Sentences with phrase «new angioplasty»

Mazur still effected by Dermato - Myositis and undergoes a new angioplasty procedure.

The early termination was due to slow enrollment, thought to be a consequence of the rapid spread and increased appeal of a new angioplasty technique called fractional flow reserve during the later part of the study enrollment period.

Not exact matches

Despite the advent of a new generation of stents, patients with multiple narrowed arteries in the heart who received coronary artery bypass grafting fared better than those whose arteries were opened with balloon angioplasty and stents in a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

The study, called the Bypass Surgery Versus Everolimus - Eluting Stent Implantation for Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease (BEST) trial, is one of only two randomized controlled trials to compare bypass to angioplasty since the introduction of everolimus - eluting stents, a new generation of drug - eluting stent.

In the new study, patients receiving angioplasty with the new stents had a 47 percent higher risk of one of the outcomes identified as a primary endpoint in the study: death, heart attack and subsequent procedure to clear blocked arteries, as compared to patients who received bypass.

Women who have a cardiac arrest are less likely than men to receive potentially life - saving procedures such as angiography to look for blocked coronary arteries or angioplasty to open them, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association.

The paper also reflects the diminished role of aspirin in AF stroke prevention guidelines, various improvements in angioplasty / stent technology, and the results of new randomised trials including WOEST.

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.

In addition, the new trial randomized patients to receive their angioplasty via a catheter inserted in an artery in either the arm or the groin, thus accounting for the potential effects different catheter access points may have had on the results of previous studies.

Quitting smoking when you have an angioplasty can help maximize the procedure's benefits, meaning better quality of life and more relief from your chest pain, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions.

He believes that, based on the new findings, even milder, non-STEMI heart attacks may warrant angioplasty, stenting or bypass.

In 2005 doctors performed about 280,000 bypass surgeries to route new vessels around blocked arteries and 800,000 angioplasties to open blocked arteries.

In January, after coronary catheterization reveals heart disease, undergoes ballon angioplasty procedure; during the summer months, collaborates with Townsend and guest artists Eric Avery, Sue Coe, Sam Messer, and Joan Snyder at the New Provincetown Print Project; the resulting portfolio is published to jointly benefit the Fine Arts Work Center and the Provincetown AIDS Support Group; joins U.F.O. Gallery in Provincetown; granddaughter Rebecca is born to son Daniel and his wife Susan Chasen.

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