Therapies
Friday, February 24th, 2012
News-Medical: Published on February 23, 2012 at 8:16 AM How information is presented to a patient makes a difference in health decisions A paper from Rhode Island Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit examines whether different presentation formats, presenter characteristics, and patient characteristics affect decision-making for patients requiring treatment for asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Based on […]
Therapies
Friday, February 24th, 2012
American Heart Association: Feb, 21, 2012: Andrew E. Darby, MD; John P. DiMarco, MD, PhD: Correspondence to John P. DiMarco, MD, PhD, Box 800158, Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia encountered by clinicians. The prevalence of AF increases with age, and the elderly are […]
Therapies
Friday, February 24th, 2012
By: MICHELE G. SULLIVAN, Family Practice News Digital Network -02/17/12. Thrombolytic drugs appear to be as safe for children with acute ischemic stroke as they are for adults, based on an analysis of more than 9,000 patients in the Kids’ Inpatient Database. Overall, 4% of the children in the database who got the clot-busting drugs had […]
Therapies
Friday, February 24th, 2012
ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2012) — UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center is now offering patients with atrial fibrillation the breakthrough benefits of heat energy, or radio frequency waves, to irreversibly alter heart tissue that triggers an abnormal heart rhythm or arrhythmia. The THERMOCOOL® SF Catheter is an FDA-approved outpatient procedure for an early-stage form of the […]
Atrial Fibrillation
Friday, February 24th, 2012
BY DR. ANTHONY PEARSON | Posted: Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:15 am Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm abnormality in the United States today. It is a major cause of stroke, disability and death and is equally prevalent in men and women. Women often don’t realize that they can be at risk for atrial fibrillation because, […]
Guidelines, Therapies
Friday, February 24th, 2012
The American College of Chest Physicians – Feb. 7, 2012. The Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines include more than 600 recommendations for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of thrombosis, addressing a comprehensive list of clinical conditions, including medical, surgery, orthopedic surgery, atrial fibrillation, stroke, cardiovascular […]
News
Friday, February 17th, 2012
ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2012) — The disparity in stroke-related deaths among black and white children dramatically narrowed after prevention strategies changed to include ultrasound screening and chronic blood transfusions for children with sickle cell anemia, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2012. Before stroke prevention efforts changed in 1998, black […]
News
Friday, February 17th, 2012
S. Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD, ol. 69 No. 2, Archneur.ama-assn.org February 2012. Arch Neurol. 2012;69(2):161-167. doi:10.1001/archneurol.2011.1175. There is no current medical therapy for stroke recovery. Principles of physiological plasticity have been identified during recovery in both animal models and human stroke. Stroke produces a loss of physiological brain maps in adjacent peri-infarct cortex and then a […]
News
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Health News Digest By Staff Editor – Feb 13, 2012 – 4:08:01 PM. Findings Suggest Simple Methods to Detect Consciousness May Bypass Patients Who Can Communicate, But Not in Recognizable Ways (HealthNewsDigest.com) – NEW YORK (Feb. 13, 2012) — Only by employing complex machine-learning techniques to decipher repeated advanced brain scans were researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill […]
News
Friday, February 17th, 2012
By: HEIDI SPLETE, Cardiology News Digital Network – 02/13/12. The increased stroke risk was highest within 12-14 hours of exposure to PM2.5 and was most strongly associated with traffic-related pollution, the researchers noted. The mean age of the patients was 73 years; 55% were white, and 68% were women. The most common determined causes of the strokes […]
