News tagged with diagnostic cerebral angiography
Brain surgery on Monday, home on Tuesday
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Norma Wooley checked into Loyola University Hospital on a recent Monday morning for brain surgery to repair a life-threatening aneurysm.
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Noninvasive screening test may detect narrowing in intracranial stents
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Great advances have been made in treating blockages in the arteries of the brain using angioplasty to widen the narrowed artery and a stent to hold the artery open. However, in-stent stenosis, or a re-blockage of the artery ...
Routine testing after aneurysm coiling carries low risk
Nov 18, 2008 |
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A very low risk of complication is associated with a routine test that determines whether a brain aneurysm treated with endovascular coiling has started to recur, a study led by the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute ...
Angiography detects cerebral aneurysms
May 07, 2007 |
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A Canadian study has found computerized tomography has a nearly 100 percent detection rate for acute ruptured cerebral aneurysms.
Newer cardiac imaging machines effective in detecting coronary artery stenosis
Aug 26, 2008 |
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The first multicenter study of the accuracy of some of the latest cardiac imaging technology found it was 99 percent as effective in ruling out obstructive coronary artery stenosis - or narrowing of these arteries – as the ...
What are the risk factors for rebleeding after negative angiography?
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Acute non-variceal gastrointestinal bleeding accounts for approximately 20% of emergency room visits and 5% of admissions. Although endoscopy has been used as a first-line treatment option in patients with gastrointestinal ...
'Window into the brain' reveals deadly secrets of malaria
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Looking at the retina in the eyes of patients with cerebral malaria has provided scientists with a vital insight into why malaria infection in the brain is so deadly. In a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and Fight for ...
Toward a urine test for diagnosing heart disease
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Researchers in Australia are reporting an advance toward the first urine test for diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD), the condition responsible for most of the 1.5 million heart attacks that occur in the United States ...
Exercise helps prevent age-related brain changes in older adults
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Older adults who exercise regularly show increased cerebral blood flow and a greater number of small blood vessels in the brain, according to findings presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North ...
Heart test found safe for pre-transplant kidney patients
Oct 15, 2009 |
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A screening test that measures whether a patient's heart is healthy enough for a kidney transplant is not as dangerous as once thought, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the Am ...
Clearing the way for detecting pulmonary embolism
Dec 01, 2009 |
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When it comes to diagnosing pulmonary embolism—a sudden blockage in the lung artery that could be deadly if not treated—which technique is the most effective? Research published in the December issue of The Journal of Nu ...
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