News tagged with cardiac function

Scientists use silk from the tasar silkworm as a scaffold for heart tissue

(PhysOrg.com) -- Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated. Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscle cells. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Use of iodinated contrast media in imaging procedures appears to affect thyroid function

Exposure to iodinated contrast media during imaging procedures is associated with changes in thyroid function, and increased risk of developing hyperthyroidism, according to a report in the January 23 issue of Archives of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots

Women who are at risk for breast cancer may also be at greater risk for heart disease, new research has found.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Promising and perilous? The ambivalent role of the CXCL12/ CXCR4 axis in heart repair

The chemokine CXCL12 acts as a chemical signal which mobilizes hematopoietic and other types of stem cells to leave the bone marrow and enter the circulation. Secretion of CXCL12 also guides these cells to sites at which ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Restricted calorie diet improves heart function in obese patients with diabetes

A low-calorie diet eliminates insulin dependence and leads to improved heart function in obese patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Delayed stem cell therapy following heart attack is safe but not effective

NIH-funded trial shows that therapy with bone-marrow derived cells does not improve heart function after six months; future clinical benefits still possible.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wearable defibrillator can prevent death in people with arrhythmias

A wearable defibrillator can prevent sudden death in people with dangerous heart arrhythmias, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2011.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Diseased hearts to heal themselves in future

Cellular reversion processes arise in diseases of the heart muscle, for example myocardial infarction and cardiomyopathy, which limit the fatal consequences for the organ. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Results of the DEB-AMI Trial reported at TCT 2011

A clinical trial that compared the use of drug-eluting balloons (DEB) and bare metal stents (BMS) to both bare metal stents alone and drug-eluting stents (DES) found that the drug-eluting balloon group did not meet the primary ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds new pathway critical to heart arrhythmia

University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers have uncovered a previously unknown molecular pathway that is critical to understanding cardiac arrhythmia and other heart muscle problems. Understanding the basic science ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows decisions over life-sustaining treatment are likely to change

Patients with chronic conditions are likely to change their preferences for receiving emergency procedures in the event of cardiac arrest, according to new findings.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find hormone that predicts premature death in kidney patients

Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found that high levels of a specific hormone can predict which kidney patients will develop heart problems, require dialysis or die prematurely.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Promising target in treating and preventing the progression of heart failure identified

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a new drug target that may treat and/or prevent heart failure. The team evaluated failing human and pig hearts and discovered that SUMO1, a so-called "chaperone" ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Diastolic dysfunction appears to worsen over time; associated with increased risk of heart failure

A follow-up of participants in a heart function study finds that the prevalence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (left ventricular filling [with blood] is abnormal and is accompanied by elevated filling pressures) ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Not faster, but longer -- new drug changes beat in treating heart failure

A new drug which offers a radically different approach to treating certain types of heart failure has been shown to improve cardiac function in heart failure patients in its first clinical trials.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cardiac function curve

A cardiac function curve is a graph showing the relationship between right atrial pressure (x-axis) and cardiac output (y-axis).

Superimposition of the cardiac function curve and venous return curve is used in one hemodynamic model.

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