base pain afte...Snake-like robot and steady-hand system could assist surgeons
...o inject drugs into tiny blood vessels in the eye, dissolving clots that can damage vision. These and other projects are being built by teams in the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, based at Johns Hopkins. Launched in 1998 with fun...Melts in your body, not in your hand
...uticals are hindered by being too crystalline--not dissolving quickly enough, or at all, in the body--or too glassy, breaking down too quickly or in uncontrollable ways. A detailed University of Wisconsin press release is available at: http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/13279.html...Penn researchers use the abdomen to deliver oxygen to assist ailing lungs
...ea, it was clear that a nontoxic liquid capable of dissolving large volumes of gas would be needed. Friedberg felt perfluorocarbons were well suited for this purpose. "These were short-term proof of principle experiments performed on otherwise healthy pigs. What we found, however, was that the circuit was abl...Plant sterol pills significantly lower LDL cholesterol
...e not water-soluble, past strategies have involved dissolving them in fat. Most sterol-containing foods studied so far have been brands of margarine. Studies have found that a daily intake of one or two tablespoons of sterol-containing margarine could significantly lower LDL cholesterol. Some juices and pudding...Lower doses of clot-busting drug safer for stroke patients
...h both lower-dose levels were equally effective at dissolving clots and reducing mortality rates, a sampling of the cerebral spinal fluid revealed that the 1 milligram dose stayed at therapeutic levels for longer periods of time than the 0.3 milligram dose. They also found that because the 1 milligram dose appe...Arteries bio-engineered from elderly cells
... proliferated and filled all the spaces within the dissolving polymer scaffolding, the researchers added endothelial cells, which line the interior of blood vessels, to complete the artery. Vessels grew for up to seven weeks. "While the resulting vessels looked like natural vessels, they were not strong enough ...Adverse outcomes from blood clot therapy may be due to patient characteristics, not dosing errors
...with heart attack who receive a certain blood clot dissolving therapy, patient-related factors appear to be more responsible for adverse outcomes, not dosing errors, according to a study in the April 13 issue of JAMA. Several studies have reported higher death, stroke, and major hemorrhagic event rates in patie...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...genetically altered version of t-PA. t-PA works by dissolving blood clots and is most effective when administered within hours of heart attack symptoms. Using the data collected from ASSENT-2, the researchers analyzed to what extent incorrect dosing whether over or under was responsible for death, stroke or m...