Penile-Artery Angioplasty Gets Second Look for EDPenile-Artery Angioplasty Gets Second Look for ED
A small pilot trial is picking up where the ZEN trial of drug-eluting stents for ED left off, this time trying plain-old balloon angioplasty in the penile arteries. Heartwire (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Intact Vascular Announces Completion Of Enrollment Of The Tack Optimized Balloon Angioplasty (TOBA) Study
Intact Vascular, Inc., a developer of medical devices for minimally invasive peripheral vascular procedures, recently announced the completion of enrollment of the Tack Optimized Balloon Angioplasty (TOBA) study. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - October 4, 2013 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news
Heart attack death rates unchanged in spite of faster care at hospitals
Heart attack deaths have remained the same, even as hospital teams have gotten faster at treating heart attack patients with emergency angioplasty, according to a study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine. Hospitals across the country have successfully raced to reduce so-called door-to-balloon time, the time it takes patients arriving at hospitals suffering from a heart attack to be treated with angioplasty, to 90 minutes or less in the belief that it would save heart muscle and lives... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Shorter waits for angioplasty do not lower death rates, study says
The average 'door-to-balloon' time for heart attack patients has dropped by 20%, but that has not translated into better survival rates, cardiologists say.An intense nationwide push to speed hospital treatment for heart attack patients has been a success, cutting by 20% the average time people waited before getting their clogged arteries opened between 2005 and 2009. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - September 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Shorter waits for angioplasty do not lower death rates, study says
The average 'door-to-balloon' time for heart attack patients has dropped by 20%, but that has not translated into better survival rates, cardiologists say.An intense nationwide push to speed hospital treatment for heart attack patients has been a success, cutting by 20% the average time people waited before getting their clogged arteries opened between 2005 and 2009. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - September 5, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Vascular Connexins in Restenosis After Balloon Injury
Atherosclerosis is an arterial progressive disease characterized by accumulation of lipids, macrophages, T lymphocytes, and smooth muscle cells in large- and medium-sized arteries. Erosion and rupture of the atherosclerotic plaque may induce myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accidents that are responsible for a large percentage of sudden death. Atherosclerosis is often treated by angioplasty generally followed by stent implantation. Although angioplasty and stent implantation are necessary for the survival of the patient, they induce a trauma in the vessel wall that favors a vascular reaction called restenosis and ...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Molecular Medicine - September 4, 2013 Category: Molecular Biology Source Type: news
Anticoagulant otamixaban does not reduce rate of ischemic events among certain patients undergoing PCI
Use of the novel anticoagulant otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study published by JAMA... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Surgery Source Type: news
Anticoagulant does not reduce rate of ischemic events among certain patients undergoing PCI
(The JAMA Network Journals) Use of the novel anticoagulant otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study published by JAMA. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Medtronic's Drug-Eluting Balloon Data for Peripheral Angioplasty Submitted to FDA
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced on Thursday that it had submitted its first pre-market approval (PMA) module to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the IN.PACT Admiral drug-eluting balloon (DEB), to be used in the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in the superficial femoral artery. Medtronic reports that with submission of this data, it is on track to gain FDA approval in two years, which would make it the first drug-eluting balloon available in the U.S. for use in the treatment of peripheral disease. (Source: News from Angioplasty.Org)
Source: News from Angioplasty.Org - August 19, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Quitting smoking post-angioplasty tied to longer life
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who quit smoking after a balloon angioplasty to improve blood flow to the heart live an average of two years longer than those who keep smoking, a new study suggests. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Quitting Smoking Post-Angioplasty Tied to Longer Life
People who quit smoking after a balloon angioplasty to improve blood flow to the heart live an average of two years longer than those who keep smoking, a new study suggests.Source: Reuters Health
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Source: MedlinePlus Health News - August 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Following Coronary Stent Implantation Is Associated With Improved Outcomes
Emmanouil S. Brilakis, M.D., Ph.D., of the VA North Texas Health Care System and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and colleagues conducted a review of medical literature regarding optimal medical therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries). The researchers identified 91 studies for inclusion in the review... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Drug-Eluting Balloon One Step Closer to FDA Submission as Medtronic Completes Enrollment for IN.PACT Study
Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced today that its IN.PACT drug-eluting balloon clinical program had reached the enrollment needed to support submission to the FDA for approval to use this novel device in the treatment of peripheral disease, specifically blockages in the superficial femoral artery. Although the IN.PACT family of drug-eluting balloons (DEB) have been available in Europe for over four years, no drug-eluting balloons have been approved for use in the United States. (Source: News from Angioplasty.Org)
Source: News from Angioplasty.Org - June 4, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Drug-coated Balloons May Provide New Method To Open Clogged Arteries
A new treatment method that combines the advantages of angioplasty balloons and drug-releasing stents, and offers fewer risks, has been examined as a way to open clogged arteries. The study, led my MIT researchers and published in the journal Circulation, outlines the new approach where a balloon is inflated in the artery for just a short period where it releases a drug that stops cells from building up and clogging the arteries over time... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Ballooning After Carotid Stenting Not Best Choice? (CME/CE)
ORLANDO (MedPage Today) -- Balloon angioplasty after deployment of a carotid stent may increase stroke risk, a retrospective analysis of the CREST trial showed. (Source: MedPage Today Meeting Coverage)
Source: MedPage Today Meeting Coverage - May 10, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
