Entries by tag "open-heart surgery"

Heart Assist Doesn’t Assist?

  • By Diane Rose on August, 31 2010
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High-risk patients with weakened hearts don’t benefit significantly when a device that keeps blood pumping through the body is used during angioplasty procedures to re-open narrowed coronary arteries. That was the main finding of a study that was published August 25 in...

Are Percutaneous Heart Valves Better Than Surgical Valve Replacement?

  • By Sean McDonnell on August, 08 2010
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For several decades, open-heart surgery has been the gold-standard technique for aortic valve replacement (AVR). Now, a new technique approved in Europe and under investigation in the United States – percutaneous heart valve (PHV) replacement – may prove at least...

How is Apple’s iPad Changing Healthcare?

  • By Sean McDonnell on July, 29 2010
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iPAD sales have exceeded three million since the device’s April 3, 2010, introduction in the United States. Now comes word of ways the iPAD is significantly changing the practice of healthcare.

According to a post on FutureMedica, a blog on “the future of healthcare and...