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Fewer Adverse Events With 'Double Kissing' Crush Stent Than Culotte
March 11, 2013 — Patients with a type of coronary lesion linked with poor prognosis fared significantly better with the stent technique known as double kissing crush than with culotte stenting, according to new ... > full story -
New Biolimus Stent Equal to Everolimus Stent at One Year
March 11, 2013 — In a match-up of Japan's top drug-releasing stent and a new device featuring a biodegradable coating, the newcomer delivered statistically comparable one-year results, according to new ... > full story -
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Encouraging Early Results for Redesigned Sapien Valve
March 11, 2013 — The new Sapien XT aortic valve showed a non-significantly lower rate of death and strokes at 30 days than the original model, and both valves demonstrated notably better short-term outcomes than seen ... > full story -
Drug Protects Against Kidney Injury from Imaging Dye in ACS Patients
March 11, 2013 — High doses of a popular cholesterol-lowering drug significantly reduced the rate of acute kidney injury caused by dye used in imaging in acute coronary syndrome patients who underwent a coronary ... > full story -
Mummy CT Scans Show Preindustrial Hunter Gatherers Had Clogged Arteries
March 11, 2013 — Like nearly 4.6 million Americans, ancient hunter-gatherers also suffered from clogged arteries, revealing that the plaque build-up causing blood clots, heart attacks and strokes is not just a result ... > full story -
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Robots to Get Stroke Patients Back on Their Feet
March 11, 2013 — Strokes are the most common cause of physical disability among the elderly. This often result in paralysis of one side of the body, and many patients suffer much reduced physical mobility and are ... > full story -
Length of DNA Strands Can Predict Life Expectancy
March 10, 2013 — Can the length of strands of DNA in patients with heart disease predict their life expectancy? Researchers who studied the DNA of more than 3,500 patients with heart disease say yes it ... > full story -
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Coronary Artery Disease: Hybrid Revascularization Has Similar Rate of Adverse Events as Stenting, Study Suggests
March 10, 2013 — The first multicenter study of hybrid revascularization shows that the emerging procedure for treating coronary artery disease has a similar rate of major adverse events in the first year, compared ... > full story -
New Research Shows That While Niacin Added to Statin Therapy Increases HDL Cholesterol Levels It Does Not Improve HDL Functionality
March 10, 2013 — While two large clinical trials recently showed that adding niacin to statin therapy failed to improve clinical outcomes despite a significant increase in HDL-C levels, little is known about exactly ... > full story -
A New Drug Reduces Heart Damage, Study Suggests
March 10, 2013 — A single dose of an investigational anti-inflammatory drug called inclacumab considerably reduces damage to heart muscle during angioplasty (the opening of a blocked artery), according to a recent ... > full story
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