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New Methods Needed To ID Cardiac Catheterization Candidates
It's time to re-think how patients are selected for cardiac catheterization, say doctors at Duke University Medical Center, after reporting in a new study that the invasive procedure found no significant coronary artery disease in nearly 60 percent of chest pain patients with no prior heart disease. "Our data show that up to two thirds of the patients undergoing invasive cardiac catheterization are found not to have significant obstructive disease," says Manesh Patel, MD, a cardiologist with the Duke Heart Center... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 03/11/2010 at 05:00 AM --
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New Methods Needed To ID Cardiac Catheterization Candidates
It's time to re-think how patients are selected for cardiac catheterization, say doctors at Duke University Medical Center, after reporting in a new study that the invasive procedure found no significant coronary artery disease in nearly 60 percent of chest pain patients with no prior heart disease... (Source: Cardiovascular / Cardiology News From Medical News Today)...
POSTED 03/11/2010 at 05:00 AM --
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Invasive heart test may be overused, researchers say
Almost 66% of patients who undergo cardiac catheterization despite no previous diagnosis of heart disease receive results indicating no 'significant' blockage, study finds.
Nearly two-thirds of those who undergo an invasive heart test called cardiac catheterization when they do not have diagnosed heart disease receive a clean bill of health, suggesting that the expensive procedure -- which exposes the patient to substantial amounts of radiation -- may be overused, researchers reported Wednesday. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)...
POSTED 03/11/2010 at 02:00 AM --
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HealthHelp Enhances Diagnostic Cardiology Services
HealthHelp, a leading specialty benefit management provider, continues to target health care cost drivers by adding diagnostic cardiac catheterization to its well-established and effective suite of services. "As economic and regulatory trends pressure the health care industry to rein in rising expenses, HealthHelp diligently explores ways we can apply our collaborative model to specialties that account for large percentages of that cost," explained HealthHelp president and CEO Cherrill Farnsworth... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)...
POSTED 03/10/2010 at 11:00 PM --
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Baylis Medical Corp * - TorFlex Transseptal Guiding Sheath - Class 1 Recall
Torflex Transseptal Guiding Sheath, Baylis Medical Company Inc., 5959 Trans-Canada Highway, Montreal, QC, Canada H4T1A1, (514) 488-9802; INCLUDES: One (1) Radiopaque Sheath, One (1) Radiopaque Dilator; And One (1) B* x 135 cm Guidewire. Intended to allow left heart catheterization procedure to occur through the right atrium. (Source: Medical Device Recalls since July 07, 2006)...
POSTED 03/10/2010 at 08:00 PM --
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Invasive heart test may be overused, researchers say
Nearly two-thirds of those who undergo an invasive heart test called cardiac catheterization when they do not have diagnosed heart disease receive a clean bill of health, suggesting that the expensive procedure -- which exposes the patient to... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)...
POSTED 03/10/2010 at 06:00 PM --
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Safety and effectiveness of the INVATEC MO.MA® proximal cerebral protection device during carotid artery stenting: Results from the ARMOUR pivotal trial
Conclusions: The ARMOUR trial demonstrated that the MO.MA® Proximal Cerebral Protection Device is safe and effective for high surgical risk patients undergoing CAS. The absence of stroke in symptomatic patients is the lowest rate reported in any independently adjudicated prospective multicenter registry trial to date. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. (Source: Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions)...
POSTED 03/10/2010 at 06:00 PM --
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Noninvasive testing adds little to risk-factor screening for predicting obstructive CAD
An NCDR study of diagnostic yield of coronary angiography finds only about a third of patients undergoing elective cardiac catheterization have obstructive disease.
For complete story visit theheart.org. (Source: theHeart.org)...
POSTED 03/10/2010 at 05:00 PM --
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NEJM Feature: Are too many angiograms being performed on patients w/o CAD?
Slightly more than one-third of patients without known disease, who underwent elective cardiac catheterization, had obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) out of nearly 400,000 patients at 663 sites, based on study findings published March 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine. However, in an interview, Timothy D. Henry, MD, from Minneapolis Heart Institute, said that when reviewing the study’s data in its entirety, it appears that most practices are performing these procedures properly. (Source: Cardiovascular Business News)...
POSTED 03/10/2010 at 03:02 PM --
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NEJM Feature: Are too many angiograms being performed on patients w/o CAD?
Slightly more than one-third of patients without known disease, who underwent elective cardiac catheterization, had obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) out of nearly 400,000 patients at 663 sites, based on study findings published March 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine. However, in an interview, Timothy D. Henry, MD, from Minneapolis Heart Institute, said that when reviewing the study’s data in its entirety, it appears that most practices are performing these procedures properly. (Source: Health Imaging News)...
POSTED 03/10/2010 at 03:02 PM --
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NEJM Feature: Are too many angiograms being performed on patients w/o CAD?
