Sentences with phrase «coronary syndrome»

In particular, when presenting to hospitals with acute coronary syndrome, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples do not receive equivalent care as other Australians.

This review will synthesise the concept of distinct trajectories of depressive symptoms in patients hospitalised with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and summarise the existing literature regarding the number and patterns of these trajectories in this patient cohort.

Anaemia and the development of depressive symptoms following acute coronary syndrome: longitudinal clinical observational study

Centralised depression care according to patient preference is effective for the treatment of depression symptoms following acute coronary syndrome

The study involved a consecutive series of patients admitted to either Bendigo Health or St John of God Bendigo for either an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or acute coronary syndrome (ACS), or for transferal to a metropolitan hospital to undergo coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABGS) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

fund Phase Three of the Lighthouse Hospital Project to improve the treatment of acute coronary syndrome conditions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Acute Coronary Syndrome Committee member responsible for analysis of monthly Cardiac Alert patient data in order to create ongoing process improvement.

Therapeutic areas: Hepatitis B, Acute Coronary Syndrome and Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

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J & J and Bayer recently announced that they plan to start clinical trials to get Xarelto approved for treating other health issues, such as acute coronary syndrome.

According to AHA's scientific statement on pet ownership and cardiovascular risk the beneficial effects of pet ownership include «increased physical activity, favorable lipid profiles, lower systemic blood pressure, improved autonomic tone, diminished sympathetic responses to stress, and improved survival after an acute coronary syndrome.»

• In Pharmaceuticals, major brands and products include Prezista (HIV), Xaralto (acute coronary syndrome), Invega (schizophrenia), Zytiga (prostate cancer), and Invokana (type 2 diabetes).

Blood omega - 3 and trans fatty acids in middle - aged acute coronary syndrome patients.

During this healing time, you should be receiving medications to help your heart heal, to prevent the progression of atherosclerosis, and to prevent another heart attack or other form of acute coronary syndrome.

Research continues to show that eating more fruits and vegetables is associated with lower risk of metabolic disorders including coronary syndrome (low functioning of the heart and arteries), a slower onset of atherosclerosis (arteries getting smaller and harder), and reduced inflammation.

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Elevated fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF - 23) is associated with increased risk of recurrent major cardiovascular (CV) events in patients after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), according to a study published online April 18 in JAMA Cardiology.

â $ œThis benefit was specifically due to the reduced need of urgent revascularization due to acute coronary syndrome, a dramatic event for our patients.â $

(HealthDay)-- Elevated fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF - 23) is associated with increased risk of recurrent major cardiovascular (CV) events in patients after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), according to a study published...

Patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing angioplasty who received the anticoagulant drug bivalirudin did not show significant improvements in either of two co-primary endpoints — a composite of rate of death, heart attack or stroke at 30 days, or a composite of those events plus major bleeding — as compared to patients receiving standard anticoagulation therapy, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

All participants had acute coronary syndrome, a condition that includes the two types of heart attack — ST - elevation myocardial infarction and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction — or unstable angina, a type of severe chest pain that is due to the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries.

Patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiogram, a procedure used to assess blockages in the heart's arteries, had a significantly lower risk of major bleeding and death if their interventional cardiologist accessed the heart through an artery in the arm rather than the groin, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

They measured adherence to statin therapy and outcomes comprising of hospitalization for an acute coronary syndrome, stroke and mortality.

All study participants had acute coronary syndrome, a condition that includes the two types of heart attack — ST - elevation myocardial infarction and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction — or unstable angina, a type of severe chest pain that is due to the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries.

Acute coronary syndrome — an umbrella term the American Heart Association uses to define diseases, such as heart attack or angina, where blood to the heart is blocked — occurred in 4.1 %, 6.6 % and 7.4 % of treated, untreated and uninfected patients.

The twice - daily 90 - mg dose of ticagrelor is already approved for patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Emergency rooms are testing many patients for markers of acute coronary syndrome who show no signs of having suffered a heart attack, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.

