Doctors Praise New 'Heart Stocking'
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Experts say the new experimental fabric device that helps weak hearts pump more efficiently could fill a gap for people who are not helped by drugs or pacemakers.
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The latest advance in heart failure treatment is a kind of support hose for the heart, an elastic mesh sleeve that squeezes enlarged hearts into a more normal
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More patients are getting life-saving drugs quickly after a heart attack, according to a national survey.
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Clinicians claim that a new approach to tackling heart disease could save thousands of lives in Scotland.
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A novel wireless EKG monitor could make diagnosing heart conditions much easier.
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Frailer heart patients could benefit from an advance in keyhole surgery carried out for the first time in the UK.
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Treating heart-attack patients without losing any time and with a more aggressive regimen of cholesterol-lowering medicines can save many lives, shows new research.
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Stent makers and cardiologists said reports at this yearâs major meeting of European cardiologists bolstered their confidence in the safety of the newer drug-coated versions of the devices.
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Pulsing transplanted heart cells  with electrical current helps them grow into mature cardiac  cells, bringing doctors closer to a grow-your-own heart patch,  U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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A novel fabric mesh sleeve that works like a girdle to reshape enlarged hearts showed promise in treating patients with heart failure and will be submitted for U.S. regulatory approval this year, according to researchers and the company that makes the device.
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Doctors try to balance a patient's trust with new technology.
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A mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size.
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The sickest heart patients fare better when they are outfitted with an artificial device and tethered to a dishwasher-size power source while waiting for a heart transplant, says a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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The CardioWest artificial heart developed at University Medical Center is &quot;a triumph of medical technology&quot; that saves the lives of patients dying from heart disease, a leading medical journal is reporting today.
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An experimental mesh jacket that fits snugly around enlarged, inefficiently pumping hearts could help as many as 1.25 million Americans who suffer from this complication of heart failure each year, a Houston cardiologist said Sunday in New Orleans.
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Millions of chest pain and heart attack sufferers thought they were getting a phenomenal medical advance when tiny coils that ooze medicine were placed in their arteries to keep them from squeezing shut again.
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A novel fabric mesh sleeve that  works like a girdle to reshape enlarged hearts showed promise  in treating patients with heart failure and will be submitted  for U.S. regulatory approval this year, according to  researchers and the company that makes the device.