SCAI'S Hildner Lecture traces progress through 30 years of interventional cardiology
...ronary interventions, but in advanced new catheter procedures once unimaginable to all but the most innovative thinkers. The path to success has not always been smooth, however. For example, it was once thought that atherectomy would play an important role in treating restenosis by slicing away, boring throug...ENDEAVOR III Trial reports key findings on new-generation stent
... combined rates of death, heart attack, and repeat procedures were 8.2 percent in both groups of patients. At the Orlando SCAI meeting, Martin Leon, M.D., FSCAI, a professor of medicine and associate director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy at Columbia University Medical Center in New York ...Procedural changes may reduce cardiac arrests outside pediatric ICUs
...ped by 63 percent after doctors and nurses changed procedures to call the cardiac emergency team or Code Blue Team, whenever warning signs indicated a patient's lungs or heart might stop working. Previously, staff summoned the team only after starting cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after a cardiac arrest....Racial disparities in treatment of patients with cirrhosis and complications of portal hypertension
...transplants, they may be candidates for palliative procedures including endoscopic band ligation or portosystemi...including their likelihood of receiving palliative procedures or transplants, researchers, led by Paul J. Thuluvath. MD (and Geoffrey Nguyen, Fellow in Gastroente...Interventional cardiologists assemble in Orlando, Fla., for SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions
...sty, stents, and other nonsurgical, catheter-based procedures used by interventional cardiologists to treat cardiovascular disease are increasingly replacing open-heart surgery. The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) will bring together experts from around the world to share the lat...LAP-BAND System surgery improves insulin resistance
...idered the "gold standard" by which other surgical procedures are judged. This procedure involves a rearrangement of the gastrointestinal (GI) architecture so that food bypasses about 95 percent of the stomach and large parts of the small intestine. In contrast, LAGB involves only a restriction on the stomach, ...Good news on heart attack and chest pain
...ls increased their use of certain drugs, tests and procedures that have been proven to help reduce the immediate and long-term impact of acute heart problems. The results suggest that concerted efforts to standardize heart care are working. But, the authors caution, there are clouds in this sunny sky. Many pa...Dua anti-reflux stent relieves GI upper cancer distress
...ver, these stents frequently clog requiring repeat procedures to replace the clogged stents. The exact mechanism... limited, this difference may translate into fewer procedures to maintain bile duct patency. That means a better quality of life for these cancer patients," says ...Simple system accurately predicts weight-loss surgery risk
...orm a series of smaller, and therefore less risky, procedures over time....US critical care delivery system in critical condition
...y ill elders, the growth rate in elective surgical procedures requiring intensive care unit admission, such as bypass surgery, is growing fastest among this age group," said Amber E. Barnato, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., assistant professor, department of medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "All of t...Satellite images aid implementation of agricultural reforms
...ms and species. By using special classification procedures on VHR satellite images, identification of these landscape features is possible. In combination with digital aerial images, even single trees can be delineated. By comparing older and recent images of these same areas with the processed reference lan...Majority of state Medicaid programs have or plan to have 'pay-for-performance' programs
...nstances, revenue can be generated when additional procedures are needed to correct previous errors or omissions. Pay-for-performance is an approach to reimbursing health care providers that is designed to alter this practice. As costs escalate rapidly, large purchasers of health care servicesemployers, health ...OHSU surgeon implants donated tissue allografts
...rawford who performs several cartilage restoration procedures each week has already seen the benefit for his patients. The opportunity to correct disability and restore joint function offers the patients the chance to return to a healthy, pain-free and productive life. Crawford said the collaboration between...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 4, 2007
...is chemistry in vascular surgery and other medical procedures can be envisioned," the report states. "Possible applications of these polymers include arterial stenting, bypass grafting and surgical endarterectomy." ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Nitric Oxide-Releasing Fabrics and Other Acrylonitrile-Based ...Hospital errors rise 3 percent -- HealthGrades patient-safety study
...hospitals had to be rated in at least 19 of the 28 procedures and diagnoses rated by HealthGrades and have a current overall HealthGrades star rating of at least 2.5 out of 5.0. The final ranking set included 752 teaching hospitals and 857 non-teaching hospitals. The top 15 percent, or 242 hospitals, were ident...Rhode Island Hospital study confirms RF ablation effective for treating inoperable lung cancer
...ed radiofrequency ablation replacing many surgical procedures for the treatment of cancer as we continue to improve these minimally invasive treatment methods." Other survival rates for stage I, non-small cell cancer treated with RF ablation were 78 percent for one year, 57 percent for two years, 36 percent ...Mayo Clinic study shows drug-eluting stent use in heart patients determined more by insurance type
...show bare-metal stents tend to require more repeat procedures -- either repeat stents or bypass surgery, and the...e costs. Hospitals that do a high volume of stent procedures tend to use drug-eluting stents more frequently; hospitals with lower procedural volumes tend to use...Contrast agent puts new light on diagnosing breast cancer
...d that it can be used to guide surgeons performing procedures near growing bone. Future studies will focus on translating the new compound to the clinic for human testing. It will likely be a few years before the compound is ready for use in human trials, according to Frangioni. The American Chemical Soci...Pairing medical therapy with coronary intervention fails to reduce heart disease deaths
...rteries to improve blood flow to the heart. These procedures are performed more than 1 million times a year. Since the introduction of PCI more than 30 years ago, there have been enormous advances in the understanding and medical treatment of coronary artery disease. While PCI is known to improve survival when......ombined rates of death, heart attack, or unplanned procedures to relieve ischemia, a shortfall of blood and oxygen to the heart muscle (16.3 percent vs. 16.5 percent vs. 16.4 percent, respectively). "These results, in concert with the 30-day data previously published from ACUITY, demonstrate that bivalirudin ...