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July 2007

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  bt Cardiac patches stimulate regeneration, improve function after ... PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA "Many patients with severe congenital heart disease eventually hit a place where the heart isn't pumping adequately," Kuhn says. He envisions inserting the ...
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          2007 - 18 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Chinese doctors prepare to separate conjoined twins Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom Chinese doctors are preparing to separate four-month-old conjoined twins born with congenital heart disease. The twins, who were born in March, ...
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          2007 - 18 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Conjoined twins await surgery in China ic Wales - United Kingdom Conjoined twins born with congenital heart disease will soon undergo separation surgery at a hospital in China. China's Xinhua News Agency released ...
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          2007 - 18 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Eighth heart operation for James BBC News - UK James was born with a congenital heart defect and had already undergone seven operations on his heart. Last year, James had his eighth - a heart transplant ...
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          2007 - 18 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Periostin induces proliferation of differentiated cardiomyocytes ... TheHeart.Org - New York,NY,USA ... congenital heart defects in children. "There are some data out there that suggest the number of mononucleated cells goes down with age and with disease ...
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          2007 - 18 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Over 80 Iraqi patients cured at New Delhi's Hospital Zee News - Noida,India Most of the patients, aged up to 18 years, were suffering from congenital heart disease and hearing impairment. A six-year old child underwent an Intra ...
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          2007 - 18 Juillet-July  )

  bt   11-year-old girl seeks assistance New Vision - Kampala,Uganda Doctors say Rickline Atukunda, 11, has a congenital heart defect, which is grossly affecting her growth. The money will cover medical costs, travel, ...
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          2007 - 18 Juillet-July  )

  bt     bt   Russian doctors invent scalpel-free heart surgery RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia Irregular heartbeat, referred to in scientific quarters as arrhythmia, is more often than not a consequence of a congenital heart disease. ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Effort made to help teen join band Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA Sadly, she lost her 15-year-old son, Dylan Fitzgerald Carlton, to complications from a congenital heart defect. When Delta Upsilon fraternity -- where Donna ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Now, she might lose her one-year-old baby Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India Ayush, who was barely four-months old when his father died, suffers from a congenital cyanotic heart disease, brought on by absence of pulmonary valve ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Battler cares for kids Courier Mail - Australia By Madeline Healy Born with congenital heart disease, Paige underwent surgery for the first time when she was two days old, has had four open-heart ...
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  bt   Understand And Examine Hospital Cardiology PACS Applications Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA ... Markets (
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  bt   ) has announced the addition of "Market Overview: Hospital Cardiology PACS Applications 2006 ...
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  bt   Open heart surgery done in Beloit Beloit Daily News - Beloit,WI,USA We are tremendously proud of our success and commitment to patient safety," said Larry Bergen, Beloit Memorial Hospital director of Cardiology. ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Life Full of Ups and Downs for Recipient of Heart Transplant Kitsap Sun (Subscription) - WA, United States She was born with a congenital heart defect, which was fixed in an operation when she was 5. Kristiana has a long scar but remembers nothing of the trauma. ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease Midterm results of surgical ... The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Objective: We have analyzed, in a clinical multicenter study, the effect of cardiac surgery in adults with congenital heart disease in Italy. ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - [Full Text of this Article] Midterm results of surgical intervention for congenital heart disease in adults: An Italian multicenter study Massimo A. ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Left ventricular restoration surgery for isolated left ventricular ... The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Left ventricular (LV) noncompaction (LVNC) is a rare congenital dysfunction of ventricular morphogenesis resulting from arrested muscle fiber compaction in ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Baby girl receives heart transplant in China ABC7Chicago.com - IL, USA Doctors in Shanghai diagnosed the Vietnamese baby with congenital heart disease soon after birth. They warned her parents that she would only live about 30 ...
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  bt   Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - I think this is an important article because it allows us to focus a little bit on the issue of the place of adult CHD in the training of surgeons, ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Teenage golfer to speak at U of I Hospitals DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA Kline was born with a congenital heart defect called single ventricle with transposition of the greater vessels, the hospital reported. ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   PCH, Mayo join forces for heart patients Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA by Angela Gonzales As children with congenital heart disease mature, Phoenix Children's Hospital has found a way to continue to treat its longtime patients. ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Dr Chris Cannon named editor-in-chief of Cardiosource TheHeart.Org - New York,NY,USA Boston, MA - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) announced this week that Dr Christopher Cannon (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA) will serve ...
