Sentences with phrase «acute myocardial infarction at»

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In the U.S., one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to a hospital each year at an estimated cost of $ 17.5 billion annually.i To reduce this impact, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has introduced hospital penalties based on readmissions conditions that commonly affect patients aged 65 and older — including acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia.i

This study assessed the association of antidepressant prescription at hospital discharge with the one - year outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).

OBTAIN (Outcomes of Beta - Blocker Therapy After Myocardial Infarction) is an observational multicenter registry in which beta - blocker dosing information was collected in patients with an acute heart attack at participating centers to assess the effect of dose on survival.

Psychiatric illness was already known to be highly comorbid — existing at the same time as another medical condition — with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and pneumonia.

The patients were enrolled in a major study known as TRIUMPH (Translational Research Investigating Underlying disparities in acute Myocardial infarction Patients» Health) conducted from 2005 to 2008 at 24 U.S. hospitals, including Barnes - Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

The study, led by Yadong Wang, the William Kepler Whiteford Professor in Bioengineering in the Swanson School of Engineering and the principal investigator of the Biomaterials Foundry at Pitt, found that a single administration of extracellular matrices (ECM) from zebrafish hearts restored the function of the heart and regenerated adult mouse heart tissues after acute myocardial infarction.

The researchers analyzed data on more than 69,000 black and white patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treated at 253 hospitals in three states during 2006 - 07.

Encapsulation allows for diffusion of pro-angiogenic cytokines and growth factors made by the hMSCs while maintaining them at the site of implantationâ $ ¦ Alginate encapsulated hMSCs attached to the heart with a hydrogel patch resulted in a highly significant improvement in left ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction.