News tagged with cardiac resynchronization therapy
New Therapy that Prevents Heart Failure (w/ Video)
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Patients who had a cardiac resynchronization device combined with a defibrillator (CRT-D) implanted had a 34 percent reduction in their risk of death or heart failure when compared to patients ...
Telemonitoring: A bridge to personalized medicine
Sep 01, 2009 |
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An increasing number of heart failure patients are treated with a number of complex devices, i.e. cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Recently completed and ongoing clinical trials such as MADIT-CRT and EchoCRT provide ...
Type of physician certification associated with risk of complications from ICDs
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Patients whose implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted by nonelectrophysiologists are at increased risk of complications and are less likely to receive a specific type of ICD when clinically indicated, ...
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New therapy found to prevent heart failure
Jun 23, 2009 |
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A landmark study has successfully demonstrated a 29 percent reduction in heart failure or death in patients with heart disease who received an implanted cardiac resynchronization therapy device with defibrillator (CRT-D) ...
New hope for heart failure patients: Cardiac resynchronization
Sep 01, 2009 |
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A therapy called cardiac resynchronization can significantly delay the progression of heart failure, according to a major international study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Cardiac Resynchronization: Race, Age, Geography Matter, Study Shows
Aug 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Race, age, and geography appear to play important roles in who receives cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), a proven treatment for some patients with heart failure, say researchers at Duke Clinical Research ...
Europe's device therapy use for heart failure doubles 2004-2008, some countries have low uptake
Nov 30, 2009 |
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The use of implantable devices for the treatment of heart failure increased "enormously" in Europe between the years 2004 and 2008, but there still remain large differences between countries, according to a study reported ...
Cardiac devices and advanced heart failure: Are we selecting the wrong patients?
Jun 07, 2008 |
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Patients with advanced heart failure may be receiving implantable cardiac devices that do not help them because they are too ill to benefit from the treatment, a Saint Louis University study found.
Study finds it's safe to treat HER2-positive breast cancer with trastuzumab and adjuvant radiation
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Standard adjuvant treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer patients, following primary surgery for their cancer, is Trastuzumab (Herceptin)--typically used in combination with chemotherapy. However, a new study by researchers ...
Early heart attack therapy with bone marrow extract improves cardiac function
Jun 29, 2009 |
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A UCSF study for the treatment of heart failure after heart attack found that the extract derived from bone marrow cells is as effective as therapy using bone marrow stem cells for improving cardiac function, decreasing the ...
First gene therapy for heart failure offered at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
Jun 18, 2008 |
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[B]NYC's only medical center offering promising therapy as part of CUPID clinical trial[/B] Could injecting a gene into a patient with severe heart failure reverse their disabling and life-threatening condition? Physician-scientists are ...
Cardiac ultrasound imaging goes to handheld
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Non-invasive imaging has revolutionized the diagnosis of the most common cardiac diseases such as valve problems and coronary heart disease. In addition, imaging techniques are developing rapidly and we anticipate that non-invasive ...
Different treatment options in chronic coronary artery disease
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Sometimes cardiologists and cardiac surgeons can agree! There is often disagreement between the professions of cardiology and cardiac surgery about the proper therapy for coronary artery disease (CAD)—and this can harm the ...
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