Noninvasive ultrasound treatment shrinks fibroids
CHICAGO - A totally noninvasive procedure using high-intensity ultrasound waves to...men are increasingly seeking minimally invasive or noninvasive alternatives to hysterectomy." Dr. Fennessy and colleagues studied 160 women with symptomatic fibroi...New technique puts brain-imaging research on its head
...r advanced MRI techniques with the hope of finding noninvasive ways to detect and characterize brain injuries....Use of amino acid supplement following a heart attack provides no benefit, may be harmful
...to standard postinfarct medications did not reduce noninvasive measures of vascular stiffness, improve ejection f...llowing a myocardial infarction. It neither alters noninvasive measures of vascular stiffness nor improves left ventricular function. L-arginine therapy in older p...Measurement of urinary protein can help detect recurrent bladder cancer
... colleagues investigated the clinical utility of a noninvasive urine test, which can be used in the physician's office, for the protein NMP22, as an aid in detecting recurrent cancer in patients with a history of bladder cancer. The researchers compared its usefulness with that of voided urine cytology, which mu...Test identifies best candidates for implanted cardiac defibrillator, screens out those not helped
...ncomfortable, and sometimes dangerous. Now a new, noninvasive test may help determine which patients are most li... which are unlikely to be helped by them, but this noninvasive and inexpensive office-based test can identify up to a third of candidates for the devices who are n......g continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). The noninvasive treatment prevents the upper airway from collapsin... movements and respiratory sounds. All sensors are noninvasive and do not cause pain or discomfort. The study involves first diagnosing the sleep apnea. The husba...Mayo Clinic noninvasive test for heart disease risk
...cause it is quick (takes 10-15 minutes), painless, noninvasive and likely to be less expensive compared with other cardiac screening tests, Dr. Kullo says. For the test, the patient lies on a bed and a pencil-like device (tonometer) is placed on the skin over the carotid artery (in the neck) and then the femoral...Evidence lacking for 'inflatable-pants' heart failure therapy
... heart failure. External counterpulsation (ECP), a noninvasive therapy to improve blood flow to the heart, is mos...o was not involved with the new review, said while noninvasive therapies for cardiac conditions are welcome, ECP is not widely prescribed for chest pain, and is ra...Scientists use PET scans to monitor lung inflammation noninvasively
A noninvasive approach for assessing lung inflammation should accelerate efforts to develop drugs for inflammatory lung conditions like cystic fibrosis and pneumonia, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report. Researchers have used...Drug-eluting and absorbable stents push interventional frontiers
...edures would be simplified. Equally as important, noninvasive imaging of the treated artery would also be possible with these stents. Currently, patients with permanent metal stents cannot safely undergo a magnetic resonance imaging scan, and images taken through a stent are often unclear with computed tomogra...Gold nanorods may make safer cancer treatment
...thod, which allows for a safer, deeper penetrating noninvasive cancer treatment, has just appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 128. Last year, the father and son research team of Mostafa El-Sayed and Ivan El-Sayed, showed that gold nanoparticles coated with a cancer antibody were ver...Growing body of research links lead to osteoporosis
...stalled machines worldwide, it provides a precise, noninvasive measurement of the historic accumulated exposure to lead, allowing researchers to place each of the research subjects into an either "low-lead exposure" or "high-lead exposure" category within their age groups. A DEXA-scan will then be used to measur...Sleep apnea treatment benefits the heart
... Shivalkar said that although CPAP is a simple and noninvasive solution, a number of patients do not tolerate having the face mask on during the entire sleeping period at night. Some sleep apnea patients are treated with surgery, but Dr. Shivalkar said there is no long term data available on the effects of surgi...Predicting successful outcomes in living-donor liver transplants
...CG test however, had certain benefits. "This novel noninvasive method has advantages in its simplicity, its real-time presentation of results without consuming a lot of time, and its cost-effectiveness," the researchers note. They conclude that being able to predict poor outcomes based on ICG elimination immedia...Endurance walking test distances improved significantly for COPD patients
...r for the patient to tolerate during exercise than noninvasive ventilation, but the two treatments will need formal comparisons. However, before any further development in Heliox therapy for COPD, improved methods of delivery of Heliox to the hospital clinic and community would need to be developed. Recent data ...Mayo Clinic finding may double genetic screening effectiveness for sudden death heart condition
...ocardiography images. Echocardiography is a common noninvasive way to make a moving picture of the heart's structure and function using ultrasound. It transmits sound waves through the heart and records them on an electronic sensor to create a moving picture. Findings In the final step, the researchers matched...OHSU joins the NIH in obtaining a 'two-of-a-kind' MRI magnet
...n. This technology will provide us with a powerful noninvasive window into the brain and allow us to explore unique aspects of disease." Research conducted by OHSU's internationally recognized Blood-Brain Barrier Program will also greatly benefit by the arrival of the 12T magnet. The blood-brain barrier is a n...Terahertz imaging may reduce breast cancer surgeries
...archers were able to distinguish both invasive and noninvasive breast carcinomas from healthy tissue. Twenty-two excised breast tissue samples were obtained from 22 women who underwent either wide local excision or mastectomy to remove breast cancer. All samples were first sliced and imaged with terahertz light,...Fewer, less severe coronary obstructions appear in African American than white men
... had a positive nuclear perfusion imaging study, a noninvasive stress test that when positive, suggests the possibility of blocked arteries. One manifestation of coronary artery disease (CAD) is the complete or partial obstruction of the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle (the coronary arteries). "P......nd be more visible on an MRI. This might allow for noninvasive imaging of fast-growing cancer 'hot spots' in tumors." Bhatia also is affiliated with the MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence. The technique initially is being used to study breast tumors. Bhatia added that it eventually may be app...