News tagged with open chest
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The kiss of life can literally be the difference between life or death for someone who has stopped breathing. If the patient's heart has stopped as well, circulation of oxygenated blood can be maintained by external chest ...
Nov 04, 2011 |
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New findings highlight the benefit of exercise ECGs just as they are being scrapped
In the UK, the exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most common initial test for the evaluation of stable chest pain and has been used widely for almost half a century. However, recent NICE guidelines recommend that it ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Researchers find clues to common birth defect in gene expression data
Researchers at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), The Jackson Laboratory and other institutes have uncovered 27 new candidate genes for congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a common and often deadly birth defect.
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Trial by fire: A landscape-scale experiment in restoring Ozark glades
A giant experiment is under way at the Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis' 2,000-acre outdoor laboratory for ecosystem studies.
Jan 28, 2012 |
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Investors clamor for Facebook's IPO
Wall Street is about to get Facebook fever. The social networking giant with nearly 1 billion users is expected to file papers any day now to sell stock to the public. The timing stems partly from federal rules that would ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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UofL physicians, Jewish Hospital first in Kentucky to offer new aortic valve replacement
Some individuals with severe aortic stenosis – also known as narrowing of the aortic valve in the heart – who are not well enough to undergo open heart surgery have a new treatment option thanks to a new procedure ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Jan 03, 2012 |
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MRI scan 'better' for heart patients
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan for coronary heart disease is better than the most commonly-used alternative, a major UK trial of heart disease patients has shown.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Dec 23, 2011 |
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Discovering Autism: Services go to those who fight hardest
From the day her son was diagnosed with autism nine years ago, Stacie Funk has made it her full-time job to find him the best possible help. Hiring lawyers and experts to press her case, she established herself as a mother ...
Dec 19, 2011 |
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New incision-free surgery helps tame chronic acid reflux
(Medical Xpress) -- Adam Vasser would wake up at night choking on partially digested food and liquid. Stomach acid burned the delicate tissue of his throat. “I’d sleep really badly,” he said.
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Improved technology may obviate need for drug when assessing patients for a coronary stent
A new method for measuring narrowing in the arteries of the heart may allow patients to be assessed for a stent without having to take a drug with unpleasant side effects.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Dec 07, 2011 |
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American first: A patient treated with a disappearing heart device
The interventional cardiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) used the world's first drug eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold to successfully treat a woman suffering from coronary artery disease. This landmark ...
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Dec 05, 2011 |
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