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  bt   Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation effective in hypertrophic ... Medicexchange (press release) - London,UK ... fibrillation (AF) is effective in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, according to a report in the June 1st American Journal of Cardiology. ...
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  bt   Doctors in the House: New endocarditis guidelines Cincinnati Post - OH,USA Heart conditions that still require antibiotics prior to some dental procedures include: artificial heart valves, relatively rare forms of congenital heart ...
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  bt   Baby James recovering well from life-saving heart surgery Wicklow People - Wicklow,Ireland Little James was born with pulmonary atresia, a rare, congenital heart defect sometimes called blue baby syndrome', because blood circulation is severely ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Man admits abusing baby Kansas City Star - MO,USA 31 with a congenital heart defect. A chest X-ray on Feb. 12 showed no injuries. But an X-ray taken during a follow-up visit to a doctor showed numerous rib ...
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  bt   How to Tone Your Blood Vessels and Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease Newstarget.com - Taichung,Taiwan Hellenic Journal of Cardiology, 2005;46:232-239. Vogel RA, Corretti MC, Plotnick GD. The postprandial effect of components of the Mediterranean diet on ...
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  bt   Pediatrix Acquires San Antonio Pediatric Cardiology Practice Genetic Engineering News (press release) - New Rochelle,NY,USA Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. (NYSE: PDX) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of a pediatric cardiology physician group practice based in ...
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  bt   How Maker of Stents for Kids Ran Afoul of FDA Wall Street Journal - USA William E. Hellenbrand, chief of pediatric cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia, calls Mr. Tower "by far the best person in the world to ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Heart patient seeks help New Vision - Kampala,Uganda According to Dr. Peter Lwabi, a consultant at Mulago Hospital, Erioru is suffering from tetralogy, a congenital heart disease. He explained that the boy ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   The Basics of Menopause and Hormone Therapy II: Types of HRT and ... ScienceBlogs - USA Coronary Heart Disease: The first studies demonstrating that ERT could reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) were released in the 1980s (Bain et ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   A statin soon after a heart attack beneficial: study Reuters - USA The results, which appear in the American Journal of Cardiology, are based on a study of 702 patients who began statin therapy when they were discharged ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   LiDCO wins US patent approval Business Weekly - UK While the technology is very much in the early stages of development for use in interventional cardiology, LiDCO says interest in the application is rising ...
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  bt   NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY TECHNOLOGIST Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA The Cardiology Department at Overlake Internal Medicine Associates has an opportunity for certified/registered graduates of an accredited NMT program with ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Vascular Solutions gets FDA approval on new catheter MSN Money - USA ... become at least a $10 million product for the company, which focuses on developing products within interventional radiology and interventional cardiology.
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  bt   US$20000 needed to cure a heart patient Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia ... resident in Lamin is seeking financial assistance from the general public to undergo special surgery as she is suffering from congenital heart disease. ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Baby receives 800th heart transplanted by UA Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA Edna Acedo was born with a congenital defect - a malformed aortic valve - and when she was about 2 months old, her parents noticed that she was gasping for ...
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  bt   SSRIs may raise birth defect risk Baxter Bulletin - Baxter,AR,USA Overall, the study found no significant links between SSRI use in early pregnancy and congenital heart defects or other kinds of birth defects. ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Heart care in a Heartbeat Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India It helps in the diagnosis of congenital heart diseases by studying the transmitted electrocardiograms, echocardiograms or angiographic films what is ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Older patients reap positive benefits with high dose statins EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA The key to beneficial treatment appears to be dosage, says lead author Nanette K. Wenger, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology, ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Heart-felt fundraising delivers the goods Waikato Times - Waikato,New Zealand Les and Sandra Marston, who lost daughter Melissa to a congenital heart defect eight years ago, helped by raising $12000 with a golf tournament in ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   Repairing a child's broken heart Kansas.com - KS,USA Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a congenital defect that leaves four out of 10000 babies with a severely underdeveloped left side of the heart. ...
