News articles tagged with 'coronary' (Page 2)
Metabolic syndrome found in 52 percent of patients after liver transplantation
— 8 Jan 2011 13:18 | HealthResearchers from Israel have determined that more than half of liver transplant recipients develop post-transplantation metabolic syndrome (PTMS), placing them at greater risk for cardiovascular…
Tobacco cessation medication may reduce hospitalisation for heart attacks
— 8 Dec 2010 19:02 | HealthThe use of tobacco cessation medication in a population may lead to reduced hospital admissions for heart attacks and for coronary atherosclerosis within the two years after use according…
Sheathless transradial intervention highly successful in treating complex lesions
— 8 Dec 2010 17:38 | HealthCardiologists from the Mayo Clinic performed sheathless transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to remedy complex lesions, achieving a 90% success rate with no radial complications.…
Screening tool may better identify heart disease in African-Americans
— 30 Nov 2010 21:38 | HealthIn a study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), researchers say they may have an explanation as to why African Americans,…
Statin RX may be overprescribed in healthy people without evidence of diseased arteries
— 17 Nov 2010 11:17 | HealthRolling back suggestions from previous studies, a Johns Hopkins study of 950 healthy men and women has shown that taking daily doses of a cholesterol-lowering statin medication to protect…
Combo high-tech CT scans just as good as older imaging to detect coronary artery disease
— 17 Nov 2010 11:14 | HealthHeart imaging specialists at Johns Hopkins have shown that a combination of CT scans that measure how much blood is flowing through the heart and the amount of plaque in surrounding…
Variation in heart disease death risk in England largely attributed to population characteristics
— 10 Nov 2010 14:49 | HealthIn England, a country with a universal access health care system, there is wide variation between local populations in the rate of death from coronary heart disease, which is largely…
Genetic variations linked with worse outcomes with use of antiplatelet drug for cardiac procedures
— 27 Oct 2010 11:57 | HealthAn analysis of data from previously published studies indicates that use of the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel for patients who have common genetic variants of a certain gene and are…
Studies show everolimus-eluting stent implantation reduces restenosis and repeat revascularisation
— 22 Oct 2010 18:25 | HealthTwo new studies have determined that everolimus-eluting stent (EES) implantation reduced the incidence of restenosis and repeat revascularisation in patients with calcified culprit…
ASIR technique reduces radiation dose associated with coronary CTA by 27 percent
— 22 Oct 2010 15:46 | HealthA new low-dose coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) technique called adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR) can reduce the radiation dose associated with coronary…