News articles tagged with 'ablation'
Stretchable balloon electronics get to the heart of cardiac medicine
— 8 Mar 2011 14:11 | HealthCardiologists may soon be able to place sensitive electronics inside their patients' hearts with minimal invasiveness, enabling more sophisticated and efficient diagnosis and treatment…
Cardiac catheter that can do it all
— 6 Mar 2011 19:20 | HealthIn an improvement over open-heart surgery, cardiologists now use catheters to eliminate damaged heart tissue in certain patients, such as those with arrhythmias. But this, too, can…
Liver cancer in cirrhotic patients effectively treated with radiofrequency ablation
— 16 Dec 2010 16:43 | HealthResearchers from Italy determined that radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a safe and effective therapy for managing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in cirrhotic patients. The high repeatability…
Robo-op marks new world first for heart procedure
— 16 Nov 2010 13:21 | HealthThe world's first remote heart procedure, using a robotic arm alongside 3-D mapping, is due to take place at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester…
UCLA uses new hybrid, precision heart procedures to help stop deadly arrhythmias
— 9 Nov 2010 11:52 | HealthNew techniques now being used at UCLA allow doctors to more precisely target certain areas of the heart to stop ventricular arrhythmias - serious abnormal rhythms in the heart's lower…
Physicians find early success with laser that destroys tumours with heat
— 15 Oct 2010 12:08 | HealthPhysicians at Mayo Clinic's Florida campus are among the first in the nation to use a technique known as MRI-guided laser ablation to heat up and destroy kidney and liver tumours. So…
Varicose vein study shows radiofrequency ablation causes less post-operative pain
— 17 May 2010 14:36 | HealthA study to compare two increasingly popular treatments for varicose veins has found that patients who received radiofrequency ablation reported less post-procedural pain than those…
World first remote heart operation to be carried out in Leicester using robotic arm
— 29 Apr 2010 08:52 | HealthA pioneering world first robotics system operation is to be conducted at Glenfield Hospital Leicester thanks to expertise at the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of…
Living longer: Colon cancer patients gain time with radiofrequency ablation treatment
— 17 Mar 2010 11:13 | HealthApproximately half of Americans living with colorectal cancer will develop liver metastases at some point during the course of their disease. Radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive…
New endoscopic treatment may spare Barrett's oesophagus patients from surgery
— 22 Feb 2010 14:00 | HealthEarly tumour formation in Barrett's esophagus (BE) can be effectively and safely treated with radiofrequency ablation (RFA), in combination with prior endoscopic removal of visible…