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  bt   Molecule Signals Heart Disease in Early Stages Washington Post - United States The finding is detailed in the July 10 issue of theJournal of the American College of Cardiology. Twice a day, the girls journal about what they experience. ...
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  bt   The Medical Minute: Congenital heart disease grows up Penn State Live - PA,USA By William Davidson Treatment of adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) represents one of the crowning achievements of modern medicine. ...
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  bt   Women's Hearts at Risk from High-Carb Diets HeartZine - London,UK Findings of the study have been published in the current issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. For their study, lead researcher Dr. ...
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  bt   Pediatrix Acquires San Antonio Pediatric Cardiology Practice Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA The five pediatric cardiologists practicing as Pediatric Cardiology Associates are now part of Pediatrix's national group practice, the nation's leading ...
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  bt   Group gets children with heart defects on track with hot rod drivers The Morning Journal - Lorain,OH,USA She eventually founded Team Braveheart, whose goal ''is to increase CHD (Congenital Heart Disease) awareness by promoting positive mental and physical heart ...
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  bt   Aspiring doctor knows patients' ailments _ she has one Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA Now, she uses her condition to draw in children who come to Pediatric Cardiology, where she works with Dr. Carol Cottrill. ...
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  bt   Studies find slight rise in birth defect risks with SSRIs Pharma Times (subscription) - London,UK Taking selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants during pregnancy does not substantially increase the risk of congenital heart defects ...
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  bt   Your Health: For the sake of your heart New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia The AHA recommends that individuals without CHD eat a variety of fish, especially oily fish at least twice a week. Patients with CHD should consume ...
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  bt   Before a Sarasota double death, a pressure-cooker life Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA Her boss, Dr. Jeffrey B. Sack, and many in his cardiology office have declined comment. Ferguson had few close friends, two adult sons and an ex-husband ...
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  bt   Cardiologist published in national journal Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA The results, which also were presented at the annual College of Cardiology meeting in New Orleans in March, indicate that stopping blood thinners such as ...
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  bt   Antidepressants tied to fetal damage risk Chicago Tribune - United States The studies found that Paxil tripled the risk of a heart defect that reduces blood flow to the lungs, though the chance of developing such a defect was less ...
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  bt   Excitable boys Boston Globe - United States Strummer died suddenly, at 50, of a previously undiscovered congenital heart defect, after taking his dogs for an afternoon walk. ...
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  bt   Teen spirit Guardian Unlimited - UK Within 24 hours the Klines discovered that Mac, as she is known, had been born with a rare congenital heart defect referred to by doctors as 'functional ...
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  bt   Paxil and Birth Defects Lawsuit: I Just Hope We Can Help Others Lawyers and Settlements - Vancouver,BC,Canada He was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect--a transposition of the great arteries--but the good news was that surgery was possible. ...
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  bt   Heart experts to gather in Brunei The Brunei Times - Bandar,Brunei,Brunei Darussalam Other topics include congenital heart disease which is a heart disease in newborn babies, and interventional cardiology such as carotid stenting and aortic ...
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          2007 - 10 Juillet-July  )

  bt   ORLive Presents: Congenital Hole in the Heart Called Patent ... Web Services Journal - Montvale,NJ,USA ... device to close congenital holes in the heart, otherwise known as patent foramen ovale (PFO) and atrial septal defect, without open-heart surgery. ...
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  bt   Myocardial echocardiography confirms coronary syndromes Medicexchange (press release) - London,UK ... electrocardiograms and negative troponin findings, according to the team's report in the May 15th issue of the American Journal of Cardiology. ...
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  bt   Studies link antidepressant use to birth defects Los Angeles Times - CA,USA Two reports have tied the drug Paxil, in particular, to a higher rate of congenital heart malformation. The drug carries a warning about heart defects. ...
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  bt   New Study in Journal of Pediatrics Suggests Synagis(R ... PR Newswire UK (press release) - London,UK ... with a history of prematurity (less than or equal to 35 weeks gestational age), and children with hemodynamically significant congenital heart disease. ...
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