Copenhagen, March 16, 2012: Stroke survivors who love art have a significantly higher quality of life than those who do not, according to new research. Patients who have enjoyed the music, painting and theater recovered most of their stroke than patients who did not. The research was presented at the annual spring meeting on cardiovascular nursing 12, March 16-17, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Stroke is the third ...

Meghana Gadgil from the division of the General Internal Medicine from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine  have presented some evidence concerning the advantage to eat Mediterranean food with unsaturated fat contained in the olive oil, avocados, fish or nuts instead of pasta or white bread.   It is recommended according to the research presented that the Mediterranean diet contributes to minimi ...

In coromio today. For the first time a randomized trail called FAST was comparing the safety and efficacy of catheter ablation in comparison to surgical ablation. The trial involved 124 patients with atrial fibrillation and that were refractory to antiarrhythmic drugs. The study evaluated two different ways to treat the patient.  The patient to be included in the study should have hypertension with left atr ...

A study STACCATO was performed to  compare transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation in comparaison to surgical aortic valve replacement on elderly patients. The study was made on 70 instead of 200 patients plan due to safety situation.  The primary end point was made of death, renal failure at 30 days and stroke.   The primary end point in the transapical TAVI arm results was one non-treatment  r ...

It was presented during the TCT conference the results of the Cohort A of the PARTNER trial in which the study achieved the primary end points at one year. The conclusing idincates that trascatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is cost effective and improves the quality of patient life for those with severe aortic stenosis who had a transfemoral intervention.  On the hand when transapical procedure was ...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) reduce improves patient survival rate according to PARTNER trial cohort B results presented during the last TCT congress in 2011. The study was a pivotal with patient that can’t be operated due to severe aortic stenosis and which have been treat with Sapien transcatheter aortic valve. The study demonstrates on two year period that TAVI procedure indicates a mor ...

ST elavation acute coronary syndrome patients will have a greater therapy outcome when treat via radial access in comparison to femoral approach. These are the conclusions of a randomized study made between 2009 and 2011 in Italy  in four centers enrolling 1.001 STEMI patients.  Patients with acute acute coronary syndrome have a high mortality potential when associated with bleeding complications.  Neverthe ...

The use of drug eluting balloon will moderate scar artery tissue when in-stent restenosis patient case. In fact the balloon coating is biodegradable and will disintegrates within one day. The study was made on 26 women and 58 mens between 2009 and 2010 who were revascularized with a drug-eluting balloon. The drug used was pactlitaxed. This technic proved that that lession remained open at 93.4% after six to ...

FFR (Fractional Flow Reserve) and iFR (Instantaneous Wave- Free Ratio) are knowned  technolgies used to mesure the patient stenosis. Recent investigation indicates that results achieved by iFR has better results when compared to FFR since it is a cut down on time, cost, operation complexity of the procedure. Moreover it will eliminate the use of adenosine to stimulate hyperaemia indicates the results presen ...

Stents are used during a coronary angioplasty operation. The operation helps to relieve blockages or narrowing of arteries. ...