News tagged with angioplasty
Allergy to Plavix can be overcome: study
Allergies to Plavix, also know by its chemical name, Clopidogrel occur in about six percent of patients given the drug, vital for the prevention of life-threatening stent thrombosis after angioplasty and percutaneous coronary ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Take two robots and call me in the morning
In the 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage," medical personnel board a submarine that shrinks to microscopic size and enters the bloodstream of a wounded diplomat to save his life.
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Analysis does not support genetic test before use of anti-clotting drug
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that a certain type of genetic testing (for the genotype CYP2C19) be considered before prescribing the drug clopidogrel to identify individuals who may ...
Dec 27, 2011 |
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Angioplasties performed at centers without on-site surgery services are safe, study finds
Contrary to current guidelines, Mayo Clinic researchers have found that angioplasties performed at centers without on-site cardiac surgery capabilities pose no increased risk for patient death or emergency bypass surgery. ...
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Most hospitals miss critical window for heart attack transfer patients
Most heart attack patients transferred between hospitals for the emergency artery-opening procedure called angioplasty are not transported as quickly as they should be, Yale School of medicine researchers report in the first ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Nov 28, 2011 |
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South Asian patients require three times as much repeat angioplasty as white Europeans
South Asian patients with coronary artery disease were almost three times as likely to be readmitted to hospital for further interventional treatment to arterial plaque than their White European counterparts, according to ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Patients fare just as well if their nonemergency angioplasty is performed at hospitals
Hospitals that do not have cardiac surgery capability can perform nonemergency angioplasty and stent implantation as safely as hospitals that do offer cardiac surgery. That is the finding of the nation's first large, randomized ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Gelatin-based nanoparticle treatment may be a more effective clot buster
A targeted, nanoparticle gelatin-based clot-busting treatment dissolved significantly more blood clots than a currently used drug in an animal study of acute coronary syndrome presented at the American Heart Association's ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Results of the COBRA trial reported at TCT 2011
A clinical trial of patients with diabetes has demonstrated that cryoplasty post-dilitation compared to conventional balloon angioplasty in the superficial femoral artery (SFA) decreased the risk of in-stent restenosis (ISR). ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Results of the ROTAXUS trial reported at TCT 2011
A clinical trial testing the efficacy of rotational atherectomy (or rotablation, a process of drilling through plaque deposits) prior to implantation of a drug-eluting stent found that the process was not superior to standard ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Results of the RIFLE STEACS clinical trial reported at TCT 2011
Results of a randomized clinical trial suggest that using the transradial approach for angioplasty in patients with ST elevation acute coronary syndrome is preferable to the femoral approach, and should be the recommended ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Results of the DESERT registry reported at TCT 2011
The risk of late stent thrombosis (ST) in the first generation of drug-eluting stents continues for up to seven years after implantation, and certain types of patients, including smokers and those who are younger, are at ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Researchers report possible new approach to keeping arteries open after balloon angioplasties
Research at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine could help lead to new ways to prevent coronary arteries from reclogging after balloon angioplasties.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Sep 30, 2011 |
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Study examines platelet function testing for guiding antithrombotic treatment before PCI procedures
Among patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing a procedure such as angioplasty, those who received platelet function tests before receiving antithrombotic therapy to determine appropriate clopidogrel dosing and who ...
Sep 20, 2011 |
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15-minute door-to-balloon time may be a record for a Chicago hospital
When 45-year-old Bobbie Jeske arrived at Loyola's ER with a massive, life-threatening heart attack, it took Dr. Fred Leya just 15 minutes to perform an emergency balloon angioplasty.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Angioplasty
Angioplasty is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel; typically as a result of atherosclerosis. Tightly folded balloons are passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size using water pressures some 75 to 500 times normal blood pressure (6 to 20 atmospheres).
The word is composed of the medical combining forms of the Greek words αγγειος aggeîos meaning "vessel" and πλαστός plastós meaning "formed" or "moulded". Angioplasty has come to include all manner of vascular interventions typically performed in a minimally invasive or percutaneous method.
For more information about Angioplasty, read the full article at
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