Physicians Slower To Incorporate Newer Heart Drug Treatments
Physicians' prescription practices for drugs proven effective for treating heart disease has shown steady improvement over the past three years.
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Implantable Pumps Extend Lives of Patients Too Sick For Transplant
Pumps implanted into the chest to maintain circulation can significantly extend the lives of the sickest patients in end stage heart failure.
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Gene Variants Predict Heart Muscle Damage After Cardiac Surgery
The findings should help physicians identify those patients who are at highest risk before heart surgery.
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Medicare Collaborates To Help Doctors and Patients Use Implantable Defibrillators Effectively
Medicare works to learn more about the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death.
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New Mechanical Heart Implanted at the MUHC
Surgeons have successfully implanted a new kind of mechanical heart.
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Gene Therapy Reverses Genetic Mutation Responsible for Heart Failure in Muscular Dystrophy
Study shows great promise for treating adult heart failure.
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Near Infrared Laser Device Can Measure Brain Oxygen Levels
The device is important given the rising concerns about potential cognitive impairments suffered by some patients undergoing open heart surgery.
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It Only Takes A Minute To Save A Life!
By knowing how to recognize and respond to a cardiac emergency, a person's odds of survival and recovery may increase by 30% or more.
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"Micro-CT" Scans of Mice Zoom in on Heart Defects
The researchers believe they can unlock many mysteries of heart disease.
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Pricey Defibrillators May Be Worth Every Penny
ICDs are implanted under the skin of patients whose lower heart chambers beat too quickly or quiver ineffectively and who are at risk of cardiac arrest.
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New Insights into Cost Effectiveness of Implanted Heart Device
The use of implanted defibrillators that keep the heart beating in proper electrical rhythm to prevent cardiac arrest appears to be cost effective.
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Molecular Defect Found That May Cause Heart Failure
The root causes of heart failure are not known, but the research found some drastic changes in the way muscle cells in the failing heart handle calcium.
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Researchers Find Potential Biomarker for Heart Failure
Signs of heart failure may be in the blood and an enzyme, found in the blood, could be a potential marker for heart failure.
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Heavy Drinking Linked with Irregular Heart Rhythm
Heavy drinking is associated with a significantly increased risk of a rapid, irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation.
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Patients With Heart Failure At Greatest Risk of Death Least Likely To Receive Appropriate Medications
Patients at greatest risk of death often are not prescribed ACE inhibitors that reduce the risk of death for patients with heart failure.
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Loyola Researchers Discover Congestive Heart Failure Biological Marker Which Speeds Diagnosis, Treatment
A simple blood test can quickly identify what type of congestive heart failure (CHF) a patient has, improving diagnostic accuracy and enabling faster treatment.
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Medication Reduces Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke and Cardiovascular Death Before and After Angioplasty
Use of the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel before a coronary angioplasty reduced the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke within 30 days following the procedure.
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New Treatment Strategy Available for Heart Failure Patients
Heart failure patients may receive a better treatment due to the new information that doctors have on the sequence of drugs given to heart failure patients.
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Insulin Resistance Associated With Increased Risk for Congestive Heart Failure
The death rate for patients with congestive heart failure is 4 to 8 times that of the general population. The predominant causes of heart failure are hypertension and coronary heart disease.
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Heart Failure Worsens With Anemia, Increases Risk of Death
Low hemoglobin levels are a predictor of increased risk of death and complications among heart failure patients.
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Heart Failure Facts
Heart failure is a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to the body's other organs.
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New Heart Failure Guidelines Stress Early Diagnosis and Treatment
Early diagnosis and new treatments can help battle heart failure.
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Most Heart Failure Cases Are Discovered After Patients Admitted To Hospital
About three out of four people diagnosed at a hospital with congestive heart failure were admitted for some other health condition.
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Scientists Use Gene Therapy To Prevent Heart Arrhythmias from Stem Cell Transplants
Team says it has discovered the source of the heart arrhythmias to be transplantation of myoblasts.
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Study: Vasodilators First Choice for Some Heart Patients
Fewer front line medications exist for treating hospitalized patients with acute decompensated heart failure.
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Fear of Lawsuits Affects Emergency Physicians' Heart Care Decisions
Emergency physicians are more likely to admit and order tests for patients with chest pain or other heart symptoms due to the fear of malpractice suits.
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Newly Discovered Role for Heart Response Enzyme May Yield Better Heart Failure Therapy
The findings may offer a new approach to the treatment of heart failure.
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New Drug Is Effective In Reducing Rejection In Heart Transplant
A drug, called daclizumab, is effective at reducing organ rejection and risk of infection in heart transplant patients.
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Recognize and Treat Heart Failure, It Is All Around Us
Heart failure remains a growing problem in the United States and is the only cardiovascular disease that is increasing in prevalence.
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New Uses for Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators Offer Hope for Saving Additional Lives
In addition to monitoring the person's heart rhythm, an Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator can prevent sudden death from cardiac arrest due to life threatening abnormally fast heart rhythms.
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Heart Surgery and Quality of Life
Five years after heart surgery, 42 percent of patients had measurable cognitive decline.
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Yale-New Haven Hospital Announces a U.S. Medical First in Cardiac Care
The first hospital remove both left and right cardiac assist devices, after recovery of native heart function in a patient previously waiting heart transplant.
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Slightly Higher Body Mass Linked to Lower Death Rate After Bypass Surgery
While the extra pounds likely have an overall negative effect on heart health, slightly heavier people seem to fair better during the physical trauma of coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG).
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New Hope for Treating Heart Rhythm Irregularity That Often Follows Surgery
One of the most common postoperative complications of heart surgery, Atrial fibrillation, may soon have an effective treatment.
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Blacks Less Likely to Get Expensive, Newer Heart Treatments
Blacks who suffer the most common type of cardiac ischemia are less likely to receive expensive or newer heart treatments.
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Hemoglobin-Based Agent Reduces Need for Transfusion During Heart Surgery
An agent, made of purified human hemoglobing, may be safe to replace blood lost during heart surgery.
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Zapping The Heart Back Into Rhythm
Called catheter ablation, the approach has cured more than 1,000 UM patients who have the most common form of irregular heart rhythm.
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Increase in Heart Surgery Mortality from SSRIs or Depression?
Patients who were using a class of anti depression drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) prior to undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery have significantly higher death and rehospitalization rates.
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Half of Heart Patients Unable to Recall Details of Informed Consent, Yet Most Satisfied
The key to patients' perception of being informed and satisfaction with their health care is the personal interaction between the patient and the physician.
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Heart Specialist Care More Often Evidence-Based and Leads to Lower Mortality Than Generalists'
Cardiologists appear to reduce by almost 30 percent the chances of heart disease patients from dying in the hospital.
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