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Screening for left ventricular dysfunction may have less value than thought
The value and cost-effectiveness of screening for left ventricular (LV) dysfunction remains unclear, particularly since specific, evidence-based treatments are not available for the majority of patients with preserved systolic dysfunction. view more (2009-06-12)
Texas Children's discharges first pediatric patient with implanted mechanical heart device
Texas Children's Hospital is the nation's first pediatric hospital to discharge a child while on an intracorporeal ventricular assist device (VAD), a feat previously accomplished only at adult institutions. view more (2009-11-12)
ESC Congress 2003: No Sex, Please - We Are Heart Patients
IMPORTANT: This press release accompanies a poster or oral session given at the ESC Congress 2003. Written by the investigator himself/herself, this press release does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Society of Cardiology ESC Congress 2003: We became recently aware of the high occurrence of problems regarding sexual activity in... view more... (2003-09-02)
New therapies may help some end-stage heart failure patients avoid transplant
Implanted pumps improved heart function enough in a small percentage of patients awaiting a heart transplant that they were able to leave the hospital without a pump and without a new heart. view more (2007-05-08)
Dietary copper may ease heart disease
Including more copper in your everyday diet could be good for your heart, according to scientists at the University of Louisville Medical Center and the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center. view more (2007-03-06)
Cathepsin B increases apoptosis in fulminant hepatic failure
The traditional view is that hepatocyte necrosis is the main feature of fulminant hepatic failure, but increasing evidence implicates a dominant role for hepatocyte apoptosis in this pathogenesis. view more (2009-03-20)
ESC Spokespersons react to COMET results presented today at Heart Failure / ISHR-ES 2003
Monday 23 June, Strasbourg, France: The COMET, The Carvedilol or Metoprolol European Trial, results were presented a Hot Line Session this morning at Heart Failure / ISHR-ES 2003, the meeting of the European Society of Cardiology's Working Group on Heart Failure, held jointly this year with the Annual Congress of the European Section of the... view more... (2003-06-23)
Heart failure patients at greatest risk of death least likely to receive appropriate medications
Even though certain medications such as ACE inhibitors reduce the risk of death for patients with heart failure, patients at greatest risk often are not prescribed these medications. view more (2005-09-14)
Protein changes in heart strengthen link between Alzheimer's disease and chronic heart failure
A team of U.S., Canadian and Italian scientists led by researchers at Johns Hopkins report evidence from studies in animals and humans supporting a link between Alzheimer's disease and chronic heart failure, two of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States. view more (2009-11-16)
Impaired kidney function raises risk of heart problems in the elderly
A study published next week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine suggests that elderly people with damaged kidneys are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease, such as heart failure and stroke, and other causes of mortality. view more (2009-01-21)
Fruit fly research may lead to better understanding of human heart disease
Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have shown in both fruit flies and humans that genes involved in embryonic heart development are also integral to adult heart function. The study, led by Rolf Bodmer, Ph.D., was published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. view more (2008-12-02)
Hopkins study may change rules for treating heart failure
A Johns Hopkins study has raised doubts about a long-accepted notion of what's going on in many cases of heart failure, suggesting that nearly half of patients with the disorder may be getting the wrong treatment for their disease. view more (2005-11-16)
Predicting outcomes for kidney transplant patients
A new study in the American Journal of Transplantation cites evidence in favor of using the protein biomarkers NGAL and IL-18 as a means to determine whether kidney transplant patients will require dialysis within the first week of transplant surgery. view more (2006-04-26)
Higher risk of death in heart attack victims with no chest pain
An absence of chest pain during a heart attack increases the risk of death, shows research in Heart. Previous research shows that chest pain is not typical of a heart attack in around one in four patients. The study focused on 3684 admissions to 20 adjacent hospitals in Yorkshire for suspected heart attack for three months in 1995. In 2100 cases a... view more... (2001-10-12)
New study: Pycnogenol reduces heart failure
A study to be published in an upcoming edition of the journal of Cardiovascular Toxicology reveals Pycnogenol natural pine bark extract from the French maritime pine tree, helps prevent damage that high blood pressure causes to the heart. view more (2007-05-17)
Columbia University Medical Center researchers show leaky muscle cells lead to fatigue
What do marathoners and heart failure patients have in common? More than you think according to new findings by physiologists at Columbia University Medical Center. view more (2008-02-12)
Moderate exercise may delay congestive heart failure, CU-Boulder study suggests
A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving laboratory rats that indicates low-intensity exercise may significantly delay the onset of congestive heart failure appears to have some promising implications for humans. view more (2005-12-09)
Penn researchers enlist proteins to 'switch on' heart tissue repair system in animal models
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are utilizing a protein to "switch on" the ability to repair damaged heart tissue. view more (2006-07-10)
New way to fix leaking mitral heart valves safe in initial testing
A new nonsurgical technique to repair leaking mitral valves in heart failure patients was safe in a study reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. view more (2009-06-24)
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer patients with heart conditions linked to increased death risk
Men with coronary artery disease-induced congestive heart failure or heart attack who receive hormone therapy before or along with radiation therapy for treatment of prostate cancer have an associated increased risk of death. view more (2009-08-26)
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