Edwards Lifesciences Reports Strong Gains in First Quarter Net Income
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (NYSE: EW) today reported 56 percent net income growth and 50 percent earnings per share growth for the first […]
Fresenius Medical Aquires the Extracorporeal Alliance
Everest Healthcare Services Corp., the parent company of The Extracorporeal Alliance, announced on Nov. 2, 2000 that it has signed a definitive […]
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 […]
Changes in Hemostasis During Pediatric Heart Surgery: Impact of a Biocompatible Heparin-Coated Perfusion System
BACKGROUND: This study describes the response in hemostasis during open-heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in children (
Initial Experience With Miniature Axial Flow Ventricular Assist Devices for Postcardiotomy Heart Failure
BACKGROUND: The recently introduced Impella Recover (Impella CardioSystems AG, Aachen, Germany) microaxial flow left and right ventricular assist devices (LVAD/RVAD) were evaluated […]
Joint Commission Seeks Solutions to National Concerns about Staffing at Health Care Facilities
(Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. – September 28, 2000) The nation’s leading evaluator of health care quality, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare […]
Partial Left Ventriculectomy and Limited Heart Transplantation Availability
Background: Partial left ventriculectomy, a novel cardiac volume reduction operation, is applied in countries without a developed heart transplantation program. We sought […]
LVAD Beneficial Even For Patients With Most Severe Heart Failure
Implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) can dramatically improve the survival of patients with advanced heart failure, especially those being […]
Management of In-transit Melanoma of the Extremity With Isolated Limb Perfusion
Abstract: In-transit metastases for melanoma are a type of stage III regional metastatic disease that are intradermal or subcutaneous nodules growing within […]
High-dose Multivitamins Adversely Affect Coronary Plaque Composition
VANCOUVER (Reuters Health) – High-dose multivitamin supplements promote the development of fibrosis at the site of angioplastic intervention, according to findings presented […]
Normothermia Does Not Improve Postoperative Hemostasis Nor Does it Reduce Inflammatory Activation
Background: Despite its common acceptance in clinical practice, the effective benefits of normothermic systemic perfusion during coronary artery bypass operations are far […]
Randomized Trial Comparing Off-Pump to On-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in High-Risk Patients
OBJECTIVE: The subset of patients most likely to benefit from off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains a controversial issue, but the […]