Sentences with phrase «interventional cardiologist»

«We saw an impressive reduction in bleeding with bivalirudin compared to the control, which likely contributed to the reduced mortality in this group,» said Marco Valgimigli, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of cardiology and senior interventional cardiologist at the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands and the study's lead author.

The paper emphasizes the need for a multi-disciplinary team approach, involving both surgeons and interventional cardiologists with extensive knowledge and diagnostic skills related to valvular disease.

«This study shows that interventional cardiologists who are experienced with the radial approach have nothing to lose and everything to gain by using the arm as the access point for these procedures,» Valgimigli said.

The device used, Google Glass, consists of a wearable, hands - free computer with an optical head - mounted display worn by interventional cardiologists in the catheterization laboratory.

In the darkened room, physicians and nurses gaze up intently at glowing monitors as interventional cardiologist Emerson Perin injects stem cells into Pavelko's weakened heart.

«I believe the evidence from our study should compel a switch to the radial approach as the preferred method,» said Marco Valgimigli, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of cardiology and senior interventional cardiologist at the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands and the study's lead author.

The approach is more common in Europe, where interventional cardiologists use the arm roughly half of the time or more.

Drug - coated balloons are a relatively new product, and are being developed to help interventional cardiologists treat arteries that are difficult to target with traditional angioplasty and stent treatments.

A committee comprised of cardiac surgeons and interventional cardiologists developed the recommendations in response to the changing landscape of treatment for valve disease.

The document released today offers first - time guidance from four professional medical associations on developing and maintaining a transcatheter mitral valve therapy program, emphasizing collaboration between interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.

U.S. interventional cardiologists currently use the arm for catheter - based heart procedures in less than 15 percent of cases.

«I hope that a new generation of interventional cardiologists will be specifically trained in the radial approach and that more medical centers will build up their expertise in this procedure.»

In a key departure from its predecessors, the MATRIX trial allowed interventional cardiologists to decide whether to give glycoprotein IIb / IIIa inhibitors as a complement to unfractionated heparin in control patients, whereas previous studies either required or forbade the use of these drugs.

Interventional cardiologists perform the county's first FDA - approved carotid stent to prevent stroke.

I ate dinner last night with another plant - based interventional cardiologist (triathlete Heather Shenkman, MD) at Vinh Loi Tofu in California and had...

Summer Blue Crabby Pizza This heart - healthy recipe comes from Michael Fenster, MD, who not only is an amazing chef, but is also is a Board Certified Interventional Cardiologist.

Henry Fenton successfully defended a prominent interventional cardiologist against claims of unprofessional conduct, gross negligence, repeated acts of negligence and...

Beatt v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 401 Harini won in the Court of Appeal, having represented Dr Beatt (the consultant interventional cardiologist) in the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

«The ACURATE family of valve products is strongly complementary to our cornerstone Lotus ™ valve *** platform, and this compelling combination of technologies will allow us to provide interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons with multiple TAVI offerings for varying patient pathologies and anatomy.»

«We also find that patients at high - volume hospitals benefit the most from early stenting treatments by interventional cardiologists,» says co-author Jessica Van Parys, Ph.D. of Hunter College.

Dr. Venkatesh Raman, an interventional cardiologist at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, agrees.

Yet another project could have medical applications, as it's led by an interventional cardiologist from Stanford with expertise in early - stage medical device development.

So what: Interventional cardiologists are increasingly relying on Abiomed's medical devices to boost patient blood circulation before, during, and after catheterization lab procedures, and in 2015, the FDA approval of its devices in additional high - risk heart procedures sent revenue zipping 47 % higher to $ 76 million last quarter.

Freddy Abnousi, an interventional cardiologist, led the medical - related project.

«Interventional cardiologists should be especially suspicious of coronary artery spasm when they encounter a patient under the age of 60 with disease isolated to a single vessel.

«Among hospitalised patients, those admitted to an intensive care unit are more likely to develop delirium and there are strategies to limit its consequences,» said lead author Dr Giovanni Falsini, interventional cardiologist, San Donato Hospital, Arezzo, Italy.

«We initially thought that emergency department physicians would risk stratify patients such that those with more medical and cardiac comorbidities would receive more physician follow - up care,» writes Dr. Dennis Ko, a senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and an interventional cardiologist at the Schulich Heart Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, with coauthors.

Robert Lederman, M.D., an interventional cardiologist and senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health who developed the technique in pigs, came to Detroit to observe the procedure and share his insights.

«The system means patients with aortic valve disease who are considered high risk for surgery, now have a new option,» said Deepak Vivek, MD, interventional cardiologist and director, Orlando Health Heart Institute Valve Center.

The interventional cardiologist weaves an electrified wire the size of a sewing thread through a catheter and uses it to split the original leaflet in two so that it can not block the coronary artery once it has been pushed aside by the transcatheter heart valve.

Interventional cardiologists have typically favored catheter access through the groin because it involves a larger artery that is less prone to spasm, an event that can limit the ability to move medical equipment through the catheter.

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.

During a coronary angiogram — performed in more than 1 million people in the United States each year — an interventional cardiologist examines the heart's arteries using miniscule medical equipment threaded to the heart through a catheter placed in an artery in the groin or arm.

Dib is an interventional cardiologist whose research focuses on the potential of using adult stem cells, obtained from the patient's own muscle, bone marrow or blood, to treat heart disease.

The researchers then paired those models with the same type and size prosthetic valves that interventional cardiologists had used during each patient's valve replacement procedure.

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«Caffeine is a stimulant,» says Brian Kolski, MD, an interventional cardiologist with St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, California.

I am an interventional cardiologist and admit to placing thousands and thousands of stents in heart arteries.

My work as an interventional cardiologist over the last 23 years has been rewarding and challenging, and in that time, I've carved out a commitment to...

I am an interventional cardiologist who teaches preventive approaches as the first line for most patients, so the combo was a natural.

It's a bit self - critical: I am an interventional cardiologist who places heart stents.

If the area over the chest is affected, someone might mistake this new pain for a heart attack or other cardiac issue, says Salman Arain, MD, an interventional cardiologist with McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute - Texas Medical Center.

The exploratory effort to share medical - related data was led by an interventional cardiologist called Freddy Abnousi, who describes his role on LinkedIn as «leading top - secret projects.»

Established a successful cardiology group practice presently consisting of one interventional cardiologist, one clinical cardiac electrophysiologist, and two non-invasive clinical cardiologists.

11 years as physician with a PhD as a Cardiologist with expertise in both invasive and non-invasive treatment for first the first 5 years and is now almost purely working as a interventional cardiologist Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and German

Results - oriented, hands - on large clinical trial experience in cardiovascular devices and medications; one and half year Chief Medical Officer in an International hospital in China, more than ten years invasive / interventional cardiologist and five years Director of Coronary Care Unit (CCU) in one of the first - class hospitals in China; more than ten years preclinical research experience in the field of cardiovascular disease...