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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CardiologyToday.com February 14, 2012. Lakkireddy D. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012;doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2011.12.014. Patients who continued the use of dabigatran during the periprocedural period of atrial fibrillation ablation had increased risks for bleeding and composite of bleeding or embolic complications compared with patients on uninterrupted warfarin therapy. In an observational study performed at eight high-volume centers from […]
Heart Health Matters: New Research Shows Majority of Americans in the Dark About Severity of Heart Rhythm Disorders, the Heart Rhythm Society Offers Patient Tips and Tools Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) February 14, 2012. According to a new survey issued by the Heart Rhythm Society, the majority of Americans are unaware of two serious and potentially […]
USC Uses Motion-Capture Technology to Heal the Injured By Katharine Gammon Thu., Feb. 9 2012 at 10:30 AM – Categories: A Considerable Town, Games, Startups, Tech: Startups is a new column about new companies, big ideas and bold discoveries happening in the L.A. area. Belinda Lange knows how to have some serious fun. A physiotherapist by training, Lange leads a group at […]
Study reveals quick way to identify those who will respond well to clot-buster alteplase Health US News: MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) — A new scoring system can help quickly identify stroke patients who will respond well to the clot-busting drug alteplase (Activase), Finnish researchers say. Their study, published in the Feb. 7 issue of the […]
HealthDay Reporter: Maureen Salamon: WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News): Treating stroke patients with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow appears to safely help them regain some of their lost abilities, two small new studies suggest. Indian researchers observed mixed results in the extent of stroke patients’ improvements, with one study showing marked gains in daily activities, such as feeding, dressing and […]
Wiley- Online Library: Abstract: Cardioembolic strokes account for one-sixth of all strokes and are an important potentially preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. Vitamin K antagonists (e.g., warfarin) are effective for the prevention of cardioembolic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and in those with mechanical heart valves but because of their inherent limitations are underutilized and […]
Results of the Prospective CATCH Study Shelagh B. Coutts, MD; Jayesh Modi, MD; Shiel K. Patel, BSc; Andrew M. Demchuk, MD; Mayank Goyal, MD; Michael D. Hill, MD for the Calgary Stroke Program Correspondence to Shelagh B. Coutts, MD, Foothills Hospital, C1261, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 2T9, Canada. E-mail scoutts@ucalgary.ca Abstract Background and Purpose—Transient […]
