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Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American men and women. One in [...]
Coronary artery disease is the most common type of heart disease in the U.S, according [...]
Each year, around the world, 175,000 deaths are attributed to aortic aneurysms. The aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body, carries blood directly from the [...]
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Feb. 6, 2014 — More people who have known coronary heart disease die from other causes — such as cancer, and lung and neurological diseases — than heart disease, compared with 20 years ago, according to a Mayo Clinic study published online Feb. 10 in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal. Journalists: Sound bites with Dr. Gulati and b-roll of a cath lab are available in the downloads. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-4t_sAN9A The researchers evaluated the trends in cause-specific, long-term mortality from 1991 to 2008 in patients at Mayo Clinic in Rochester who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a procedure used to open clogged heart arteries. They broke the study population into three eras: 1991 to 1996, 1997 to 2002, and 2003 to 2008. Cardiac deaths predominated in the first era and were about equal with non-cardiac deaths in the middle era. In the final era — the modern-era (2003 to 2008) — non-cardiac deaths dominated.
On Saturday, July 20, Charanjit Rihal, M.D., will join us to talk about coronary artery disease. Many people suffer [...]
Stents — A Useful Alternative to Temporary Colostomy in Some Patients with Colon Cancer August 6, 2010 Dear Mayo Clinic: I've heard of [...]
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Pharmacogenomics is a valuable tool for health care providers to help prescribe the right drug for the right patient to [...]