Researchers Find New Defensive Mechanism Against Bacterial Wound Infections
Wound inflammation which results in impaired wound healing can have serious consequences for patients. According to researchers from Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin (C-UB), a new defensive mechanism has been discovered to enable our skin to actively kill bacteria. Central to …
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Study Takes a Look at Contemporary Use of Hybrid Revascularization
Yesterday researchers noted that Hybrid revascularization, combining percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), for the treatment of multivessel coronary artery disease, is used infrequently. According to findings published in the American Heart Journal, a new analysis, …
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Researchers See Worrying Decline in Medication Use After Cardiac Surgery
At the combined ESC Congress 2019 and World Congress at Cardiology, held in Paris, France, late breaking results, from data gleaned from analyzing the SWEDHEART registry, were presented in a Hot Line Session. The research findings reveal that preventive medications …
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Study Finds Risk of Heart Valve Infections Increase in Hospitals
Rutgers University (RU) researchers report that people with heart disease or defective or artificial heart valves are at increased risk of developing a potentially deadly valve infection. Research findings reveal that new risk factors for this medical condition have been …
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Additional heart artery stenting Helps to Prevent future heart attacks
University of Sheffield (UoS) researchers say that patients who have had emergency heart attack treatment with heart artery stenting—and have significant narrowings in their other untreated arteries—can benefit from additional stenting to help prevent future heart attacks. Over 700 UK …
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Greater Treatment Options for AVS Patients with a Lower Surgical Risk of Major Complications
Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that protects the public health, approved an expanded indication for several transcatheter heart valves to include patients with severe aortic valve stenosis (Sapien …
Defibrillator’s Location, Availability When Needed, May Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes
Location, Location, Location. This quote is often tied to real estate. But a newly released study ties both location and availability of time of need to surviving cardiac arrest. Researchers note that Automated External Defibrillators (AED) are often placed in …
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