Topic: Germany
Medicare publicly reports each hospital's death and readmission rates for patients with several conditions. At the recent American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, two studies of patients with heart failure provided a striking negative verdict on remote monitoring. First, a study from ...
Medicare publicly reports each hospital's death and readmission rates for patients with several conditions. At the recent American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, two studies of patients with heart failure provided a striking negative verdict on remote monitoring. First, a study from ...
Papaverine (Papaverine - EverydayHealth.com ) is an opium alkaloid used primarily in the treatment of visceral spasm , vasospasm (especially those involving the heart and the brain ), and occasionally in the treatment of erectile dysfunction . Papaverine may also be used ...
When the Harvard Cardiovascular Health Center and other cardiac rehabilitation programs began prescribing exercise for heart patients in the 1970s, the idea seemed radical, even dangerous. According to a 2005 scientific statement of the American Heart Association, cardiac rehabilitation programs experience only ...
In 2007, Marva Lorde of Mississauga, Ontario, suffered a heart attack that resulted in 10 days in the intensive care unit, angioplasty, and pacemaker implantation, only to be followed by another cardiac arrest in 2008. The device, called DuraHeart by Terumo Heart, ...
A new heart pump is being studied in the United States. Commonly known as an "artificial heart" the new pump, called The Berlin Heart, is not commonly available but is being used in some heart transplant patients who would not otherwise survive ...
9/14/2010 Print E-mail Genetic differences may explain why enlarged hearts shrink faster in women than in men following aortic valve replacement, say researchers.. The German researchers said their study of 53 female (average age 72) and 39 male (average age 67) patients ...
Genetic differences may explain why enlarged hearts shrink faster in women than in men following aortic valve replacement, say researchers. The German researchers said their study of 53 female (average age 72) and 39 male (average age 67) patients found that heart ...
Transapical aortic valve implantation is associated with favorable outcomes and may be a reasonable choice for treating high-risk patients with severe valve stenosis, according to research published in the Aug. 31 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.. Miralem ...
Persistent depression after a heart attack is associated with changes in the brain, a new study has found.. But more research is needed to determine whether depression causes these changes or vice versa, said the German study authors.. The study included 22 ...