Sentences with phrase «smallest infarct»
Over all, the combination of ultrasound / microbubbles and a low dose of tPA resulted in the most significant preservation of healthy heart tissue and the smallest infarct size.
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The results showed patients who received metoprolol had much smaller infarcts than those who received the control treatment, and that this smaller infarct size was linked to greater heart contractility.
The success of the treatment was determined by several measures: infarct size (a smaller infarct means less muscle death; wall thickening (a thicker heart wall during contraction indicates the preservation of healthy functioning heart muscle); and recanalization rates, which is a measure of restoration of blood flow to the heart.
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According to a new study, high long - chain omega - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid content in blood may lower the risk of small brain infarcts and other brain abnormalities in the elderly.
In the Cardiovascular Health Study in the USA, 3,660 people aged 65 and older underwent brain scans to detect so called silent brain infarcts, or small lesions in the brain that can cause loss of thinking skills, dementia and stroke.
Features seen on neuroimaging include recent small subcortical infarcts, lacunes, white matter hyperintensities, perivascular