Slightly more than one-third of patients without known disease, who underwent elective cardiac catheterization, had obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) out of nearly 400,000 patients at 663 sites, based on study findings published March 11 in the New England Journal of Medicine. However, in an interview, Timothy D. Henry, MD, from Minneapolis Heart Institute, said that when reviewing the study’s data in its entirety, it appears that most practices are performing these procedures properly. (Source: Health Imaging News)...
POSTED 03/10/2010 at 03:02 PM --
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Cardiac Catheterizations: Too Many Performed?
A large percentage of patients without known heart disease who undergo invasive cardiac catheterization to check for dangerous artery blockages do not have them, a new study suggests (Source: WebMD Health)...
POSTED 03/09/2010 at 11:00 PM --
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Low Diagnostic Yield of Elective Coronary Angiography
In this national registry of data on cardiac catheterization, only 38% of elective, diagnostic coronary angiograms showed obstructive lesions, and 39% of angiograms were interpreted as showing no disease. The findings indicate a relatively low diagnostic yield of elective coronary angiography, a procedure that exposes patients to substantial radiation. (Source: New England Journal of Medicine)...
POSTED 03/09/2010 at 06:00 PM --
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Cardiac-Specific Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Receptor Transgenic Expression Protects Against Cardiac Fibrosis and Diastolic Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy.
Conclusions: The current study suggests that cardiac overexpression of IGF-1R prevented diabetes-induced cardiac fibrosis and diastolic dysfunction. Targeting IGF-1R-Akt signaling may represent a therapeutic target for the treatment of diabetic cardiac disease.
PMID: 20215428 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Diabetes)...
POSTED 03/08/2010 at 06:00 PM --
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Avoiding Intelligence Failures in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Strategies for the Safe and Rational Use of Dalteparin or Enoxaparin During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
LMWH approaches in the cath lab can be readily monitored with the point-of-care activated clotting time (ACT) assay. This review explains how and why. The Journal of Invasive Cardiology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)...
POSTED 03/08/2010 at 06:04 AM --
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Journal Scan: Triage After Hospitalization With Advanced Heart Failure: The ESCAPE (Evaluation Study of Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Artery Catheterization Effectiveness) Risk Model and Discharge Score (J Am Coll Cardiol 2010;55:872-878.)
The investigators used data from the ESCAPE (Evaluation Study of Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Artery Catheterization Effectiveness) trial to develop a predictive model, and internally validated their approach by the bootstrapping method. They used model coefficients to generate an additive. . . (Source: Cardiosource)...
POSTED 03/05/2010 at 02:29 AM --
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Trends During 1993-2004 in the Availability and Use of Revascularization After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Markets Affected by Certificate of Need Regulations
This study examines trends in the diffusion of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) during 1993-2004 for patients with acute myocardial infarction in markets with and without Certificate of Need (CON) regulations for open-heart surgery or cardiac catheterization and in markets that repealed CON for either of these procedures. In contrast to prior studies, this study accounts for regional hospital markets that cross state boundaries—often with different CON activities in each state. The overall use of CABG increased modestly throughout the 1990s and subsequently decreased, corresponding to a dramatic increase in PCI. There was a greater rise in the number of CABG programs in markets with significant reduction in CON regulations during 1993-2......
POSTED 03/04/2010 at 05:55 PM --
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Balloon Pulmonary Valvuloplasty, Pulmonary Regurgitation, and Exercise Capacity: The Good, the Bad, and the Not Yet Clear⁎
The modern technique for balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty (BPV) was described in 1982 (). Numerous reports over the past 25+ years have shown that BPV uniformly relieves pulmonary stenosis in patients with the typical isolated pulmonary valve abnormality. The remarkable safety and efficacy of this procedure really opened the door to the development of the specialty of interventional catheterization for congenital heart disease. It has also long been recognized that patients develop some degree of pulmonary regurgitation (PR) after BPV, but the prevalence, degree, and consequences of the pulmonary regurgitation are far less well elucidated. In this issue of the Journal, Harrild et al. () from Boston report some of the most detailed data to date on these issues. (Source: Journal of the Americ......
POSTED 03/04/2010 at 07:56 AM --
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[Forgetting guidewire during central venous catheterization.]
Authors: Belhadj A, Balkhi H, Kechna H, Azendour H, Haimeur C, Drissi Kamili N
PMID: 20206459 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Annales Francaises d'Anesthesie et de Reanimation)...
POSTED 03/02/2010 at 06:00 PM --
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EPIC: Embolic protection decreases risk of stroke in carotid stenting
In patients undergoing carotid artery stenting, use of the FiberNet Embolic Protection System proved 97.5 percent effective and put stroke rate levels below the American Heart Association’s standard of 3 percent following carotid endarterectomy, according to a study published online March 3 in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. (Source: Cardiovascular Business News)...
POSTED 03/02/2010 at 09:23 AM --
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