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Green tea is an affair of heart
Not only for green tea fanciers. A recent study published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation shows that drinking green tea improves the Read more …
New drug protects against venous blood clots
In the EU blood clots are responsible for killing 544.000 people each year. Rivaroxaban, a new oral given anticoagulant drug from Bayer Healthcare, is significantly more effective Read more …
Cardiac devices not always beneficial
A new study from the Saint Louis University found that implantable cardiac devices are not beneficial in patients with advanced heart failure because they are too ill. Read more …
Predicting the odds of heart attacks via ultrasound?
According to Prof Clemens von Birgelen, cardiologist on staff at the Thorax Centre of the Medisch Spectrum Twente in Enschede, who quoted from recent studies in his inaugural as a Read more …
AT RISK: qualified cardiac research in Germany
At this year’s Congress of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) in March, its President Professor Gerd Heusch spoke of the increasingly unfavourable conditions for scientific work at Read more …
Myocardial infarction
In his lecture Focus on new therapy strategies for heart attacks, Prof. Hans Michael Piper, President of this year’s Congress of the German Cardiac Society, gave some fascinating Read more …
First bio-degradable implants repair cardiac defects in children
The Department for Paediatric Cardiology at the University Medical Centre, at Johannes Gutenberg University, in Mainz, has extended its range of services for lower impact Read more …
Medtronic’s new generation drug-eluting stents
At the German Congress of Cardiology, this March, Professor Sigmund Silber, of the Cardiology and Clinical Practice, in Munich, presented results from the Medtronic RESOLUTE Read more …
France: Smoking ban lowers cardiac emergency admissions by 15%
The French Health Authorities announced in February that the smoking ban — which began in February 2007 for communal buildings and work places, and was implemented in January 2008 Read more …
Russian interventional cardiologists
The 3rd Russian Congress of Interventional Cardio-angiology, held in Moscow in March, showed a manifold increase in the number of diagnostic and therapeutic endovascular Read more …
Russian surgeons perform cardiac autotransplantation to treat giant left atrium, severe mitral and tricuspid regurgitation
Arrythmogenic remodelling of the left atrium is a common complication of atrial fibrillation, leading to severe haemodynamic disturbances. Read more …
AZ Sint-Jan AV Hospital in Bruges adapts to the new IMPAX Cardiovascular Suite
Among its many specialties, the 909-bed AZ Sint-Jan AV Hospital in Bruges, Belgium, has a high level of expertise in cardiac catheterisations and electrophysiology. Read more …
Nutrition and health
Cardiovascular diseases kill more than 12 million people worldwide every year and are the cause of death for more than 50% of all Europeans over the age of 65. Read more …
Diabetics and drug-eluting stents
Boston Scientific Corporation has announced results from a pooled analysis of patients from its TAXUS IV and TAXUS V randomised clinical trials to compare the safety and efficacy Read more …
EuroPCR 2008
The European Association for Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions Congress (EuroPCR) aims to draw together cardiologists, surgeons, radiologists, angiologists, industry and Read more …
Further reports from the ACC 57th Scientific Session
A five-year study of 516 participants with coronary artery disease showed that patients who reduced their anxiety levels or kept them steady were 60% less likely to have a heart Read more …
Quality reporting for the MRI Quality Register
The German MRI Quality Register resulted from cooperation between the Department of Cardiology (headed by Professor Udo Sechtem) at the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart and the Read more …
From head to toe
The new Philips 256-slice Brilliance iCT came in to use recently at the University Hospital in Ulm. The system produces quick, high-res scans with 80% less radiation. Read more …
Interventional radiology
Along with paediatric radiology, interventional radiology will have a high profile at the 89th German Radiology Congress and 5th Joint Congress with the Austrian Radiology Read more …
MR Angiography: A future without contrast media?
Developments in MRI over the last few years have revolutionized the diagnosis and therapy of cardiovascular diseases. Contrast-enhanced MR angiography has established itself as a Read more …
HITACHI to showcase latest technologies at Paris event and to present the group seminar "What's next in Healthcare" on May 21, from 10 am