New insights into chronic inflammation and atherosclerosis
...tas of recent recipients of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, comparing biopsy specimens from patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease to those from patients without it. Their study, presented in the June 2007 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/arthr...Erectile dysfunction -- the canary in the mineshaft?
...nfarction, angina, need for coronary artery bypass graft and ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke. Risk of CVD in men with a history of nephrolithiasis was 1.15; the risk was highest for angina among individual outcomes analyzed. No increased stroke risk was observed. While the statistical risk for CVD in ston...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2007
...ucceeds. People who have undergone coronary bypass graft surgery frequently experience atrial fibrillation within 48 hours of surgery. This heart rhythm abnormality means longer hospital stays, higher costs, more medications, and increased risk of clot formation and strokes. The goal is a system that fore...The hepatitis C link: Diagnose, treat, transplant
...ients) and donor age. Patients were monitored for graft and patient survival at three months, one year and... donor organs. This includes hepatitis C positive graft that may benefit HCV-infected individuals who require orthotopic liver transplantation, as well as g...Nanomedicine opens the way for nerve cell regeneration
...an currently available synthetic nerve grafts. The graft material is composed entirely of aligned nanoscale...linically viable, they have also developed a novel graft fabrication technology in their laboratory. The most common method for fabricating polymer nanofibe...UPMC performs first beating heart transplant procedure in the US
...ith the device in 20 heart transplants with 30-day graft and patient survival at 100 percent. ...Quality versus quantity -- transforming kidney transplant policy
...ctancies may be given organs with a high chance of graft failure, making second or even third transplants n...with the most favorable risk factors for long-term graft survival. Patients would be ranked based on the expected gain in years-of-life compared to continuin...Angioplasty reduces long-term cardiac risk among heart patients with 'silent' ischemia
...arction (MI, heart attack), coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and PCI, with or without stenting, according to background information in the article. However, the effect of PCI on the long-term prognosis of patients with silent ischemia after a heart attack is not known. Paul Erne, M.D., of the Divis...Off-label and untested use of drug-coated stents appears widespread
...ions included use of stents for restenosis, bypass graft lesion, and long lesions. Untested indications included left main, ostial, bifurcation, or total occlusion lesions. The authors observed that approximately half of all use of drug-eluting stents occurs in off-label or untested settings. "Of 5,54...HCV patients survival after liver transplantation is not improving
...atistically significant improvement in patient and graft survival for non-HCV recipients between 1991 and 2...combination of a female recipient receiving an old graft as a strong risk factor for a severe recurrence. An accompanying editorial by Marina Berenguer of ...Machine preservation may promote more organ sharing
...ction in the rates of viral infections and delayed graft function, which is the inability of the kidneys to start working on their own without dialysis. "The routine use of machine preservation for ECD kidneys may lower hospital costs by reducing complications," said Stratta. "In addition, it may promote...JCI table of contents: May 1, 2007
...ng immune reactions that are often responsible for graft rejection. Alternatively, in LAMB3 revertant mosaic patients, the patient's own naturally corrected skin cells could be isolated and increased in number using special laboratory techniques and then used for grafting. Frank and Happle conclude that "t...Use of hydrocortisone reduces incidence of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery
...ercent and 40 percent after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and is even higher after heart valve surgery and combined valve and bypass surgery, according to background information in the article. AF is associated with increased illness, including increased risk of stroke and need for additional...Opening of specialty cardiac hospitals associated with increase in rate of cardiac procedures
...or total revascularization (coronary artery bypass graft [CABG] plus percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI]), CABG, and PCI of Medicare beneficiaries from 1995 through 2003. Hospital referral regions (HRRs) were used to categorize health care markets into those where (1) cardiac hospitals opened (n = 13)...Risk factors for diabetes following liver transplant
...e impact of NODM and its intervention on long-term graft and patient survival in patients with and without HCV," the author concludes. "As we develop newer immunosuppressive drugs, we now have the ability to improve the diabetic control by tailoring and manipulating the medications in liver transplant reci...Dually porous glass shows promise in helping damaged bone regenerate
.... Doctors have learned to do this by taking a bone graft from one part of a person's body and using it as a "scaffold" to stimulate bone tissue elsewhere to regrow. Likewise, biocompatible glasses have been used as bone transplants. Until now, however, no one has succeeded in using glass as a bone scaffo...Studies led by Rhode Island Hospital confirm safety and efficacy
...sk factors and prior PCI or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). While more elective procedures were done in the DES group, more complex lesions were attempted. In the comparison of the two groups, in-hospital mortality was 0.5 percent of DES cases versus 1.1 percent BMS of cases. At one year, mortality ra...Upgrading donor lung quality to improve availability
...urvival rates or any clinical measures of adequate graft function." According to the study, the problem of donor lung availability is a very serious one. In 2005, nearly 3,000 patients were on a national waiting list for lung transplantation. However, only 35 percent of these patients received transplants...Doctors know best when it comes to treating chronic coronary artery disease
...o open clogged arteries, or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery to reroute blood through new vessels grafted into place. After the cardiologists made their recommendations, the patients were randomly assigned to receive a treatment. After one year, all records were reviewed to determine the perce...... donors (Article, p.148). One-year and five-year graft survival rates were similar for transplantations from heart-beating donors under 60 and from non-heart-beating donors (about 90 percent and 85 percent, respectively). Living Kidney Donors Have Higher than Expected Blood Pressure Years after Ki...