An experimental blood test developed at UCLA that uses gene activity data from immune cells was 93 percent accurate in predicting survival rates for people with advanced heart failure who had surgery to implant mechanical ...
Dec 13, 2017
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The Cardiovascular Surgery Group at Osaka University succeeded in minimally invasive treatment of a patient with acute heart failure due to medical treatment-resistant cardiogenic shock by making use of Impella, a percutaneous ...
Oct 31, 2017
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Ask any doctor what can be done to maintain a healthy heart and the answer will most likely be to eat healthy and exercise regularly. But what happens when someone's heart is not healthy and does not pump blood properly? ...
Feb 16, 2017
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That was a question posed by a group of investigators, including Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Ashish Shah, M.D., in a novel study that used a computerized algorithm to highlight the value of high-volume transplant ...
Sep 20, 2016
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The nation's transplant system is proposing wider geographic sharing of adult hearts and a new way of ranking prospective recipients on waiting lists so organs more often get to the sickest patients.
Jan 29, 2016
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(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) there has been an increase in use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS), according to a study published in the Jan. 1 issue of The American ...
Dec 23, 2015
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More left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), a mechanical heart that helps pump blood, are now implanted annually than hearts transplanted in patients with advanced stages of heart failure. Evidence-based data indicate that ...
Dec 3, 2015
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A teenage girl faced with sudden rapid heart deterioration, a man in the prime years of his life suffering from debilitating heart failure and a former NFL athlete crippled by end-stage heart failure were all successfully ...
Oct 20, 2015
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Cardiogenic shock is when a patient's heart is so severely damaged that it is no longer able to pump blood to the organs of the body. When this occurs, mechanical circulatory support may be the only hope for survival. While ...
Aug 20, 2015
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Greater availability of percutaneous mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices for treatment of heart failure is helping expand treatment options for a rapidly growing number of acutely and chronically ill cardiac patients ...
Apr 7, 2015
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