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Sunshine Heart Inc (SSH): Sunshine Heart’s Pulse System Could Revolutionize …
Seeking Alpha With regards to heart failure, significant developments date back to the first implantable pacemaker successfully inserted into a patient in 1958. Shortly after, these devices improved and were being used all over the world. Recently, doctors have … |
TelemanagementSpecialized care improves outlook in heart failureTelemanagementThey looked at data for almost 39.000 Canadian patients with first-time hospitalization for heart failure. Of these, 14 per cent were treated during their stay by a cardiolog…
BBC NewsFirst UK trial of heart failure operationBBC NewsA pioneering operation to improve the function of failing hearts while they are still beating has taken place in the UK for the first time. Patients with heart failure struggle to pump blood arou…
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Identifying high risk heart failure cases
Telemanagement Heart failure is known to have a poor prognosis, with a mortality rate at one year of 35 to 40 per cent. According to researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada, it’s possible to estimate a patient’s prognosis from information given at hospital … |
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Widow of Yugoslavia’s ex-dictator Josip Broz Tito dies of heart failure
Straits Times Madam Broz, who was married to Tito for nearly 30 years, died in a hospital on Sunday of heart failure, said Dr Zlatibor Loncar, head of Belgrade’s emergency hospital. She had been hospitalised since late August. Tito, whose partisan guerrilla fighters … Tito’s widow dies in Serbia aged 88GlobalPost |
Gene involved in heart failureTelemanagementIt is a major cause of heart failure, and often affects quite young people. Researchers at the University of Toronto have been looking into the genetic causes of dilated cardiomyopathy. They have found that a…
Study reveals a better approach to heart failure treatmentTelemanagementDigoxin is a well established drug for the treatment of heart failure. The problem is that there is only a narrow margin between a therapeutic and a dangerous dose of the medicatio…
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Sulu Sultan Kiram, 75, dies of organ failure
Inquirer.net MANILA, Philippines – Sultan Jamalul Kiram III died on Sunday, his daughter told Radyo Inquirer 990AM. Princess Jacel Kiram said the 75-year old heir of the Sulu sultanate died of multiple organ failure at the Philippine Heart Center at 4:42 a.m. on … Sultan Kiram, 75, dies due to organ failure, says daughter JacelGMA News Self-styled Sulu Sultan dies of multiple organ failureThe Star Online Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III diesRappler InterAksyon –New Straits Times –Bangkok Post all 14 news articles » |
MRI-compatible pacemaker offers hope for patients with risk of heart failureTimes of IndiaYoung people who have suffered a heart attack are also at a greater risk of developing heart failure within a few years. So the number of people requiring a pacem…
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Diclofenac, tenofovir combination may increase acute kidney injury risk
Healio BRUSSELS — Drug-to-drug interaction caused by diclofenac could increase tenofovir-associated nephrotoxicity and should be prescribed with caution for patients receiving tenofovir disoproxil fumarate therapy, according to a presenter here at EACS 2013. |