Hopkins study may change rules for treating heart failure
...or heart failure: obesity, high blood pressure and enlarged hearts (hypertrophy). All 36 had a slightly elevated ejection fraction of approximately 70 percent. Most had diabetes, and many were already taking medications for their conditions, which were temporarily withheld until the study was finished. The...Fox Chase study shows TURP patients with intermediate PSA should be considered high-risk
...th a TURP, which is often done for men who have an enlarged prostate with significant urinary symptoms unrelated to prostate cancer, is not an accurate picture of disease progression. "PSA is secreted from both normal and cancerous tissue," explained lead author David J. D'Ambrosio, M.D., a resident in the ra...VCU researcher leads international team in developing guidelines for treating hydrocephalus
...omputerized tomography (CT) Scan. If images reveal enlarged brain ventricles, a lumbar puncture or spinal tap should be performed to see if symptoms are relieved. If responsive, doctors and patients should then weigh the risks and benefits of the surgery before having a shunt implanted. NPH is a progressive n...Prevent prostate cancer with antioxidants? Gene pathway may reveal more clues
...experience with prostate disease -- with either an enlarged prostate or cancer....Parasite genome sequences offer hope for new drugs and vaccines, Science studies say
...al" disease resulting in fever, weight loss and an enlarged spleen and liver and sometimes death. Now that the genes of these parasites are mapped out, it's much easierto identify genes that are critical for parasite survival. Genesencoding proteins that are involved in critical biological processesoften ser...Catchers mitts don't provide enough protection
...ood circulation in the hands. They also looked for enlarged fingers, a sign of injury, and asked players about hand symptoms. Circulation testing revealed abnormalities in blood flow to the gloved hands of catchers. In addition, catchers had significant index finger enlargement in the gloved hand compared to ...New approach to thyroid surgery reduces incision size
...who have had previous surgery or have an extremely enlarged thyroid. But most patients 65 percent of the 44 patients in the study likely can benefit from a smaller, more direct approach, Dr. Terris says. He notes that working through the smaller space increases surgery time about 20-30 percent, but that has...Enlarged prostate drug allows for less invasive prostate biopsies
A drug that is currently used to treat an enlarged prostate may improve the accuracy of prostate biopsies, a pilot study shows. The drug, dutasteride, suppresses blood flow in benign tissue of the prostate, allowing radiologists to better target cancer tissue using Doppler ultrasound, said Elizabeth...Heart scan surprises: CT reveals many non-heart problems, too
...ad fluid buildup in the lungs. Twelve patients had enlarged lymph nodes in the chest and three had masses in the upper anterior chest. Twenty patients had fluid in the sac that surrounds the heart; most of them were minor but one was major. Eight patients had an aneurysm or dissection in the upper part of th...'Fickle' enzyme helps protect, but also can promote heart failure, animal study shows
...tes cardiologist David Kass, M.D., a specialist in enlarged hearts, or hypertrophy, and a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute. But there is clearly a dark side, a biological cost, to this activity in some situations when the enzyme changes form, Kass added. I...No improvement in overall survival with lymph node removal in treatment of advanced ovarian cancer
...phadenectomy (31.2%) than among those who had only enlarged nodes removed (21.6%), and the duration of progression-free survival was also longer in the lymphadenectomy group (29.4 months versus 22.4 months). However, the 5-year overall survival rate and the median overall survival duration were similar in bot...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...mesh sac that wraps around the heart and holds the enlarged left ventricle in. Bolling is part of a team that presented results at the AATS meeting from patients who had mitral valve surgery, some of whom were randomized to receive an Acorn CorCap at the same time. Some patients had their mitral valves repai...Tamoxifen can reduce breast pain in prostate cancer patients
... patients assigned to bicalutamide alone developed enlarged breasts, compared with four of the 50 assigned the bicalutamide and tamoxifen and with 17 of the 50 assigned bicaluatmide and radiotherapy. 29 of the 51 patients on the drug alone developed breast pain, compared with three of the 50 receiving additio...