Women who called 9-1-1 complaining of cardiac symptoms were 52 percent more likely than men to experience delays during emergency medical services’ (EMS) care, according to a report in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. The data did not reveal why women were more likely to be delayed. However, other research suggests that heart conditions in [...]
According to Millennium Research Group’s (MRG’s) US Markets for Electrophysiology (EP) Mapping and Ablation Devices 2009 report, an increase in the number of catheter ablation procedures for treating atrial fibrillation (AF) will fuel revenues in the EP ablation catheter market over the next five years. The ablation catheter market will exhibit strong growth from 2008 [...]
Prevention efforts that include proven methods for reducing cardiovascular disease could reduce heart attacks by 36% and strokes by 20% over the next three decades, according to a report published online Monday in the journal Circulation, the Oakland Tribune reports (Bohan, Oakland Tribune, 7/7). The report — jointly released by the American Cancer Society, American [...]
Sounding the chest with a cold stethoscope is probably one of the most commonly used diagnostics in the medical room after peering down the back of the throat while the patient says, “Aaaah”. But, research published in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics looks set to add an information-age [...]
World famous heart surgery specialist Dr. Michael DeBakey who was the heart surgeon operating the Russian president Boris Yeltsin dies at age 99. Dr. DeBakey passed away in the Methodist Hospital in Houston on Friday night. Many world leaders and presidents dotted the list of nearly 60,000 heart surgeries that Dr. Michael DeBakey has performed, [...]
A less invasive test commonly used to diagnose coronary disease also may be used to detect one of the leading causes of heart failure, say researchers at the Medical College of Georgia. By using a nuclear stress test to look at how fast blood flows into the heart’s pumping chamber – the left ventricle – [...]
Optimism is good for heart health, at least among men, a new study shows. University of Rochester Medical Center researcher Robert Gramling, M.D., D.Sc., found that men who believed they were at lower-than-average risk for cardiovascular disease actually experienced a three times lower incidence of death from heart attacks and strokes. The data did not [...]
Astellas Pharma announced that the investigational agent vernakalant hydrochloride increased conversion to normal heart rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation treated within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. AF is a serious condition characterized by an irregular heart rhythm and a high heart rate, and frequently leads to emergency department visits. The study results [...]
In the quest to discover how the mechanisms of disease work, researchers at the Universite de Montreal (UdM) have run the largest mathematical simulation of a heart ever assembled — a 2 billion element model — on a high-performance computing system from SGI. The new UdM model is up to 1,000 times more detailed than [...]
Different races are responding to heart failure treatment drugs and this fact was remaining unexplained, but a new research now shows that the key is gene variant. Heart failure sufferers have weakened hearts unable to pump blood properly. Later, heart grows bigger to be able to supply with blood. With the heart weakening more and [...]
