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. Read more about HEART CAT SCANS
There are important new studies concerning heart disease and protecting against death associated with heart attack. Read more about HEART STUDIES-- PLAVIX AND OLDER WOMEN
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. Read more about HEART MYOBLAST CELL INJECTION
Pat Brough had been suffering for years with cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart muscle becomes inflamed and doesn’t work as well as it should. “I often experienced severe shortness of breath. I would just find myself unable to get my breath. I would wake up in the middle of the night gasping like somebody just put a pillow over my head,” explains Pat. Pat’s health began to deteriorate rapidly. She was one step away from needing a heart transplant when she made the decision to have the heart jacket procedure. “My family flew in from California to see me. I thought I must be dying, otherwise they wouldn’t all come see me.” Read more about HEART JACKET
The heart pump is a small piece of technology that may one day be able to save thousands of lives, the lives of people who die waiting for a heart transplant. “There is no limit on the number of devices and machines that you can make whereas there is a limit on the number of human hearts that you can obtain,” says Dr. James Macgovern of Allegheny General Hospital. Read more about HEART PUMP
