Stent Danger
There’s new evidence the latest generation of coronary stents--those that are coated with drugs--may in fact be associated with an increased risk of blood clots in the heart arteries they’re designed to keep open.
Coronary stents have been an incredible advance in cardiology. The latest type, those that are coated with drugs, help keep the arteries clear by preventing scar tissue from developing.
But now comes new worries over a delayed side effect: a blockage of these stents by clot formation. It has doctors wondering how to best address the problem.
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Endometriosis
No one knows exactly what causes endometriosis, but over the years many theories have been advanced.
Endometriosis affects 90 million women worldwide and about 12 million in the United States.
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HEART CAT SCANS
Fast heart CAT scans have been a screening test in limbo. The exact role and place for this exam, which is becoming more widely available, hasn’t been well defined, until now.
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NEW STROKE DRUG
New drug Cerovive could help lessen the damage once a stroke has occurred. It appears to do damage control, and limit the amount of brain affected by stroke after it’s happened. Learn more about it in this two-minute video clip. Cerovive significantly reduced disability from stroke compared to placebo in a study that involved 1700 people. It works to insulate the brain tissue that surrounds the initial area suffering a stroke, so that the damage is limited. It might be used along with other medications that reopen blood flow.
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ASPIRIN AND ELDERLY CONCERNS
ASPIRIN AND ELDERLY CONCERNS
There is a warning out tonight by medical researchers that individuals over the age of 70 need to think twice about using aspirin on a daily basis.
It’s important to realize that as benign as certain drugs. Maybe, and even if they’re available over the counter, there are risks and side effects. This study says that those risks become markedly significant in those over 70…so much so that maybe, it’s not worth it to use it.
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STROKE TREATMENT FAILURES
A disturbing report out of the American Heart Association says that the vast majority of stroke patients are not getting the best possible care during, and after hospitalization.
Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability.
The problem really lies first in the fact that people just don’t know enough about stroke to recognize the signs of stroke. Even once they are in the emergency room, the study shows that doctors are not giving patients what they need.
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DRUG ELUTING STENT WARNING
Drug-eluting stents have helped to markedly improve the results of stent procedures designed to reopen clogged arteries. But a researcher in the Netherlands warns that patients need to make sure they stay on an important medication, otherwise, the drug-eluting stent could end up causing a blockage instead of preventing it.
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Clot Busters
Once your heart attack is diagnosed, your treatment begins immediately -- possibly right in the ambulance or emergency department. The knowledge gained in the past years regarding acute coronary syndromes and what happens in the artery during a heart attack has helped guide medical treatment. The goals of medication therapy are to break up or prevent blood clots, prevent platelets from gathering and sticking to the plaque, stabilize the plaque, and prevent further ischemia.
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HEART STUDIES-- PLAVIX AND OLDER WOMEN
There are important new studies concerning heart disease and protecting against death associated with heart attack.
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HEART MYOBLAST CELL INJECTION
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HEART MYOBLAST CELL INJECTION
A new heart attack treatment uses myoblast cells from different parts of the body to regenerate damaged heart muscle. Doctors have shown how they can regenerate parts of a heart that have been destroyed by a heart attack. The cells for this heart attack treatment come from the patient’s own thigh muscles.
This new heart attack treatment has the potential to be a huge advance in cardiology.
It used to be that once a piece of heart died after a heart attack, it couldn’t be brought back.
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