United Staes Health Spending Shows Record Rise
The country’s spending on healthcare reached an all-time record and grew at the fastest rate in a decade in 2001, in a […]
Heart Disease Primary Care In England Biased Towards Men
Primary care for patients with heart disease in England is systematically biased towards men even though there is no indication of deliberate […]
UCLA Approach Expands Heart Donor Pool for Transplantation
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters Health) – Marginal hearts from older donors can be used for older patients, thereby expanding the limited pool of […]
CardioGenesis Heart Laser Device Faces Key Review
Medical products maker CardioGenesis Corp. will appear before a US Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Monday to tout its newest […]
Mycophenolate Mofetil Appears Superior To Azathioprine At Slowing Progression Of Vascular Disease After Heart Transplant
Researchers reported today that patients treated with CellCept® (mycophenolate mofetil), a drug used to prevent rejection in organ transplantation, have significantly lower […]
Heart Failure Patients with Preserved Left Ventricular Systolic Function Have 5-Year Mortality Rate of 25%
Patients with clinical heart failure who also have impaired left ventricular systolic function have a significantly greater mortality risk than those with […]
Cardiac-Allograft Vasculopathy Is Significantly Lower Among Heart Transplant Patients Treated with Everolimus
The severity and incidence of cardiac-allograft vasculopathy was significantly lower among first heart transplant patients treated with everolimus compared with those treated […]
New Policy Curbs Exaggeration of Heart Transplant Urgency
Prior to a policy change in 1999, heart transplant centers were said to be increasingly exaggerating the severity of their patients’ illnesses […]
On-Pump Versus Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: More Heat-Shock Protein 70 is Released After On-Pump Surgery
Objectives: The use of cardiopulmonary bypass in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) may contribute to the postoperative inflammatory response. The molecular chaperone […]
Critical Values of Hematocrit and Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation as Parameters for Safe Cardiopulmonary Bypass
OBJECTIVE: Mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) is high despite a low hematocrit implies that the relationship between oxygen demand and supply is […]
The Hemobag: A New Device for Autologous Whole Blood Salvaging for Use With Any Extracorporeal Circuit
The Hemobag is a medical device developed by medical professionals with years of experience in cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery, to assist […]