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Adam Greenbaum, M.D. - Cardiology, Henry Ford Health System Dr. Greenbaum is an Interventional Cardiologist at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. He specializes in treating Coronary Artery Disease and Peripheral Art... By: HenryFordTV … Continue reading →

Victoria New cardiology services including a catheter laboratory to perform time-critical imaging and treatment will open at Sunshine Hospital early next year. Health Minister David Davis said the government was providing $11 million for the new cardiology facility to ensure patients in Melbournes west could receive treatment closer to home. He said the facility would include a second CT scanner and an electrophysiology lab where patients with an irregular heartbeat could be tested, diagnosed and treated. Western Health chief executive Alex Cockram said receiving timely treatment was vital to ensure the best outcomes for patients after a heart attack. Advertisement For the people of the west theyve had to move to other hospitals . . . so its really fantastic they can now get care here at [Sunshine] hospital when they are arrive, she said. Mr Davis said the new cardiology facility would complement an intensive care unit due to open at the hospital, amid growing demand for services in Melbournes west. Continue reading here: New cardiology facility at Sunshine Hospital … Continue reading →

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 4-Jul-2014 Contact: ESC Press Office press@escardio.org 33-622-418-492 European Society of Cardiology Barcelona, 4 July 2014: The first evidence for a shockless treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF) will be presented today at Frontiers in CardioVascular Biology (FCVB) 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting is organised by the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in collaboration with 13 European cardiovascular science societies. http://spo.escardio.org/SessionDetails.aspx?eevtid=65&sessId=13104 Dr Brian O. Bingen, first author, said: "AF is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Symptoms range from the feeling of fish flapping in the chest, to tiredness and exercise intolerance. AF can lead to tachycardia induced cardiomyopathy and thromboembolic events which increase the risk of morbidity and death." He added: "Preventing these symptoms and complications requires bringing the patient out of AF and back to the normal sinus rhythm. The quickest way to do that is to deliver an electric shock. The shock depolarises and synchronises the heart muscle and allows the sinus node to re-establish a normal rhythm." Dr Bingen continued: "Shocks are currently the most effective way to get patients directly back into sinus rhythm but they are very painful. To deliver a shock you have to give … Continue reading →

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 4-Jul-2014 Contact: ESC Press Office press@escardio.org 33-622-418-492 European Society of Cardiology This news release is available in Spanish. Barcelona, 4 July 2014: An association between high blood cholesterol and breast cancer has been found in a study of more than 1 million patients over a 14 year time period in the UK. The research will be presented today at Frontiers in CardioVascular Biology (FCVB) 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting is organised by the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in collaboration with 13 European cardiovascular science societies. http://spo.escardio.org/SessionDetails.aspx?eevtid=65&sessId=13301&subSessId=3494 Dr Rahul Potluri, founder of the ACALM Study Unit and lead author, said: "Our preliminary study suggests that women with high cholesterol in their blood may be at greater risk of getting breast cancer. It raises the possibility of preventing breast cancer with statins, which lower cholesterol, but as this is a primitive study, significant time and research is needed before this idea can be tested." Over the past few years, population studies have suggested an association between obesity and breast cancer. Last year a study in mice concluded that lowering circulating cholesterol or interfering with its metabolism may be used to … Continue reading →

Minister for Health Kamineni Srinivas and Minister for Major Irrigation Devineni Umamaheswara Rao inaugurated the new 100-bed hospital of Praveen Cardiac Centre in the city on Monday. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Srinivas said there were very few cardiac hospitals in the country, but the number of heart patients was on the increase. He added that even the poor were having diseases because of change in lifestyle. Chief cardiologist of the hospital Praveen Kumar said the goal of the hospital was to extend cardiac treatment to all. In the past seven years, he performed 850 bypass surgeries and 2,500 interventional procedures on patients from rural areas. COMMENTS Please Wait while comments are loading... 1. Comments will be moderated by The Hindu editorial team. 2. Comments that are abusive, personal, incendiary or irrelevant cannot be published. 3. Please write complete sentences. Do not type comments in all capital letters, or in all lower case letters, or using abbreviated text. (example: u cannot substitute for you, d is not 'the', n is not 'and'). 4. We may remove hyperlinks within comments. 5. Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name, to avoid rejection. See the original post: Cardiology treatment within … Continue reading →

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Renowned pediatric cardiologist John P. Breinholt, M.D. has been named the chief of pediatric cardiology at Childrens Memorial Hermann Hospital. He will also serve as the director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School. With his extensive expertise and work in pediatrics, and specifically in the cardiovascular area, Dr. Brienholt will be a wonderful leader to the staff and medical team here, said Eric Eichenwald, M.D., physician-in-chief at Childrens Memorial Hermann Hospital. We all look forward to working with him. With a goal of growing the pediatric cardiology program across the Memorial Hermann Health System, Dr. Breinholt will treat various heart issues in children including aortic valve disease, atrial fibrillation, cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, pulmonary valve disease, pulmonary hypertension, septal defect, tricuspid valve disease, pericardial disease, mitral valve disease, coarctation of the aorta and congenital heart disease. Bringing in a cardiologist of Dr. Breinholts caliber will not only be an asset for the hospital but to the Houston community, said Susie Distefano, CEO of Childrens Memorial Hermann Hospital. Were so pleased to have him join our team and bring his outstanding medical experience … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 27, 2014 A new study in Circulation: Heart Failure, a medical journal put out by the American Heart Association, has found a link between a higher risk of heart failure and the consumption of processed red meat in men. The study was conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and looked at 37,035 men. Over the course of twelve years, researchers found that those who ate 75 g or more of processed red meat a day were 28% more likely to experience heart failure than those who ate 25 g or less. The idea that people should eat less processed meat has been around for some time, said Arash Bereliani, MD, FACC, a board certified cardiologist and founder of the Institute for Cardiology and Preventive Medicine in Beverly Hills. This study, however, gives us good data to see that, yes, processed red meat does have an effect on our risk for heart failure. While the study did not look at women, the authors expect the results will be the same. The study also concluded that the men who ate the most processed red meat had double the risk of death by heart failure … Continue reading →