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Novel Stents Safe as Current Ones, May Be More Effective
... Mauri cautioned, too, that only 493 of the originally randomized 1,007 patients got two-year angiographic follow-up -- an insufficient number to prove equivalent safety. In a separate study, the ...
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The Agony of Long-Distance Runners -- Coronary Plaque
... in their heart arteries, according to a study reported here. Investigators performed computed tomography angiography on 25 people who had run at least one marathon a year since 1985, ...
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Radial Artery Matches Saphenous Vein for CABG
... 89% after one year. However, the question of long-term patency awaits a planned, five-year angiographic follow-up, according to Steven Goldman, MD, of the Tucson VA Hospital in Arizona, who ...
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Cilostazol Adds No Benefit to Dual Antiplatelet Therapy
... patients). The patients (mean age 62.8) were well matched at baseline on clinical and angiographic characteristics. About half received paclitaxel-eluting stents (Taxus) and 45% received zotarolimus-eluting stents (Endeavor). At ...
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Cardiac catheterization overused?
... in their clinical care,” said Bailey, who is president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. And some of the patients who underwent the tests had been restricting ...
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Heart Disease: More Accurate Prediction
... a man's risk for a cardiovascular problem or death within 30 days of the angiography. The results remained substantially better than the Framingham score alone after one year and ...
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Bailout stenting successful treatment for infants with constricted aortas
... in the March issue of , the official journal of The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. Aortic coarctation is a common congenital condition characterized by a narrowing of ...
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Positive Long Term Data Presented at ACC 2010 Demonstrate Sustained Safety and Efficacy Advantages of the Cypher(R) Sirolimus Drug-Eluting Stent Over the Endeavor(R) Zotarolimus-Eluting Stent
... low-risk patients with a single non-complex lesion and was only powered to assess an angiographic endpoint. SORT OUT III randomized 2,332 all-comers and was powered to assess a clinical ...
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Varian Medical Systems to Showcase Image-Guided Radiotherapy, Radiosurgery, and X-ray Imaging Technologies at Major Medical Meetings in Asia During March, 2010
... imaging in medical, dental, and other applications, as well as X-ray tubes for fluoroscopy, angiography, cardiology and CT imaging. "We offer our customers the largest selection of X-ray ...
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Women die more often than men from heart disease: study
... found that those hospitalized after suffering a cardiac attack were less frequently given an angiograph to study the heart's vessels. The technique involves dilating a coronary artery, and often ...
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STEMI Patients Helped by Aspirating the Clot
... were required to have moderate to large thrombi (grades 3 to 5) visible on angiography. Most (83%) had total occlusion of the vessel. The mean time from admission to ...
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New risk score better predicts heart risk
... to measure patient risk." Horne and colleagues looked at about 5,000 patients treated for angiography or vascular imaging. The study findings were presented at the annual scientific session of ...
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Heart risk may now be predicted better by using new risk score
... really improves a doctor's ability to measure patient risk." About 5,000 patients, treated for angiography or vascular imaging, were looked at by Horne and colleagues. (With Inputs from Agencies) ...
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Canon U.S.A. Showcases Total Imaging and Workflow Management Solutions at Vision Expo East (BIZ)
... five different photography modes with ease, including non-mydriatic FAF, Color, Red-free, Cobalt and Fluorescein angiography photography. The Retinal Imaging Control Software that comes with the CX-1 puts tools for ...
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PERSEUS Trial Results Demonstrate Positive Safety and Efficacy Outcomes for Boston Scientific's Novel Platinum Chromium TAXUS(R) Element(TM) Stent System
... endpoint of in-segment percent diameter stenosis at nine months as measured by quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) was also met. The Workhorse results also demonstrated similar safety for the TAXUS ...
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