MedPage Today) — Alain Cribier, MD, who performed the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in 2002, died last week at age 79, the American College of Cardiology announced. Higher lipoprotein(a) went hand in hand with increased…
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Healthy gums are imperative to a healthy mouth, but what about your cardiovascular health? In honor of Heart Month, Dr. Frank Nichols, professor of periodontics at the UConn School of Dental Medicine, unravels the underlying connection between gum health and heart health. What is the link between periodontal (gum) disease and
With improved monitoring and measurement capabilities, we have been better equipped to understand the dynamics of falls, identify trends and implement targeted interventions,” says a nursing leader at the North Carolina health system…
The odds of surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest declines rapidly with longer duration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), new retrospective data showed. Among all comers, the likelihood of survival was less than 10% after 10 minutes, less than 5% after 20 minutes, and less than 1% after 40+ minutes…
Credit: Dr. Xiao Li Pediatric heart transplantation has long been hailed as a life-saving intervention for children suffering from end-stage heart failure. While the procedure offers hope, the long-term outcomes for these young patients remain suboptimal due to allograft rejection and graft failure. In a new study, researchers from The Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College
Feb 13 — Wear Red Canada Day — marks the sixth annual day devoted to raising awareness about women’s heart health…
How can one be environmentally responsible while maintaining sterility in the catheterization laboratory? This is the issue that Estelle Myny, a nurse at Jacques Cartier Hospital in Massy, France, sought to address at the European Days of the French Society of Cardiology. Reducing Waste Weight Angioplasty procedures use costly sterile medical devices with significant environmental
Cities are experimenting with new ways to meet the rapidly increasing demand for behavioral health crisis intervention, at a time when incidents of police shooting and killing people in mental health crisis have become painfully familiar…
If someone has been in cardiac arrest for 10 minutes, the brain is permanently damaged and there’s nothing to do, right? Not so according to emerging evidence that suggests that the brain shows signs of electrical recovery for as long as an hour into ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR…
MedPage Today) — Science is like baseball. To score a run — to convincingly show that a drug or intervention is safe and effective — all the bases have to be rounded. In the case of science, the bases frequently include, in stepwise progression…