Zednick stable after carotid artery cut
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Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik lost five units of blood, but doctors never considered his life in jeopardy after the player had his carotid artery nearly severed by a teammate's skate in a freak and frightening accident.
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BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The Merci Retriever, a tiny corkscrew threaded through an artery to remove the clot and restore blood flow, produced by Mountain View, Calif.-based Concentric Medical, has been approved by US government.
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Might reduce number of bypass surgeries, study says    HealthDayNews -- A new technique that uses infrared light and radiofrequency energy to clear blocked arteries may reduce the number of patients who need bypass surgery, says a Dutch study in the October issue of the journal Cardiovascular Interventions.    The study found this guidewire system can navigate blocked coronary arteries, burn through dense scar tissue and reestablish blood flow through severely obstructed arteries...
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Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik's health is continuing to improve after his neck was slashed by a team mate's skate.
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With little time left before his organs would likely fail, Marine Lance Cpl. Chris LeBleu was in surgery Sunday to receive a new liver for a mysterious ailment doctors said would kill him if he didn't get a transplant.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A hospital spokeswoman said a baby cut from her mother&#39;s body is &quot;in remarkably good condition&quot; after the ordeal.
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NAPLES, Fla. - A blow to the head with a beer bottle may have saved Sally Hampton's life. While doctors were examining her after the barroom attack, they discovered a brain tumor that could have killed her.  The tumor was removed, and Hampton, 64, is fully recovered.
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Nov. 8, 2004 -- Stents cut a patient&#39;s risk of having a repeat balloon angioplasty to clear a clogged artery. But patients who get stents don&#39;t survive any longer than those who don&#39;t get them.
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Bypass surgery remains the best option for heart patients with more than one clogged artery, according to the first big study to compare bypass with drug-coated stents. The new research dims hopes that the less drastic stent procedure would prove to be just as good for people with multiple blockages.
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LONDON - German surgeons say they have managed to repair severe damage to a seven-year-old girl&#39;s skull using stem cells taken from her fat tissue.
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A 17-year-old girl who survived eight days after her car crashed and tumbled 200 feet down a ravine may have been saved by her own dehydration, which prevented the expansion of a blood clot in her brain, doctors said.
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hospital, and his doctors say he would have risked a &quot;substantial&quot; heart attack without the operation. an operation, Chief of Cardiology Allan Schwartz of New York-Presbyterian Hospital told a news conference on Monday.
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Most days are good, some not for a woman who is recovering from what has been called "internal decapitation." Shannon Malloy suffered "atlantooccipital dislocation" &#151; that's what doctors call it. The force of her head hitting a car dashboard separated her skull from her spine.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson's neck stent is as effective as surgery in clearing blocked blood vessels to the brain that can cause strokes and death, according to a company-funded study in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine.
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A new era in stroke prevention gained momentum Tuesday with government approval of a new treatment that clears blocked arteries supplying the brain without major surgery.
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Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was in stable condition Friday following a procedure to unblock a coronary artery, his office said.
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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - A four-day-old girl who was cut from her mother&#39;s womb is doing well according to hospital officials in Topeka, Kansas.