Latest Coronary catheterization Stories

A highly detailed CT scan of the heart can safely and quickly rule out the possibility of a heart attack among many patients who come to hospital emergency rooms with chest pain, according to the results of a study that will be presented by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania today at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session and published concurrently in the New England Journal of Medicine. The multicenter randomized...

NATICK, Mass. and CHICAGO, March 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announces two-year follow-up data from the pivotal PLATINUM Workhorse trial comparing the safety and effectiveness of the PROMUS Element(TM) Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium (PtCr) Coronary Stent System to the PROMUS® (Xience V®) Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System. The outcomes reported at 12 months for the PROMUS Element Stent and the PROMUS (Xience V) Stent...

In a first-of-its-kind study in Canada, Kevin Bainey of the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry has discovered that South Asians who live in Alberta with coronary disease experience a lower quality of life. This adds to prior data that this group lives with more severe disease. Using the APPROACH registry, which captures information about all patients who undergo a coronary angiogram in Alberta, the research team analyzed data about quality of life and health status of this population....

Beaumont-led research may reduce unnecessary procedures and cost. Royal Oak, Mich. (PRWEB) February 09, 2012 An important research study, led by Beaumont Health System cardiologists and involving 47 hospitals and outpatient centers in Michigan, may help spare patients from unnecessary invasive heart procedures while lowering health care costs. The research, published in the Feb. 14 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found that coronary computed tomography...

NATICK, Mass., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announces first patient use and European market launch of the PROMUS Element(TM) Plus Everolimus-Eluting Platinum Chromium Coronary Stent System. The first patient implant in Europe using the new device was performed by Professor Antonio Colombo, M.D., Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Columbus Hospital and San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy. The new stent system...

New generation drug-eluting stents associated with lower rates of mortality and restenosis than bare metal stents A registry -which includes every patient in Sweden having percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for the treatment of acute and stable coronary artery disease- has found that PCI implantations using a new generation of drug-eluting stents is associated with lower rates of relapse (restenosis), stent thrombosis and subsequent mortality than older generation drug-eluting stents...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center is the first hospital in Arizona to perform a new nonsurgical heart valve replacement procedure, the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR). TAVR valves are inserted via a catheter through the femoral artery, without requiring open heart surgery. "This procedure was like winning the lottery and I feel great," said 84-year-old William Ruser. The Scottsdale resident underwent the...

Physician preferences and hospital characteristics influence the type of procedures performed on blockages of the heart, leading to significant variations in rates of bypass, stent or angioplasty procedures, found an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). There is significant variation in the ratio of percutaneous coronary interventions to coronary artery bypass graft surgeries (PCI:CABG ratio). Both procedures are performed to address blockages of coronary arteries. PCI...

A new method for measuring narrowing in the arteries of the heart may allow patients to be assessed for a stent without having to take a drug with unpleasant side effects. In England, it is estimated that one in seven men and one in 12 women over the age of 65 experience chest pain called angina caused by narrowing of the arteries in the heart. Around 60,000 such patients a year are fitted with a coronary stent – a wire mesh tube that acts as a scaffold to keep open arteries that risk...