All study participants either had an acute coronary syndrome such as a heart attack or unstable angina 30 days to one year before enrolling; had cerebrovascular atherosclerotic disease, in which the arteries that supply blood to the brain become constricted; had peripheral vascular disease, a group of disorders affecting blood vessels outside of the heart and brain; or had both diabetes and coronary artery disease.

Tumor necrosis factor inhibitor drugs (commonly called Anti-TNFs) modestly reduce the risk of acute coronary syndrome, such as heart attacks and angina, in rheumatoid arthritis patients whose inflammation places them at higher risk of developing coronary heart disease, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in San Diego.

«Patients with RA have a doubled or so risk for acute coronary syndrome, and cardiovascular prevention is thus a major task for rheumatologists.»

Researchers in Sweden sought to determine if use of tumor necrosis factor inhibitor drugs to treat RA would result in a reduced risk of acute coronary syndrome (commonly called ACS), defined as a diagnosis of a heart attack or unstable angina (the worsening or increasing cardiac symptoms)

Acute coronary syndrome was defined as any primary discharge diagnosis of heart attack, unstable angina, or heart attack as cause of death from the Patient Register and the Cause - of - Death Register, respectively.

«Type 2 diabetes accompanied by an acute coronary syndrome needs much more attention, especially in order to prevent yet another major cardiac event,» says Principal Investigator Dr. William B. White, a professor in the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center at UConn Health.

The researchers recruited 5,380 patients with type 2 diabetes after the patient had a major but nonfatal acute coronary syndrome such as a heart attack, or hospitalization for unstable angina.

According to CathPCI Registry data, opportunities exist to improve not only adherence to appropriate use criteria in patients without acute coronary syndrome (ACS) but potentially clarify areas of uncertainty.

High - sensitivity assays for cardiac troponin T can quickly and safely rule out myocardial infarction (MI) in patients presenting to emergency departments (ED) with possible emergency acute coronary syndrome.

To find out if complications of pregnancy might be associated with the risk of early coronary heart disease, the researchers compared 153 patients with acute coronary syndrome, which includes heart attack and angina, with the same number of healthy people matched for age and sex.

A new European joint consensus document on the use of antithrombotic drugs, including the non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs), in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) presenting with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and undergoing PCI is published in the European Heart Journal.

Ion S. Jovin, MD, FACC, the study's lead author and medical director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, said that the study's results are consistent with data from contemporary studies of patients with acute coronary syndrome and STEMI.

For the study, the Johns Hopkins team set out to lower the rate at which doctors order cardiac biomarker testing for the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome by basing the desired rate on scientific evidence.

The new guidelines suggest ordering troponin alone, without creatine kinase or creatine kinase - MB, for patients suspected to have acute coronary syndrome.

Troponin orders were removed from all order sets, except two that are used for evaluating new acute coronary syndrome symptoms.

Xarelto also recently earned a designation to prevent clots for people with Acute Coronary Syndrome.

The Xarelto partnership is seeking additional approved uses, with trials underway in patients with acute coronary syndrome, and for reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with heart failure or peripheral artery disease.

Overall, nearly 20 percent of the men and 12 percent of the women who participated in the study developed or died from heart disease, a suite of conditions that includes stroke, coronary heart disease caused by the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries, acute coronary syndromes such as heart attack, and other diseases.

«Major progress has been made in the management of non-ST-segment elevation [a certain pattern on an electrocardiogram] acute coronary syndromes (NSTE - ACS) because of the availability of potent combinations of oral antiplatelet agents, injectable anticoagulants, and increasing use of an invasive strategy.

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.

Expansion in the use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)-- the minimally invasive surgery performed on heart patients instead of using drugs — is seeing more patients with acute coronary syndromes treated more quickly, according to the latest National Audit of PCI (covering 2012).

(8) ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST - segment elevation.

Prediction of short - and long - term outcomes by troponin T levels in low - risk patients evaluated for acute coronary syndromes