Columbia Research Suggests Need To Rethink Causes of Heart Failure
Research Shows More Than Half of Patients May Be Affected By Factors External to Heart.
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CT Images Reveal Serious Problems Outside The Heart
Heart scan surprises: CT images reveal serious problems outside the heart in 44 percent of heart patients scanned, U-M researchers find.
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Positive Outlook Linked to Longer Life in Heart Patients
Here is some health advice to take to heart: if you want to live longer, stay happy.
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Cocaine Users at Much Higher Risk of Coronary Aneurysm
These findings may also help explain why cocaine users have a higher risk of heart attack.
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Gene Variants Predict Bleeding After Heart Surgery
Genetic screening may become an important part of pre operative evaluation of Heart Surgery patients.
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Hospitals Performing More Heart Valve Surgeries
Hospitals that perform more heart valve replacement surgeries are far more likely to insert the type of aortic valve considered safest for most older patients.
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Blood Dilution During Bypass Surgery Associated with Kidney Damage
In order to safely operate on a non beating heart, physicians attach the body to a heart lung machine, which takes over for the stopped heart in circulating oxygen rich blood throughout the body.
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Finding of Heart Drug Interaction Suggests Path to More Effective Treatment
Key cellular receptors that regulate the heart's response to stress interact much more closely than previously suspected.
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Trends in Obesity: Risk Factors and Mortality
Obesity places a person at increased risk for heart attack, stroke and congestive heart failure, as well as orthopedic problems.
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Protein Implicated In Decline Of Aging Hearts
Researchers have linked elevated levels of a specific heart protein in elderly hearts to a decrease in the pumping ability of the heart.
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Heart Valve Ring Reverses Damage From Congestive Heart Failure, Easing Symptoms
Should we operate on heart failure patients, to try to improve their hearts' pumping ability?
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Patients at Risk if Surgery Delayed After Failed Angioplasty
Cardiologists have estimated that 25 percent of patients who unexpectedly require emergency heart surgery after a failed angioplasty are at risk of harm or death if any delays to the surgery are encountered.
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Heart Failure Consumes Significant Health Care Resources
Researchers have found that elderly patients with the debilitating heart disorder have health care expenditures up to three times higher than similar patients without heart failure.
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Cardiac MRI Detects Thinned Heart Muscle Previously Deemed Unsalvageable
Researchers have used cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to demonstrate that heart muscle that had been "thinned" by a heart attack could indeed be "saved" by restoring blood flow to the affected region.
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Genes Control Severity of Heart Failure, Study Finds
The findings could point researchers to genes that determine the severity of heart failure in patients.
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Exercise, Stress Management Show Physiological Benefits for Heart Patients
Exercise and stress management can not only reduce the levels of depression and distress in heart patients, but can also improve physiological markers of cardiovascular health.
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Beta Blockers Cost Effective to Society for Heart Failure Treatment
Beta blocker therapy for the treatment of heart failure can provide significant cost savings for the health care system. The study developed a model of heart failure progression over five years.
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Community Hospitals Do Not Transfer High-Risk Heart Patients For Aggressive Therapy
The research highlights a crucial weakness in the delivery of cardiac care that should be addressed to improve the outcomes of patients with heart attacks.
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Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator Use Significantly Lowers Heart Failure Mortality
With the population growing older, chronic heart failure will become a much more significant problem. The use of an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) can provide a significant reduction in mortality in heart failure patients.
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Minorities, Poor, Uneducated Bear The Burden of Cardiovascular Health Disparities
Hospitalization rates were higher in men for total heart disease and acute heart attacks but higher in women for congestive heart failure and stroke.
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Cardiovascular Health Disparities Must Be Eradicated
Research, advocacy and education must "close the gaps" in cardiovascular health disparities among races, an American Heart Association writing group reports.
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Aggressive Heart Therapies Still Underused, Despite Blood Chemical Status
Physicians are underutilizing aggressive therapies such as anti clotting drugs and invasive procedures in heart patients, despite the presence of biochemical markers in the blood indicating heart muscle death.
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New Light Shed On Atrial Fibrillation After Bypass Surgery
An analysis of 4,657 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery has shown that discontinuing certain heart medications such as beta blockers and ACE inhibitors can lead to abnormal accelerations in heart pumping known as atrial fibrillation.
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Heart Wall Abnormalities Predict Adverse Cardiac Events
Coronary artery bypass patients are twice as likely to suffer a later major cardiac event if they experience abnormalities in the motion of the walls of the main pumping chamber of their heart during surgery.
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Aspirin, Beta Blocker Usage Up, But Not Enough
While many clinical trials have consistently proven the ability of aspirin and beta blockers in forestalling future heart attacks, the new Duke analysis is the first to link consistent use of these drugs with improved outcomes.
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Modern Implantable Heart Devices Safe for Use in MRI Scans
scientists have found that modern implanted heart devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators, are safe for use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines.
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Implanted Devices Detect High-Risk Heart Failure Patients
Implanted devices intended to optimize the cardiac function of patients with heart failure have provided new insights into which patients might be at higher risk of dying suddenly from their disease.
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Most Advanced CT Scanner Improves Imaging of Heart, Avoids Need for Surgical Inspection
The newly upgraded device produces precise diagnostic pictures within five to 10 seconds for patients experiencing symptoms associated with heart attack.
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New Cardiac Arrhythmia Syndrome Identified
Research has defined a previously undescribed inherited cardiac arrhythmia syndrome that can lead to sudden death and can strike young, seemingly healthy people.
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Duke Researchers Uncover Genetic Link to Kidney Damage after Heart Surgery
Specific variants of genes involved in inflammation and blood vessel constriction are strongly associated with kidney damage in patients undergoing major heart surgery.
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Trial Supports Early, Aggressive Statin Use After Heart Attack
The benefits of statins in reducing the risk of heart attacks have been demonstrated in patients with stable coronary artery disease or those at risk for a future heart attack.
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Blood Transfusions Increase Mortality of Hospitalized Heart Patients
Heart patients are more than twice as likely to die during their first 30 days of hospitalization if they receive a blood transfusion to treat blood loss or anemia.
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Heart Failure Patients at Increased Risk During Non-Cardiac Surgery
Patients with heart failure undergoing major non cardiac surgical procedures are almost twice as likely to die as other patients. Outcomes after major non-cardiac surgery were similar in patients with coronary artery disease and those with no heart disease.
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Lipids Vary By Race, Gender
When it comes to lipid profiles, a key measure of heart disease risk, it appears that African Americans and women have it better than whites and men.
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Coronary Stents Do Not Improve Long-Term Survival
Findings have important economic and clinical implications for physicians who are deciding whether their heart patients should receive coronary artery bypass surgery, or less invasive angioplasty, which includes the placement of a stent.
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Heart Surgery Patients Receive Less Aggressive Discharge Care
Patients who undergo coronary artery bypass surgery are prescribed life saving medications at discharge significantly less frequently than heart attack patients who receive less invasive angioplasty procedures.
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Rare Heart Problem Decreases in Clot-Busting Era
The incidence of cardiac tamponade, an infrequent but potentially fatal event following a heart attack, has not increased despite the widespread use of clot-busting and blood-thinning medications.
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African-American Heart Attack Patients Fare Worse Long Term
Researchers found that African-American heart attack patients have a 1.7 times higher death rate than Caucasians one year after being treated in the hospital.
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Taking Pills, Even If Placebo, Predicts Better Survival in Heart Failure
Adherence to medical therapy, even if the medication is an inert placebo, relates to better outcomes for heart failure patients.
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Genetic Variant Linked To Weakened Heart Pumping
Researchers have discovered that a variant of a transcription factor crucial to the regulation of a cell's metabolism is associated with decreased pump function in heart patients. The finding could provide a clue to the variability of how heart failure develops in many patients.
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