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Ventrica (Fremont, California) has come up with a technique that it believes could enable the automatic anastomosis (connection) of blood vessels, which may provide heart surgeons with an alternative to the conventional method of hand suturing.
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Marc Sportsman has been named vice president of sales for ATS Medical (Minneapolis, Minnesota). Most recently, Sportsman served as an area vice president at St. Jude Medical. ATS Medical manufactures a pyrolitic carbon open pivot mechanical heart valve.
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Johnson & Johnsons (J&J; New Brunswick, New Jersey) Cordis(Miami Lakes, Florida) subsidiary, maker of the recently FDA-approved Cypher drug-eluting stent, and to a lesser extent Wyeth (Madison, New Jersey), maker of the sirolimus compound used on the device, have received the lions share of the attention when talking about the first U.S. player in this hot sector.
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One of the final players in the chain of events that leads to clot formation could prove a good target for a new generation of clot-busting drugs, a new study suggests.
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WASHINGTON The late-breaking clinical trial sessions of the 24th annual scientific sessions of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE; Natick, Massachusetts), which were held here in mid-May, focused on studies designed to refine the understanding of drugs and devices for major cardiac problems.
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The Women's Health Initiatives (WHI) was halted 1 year ago, but fallout from this landmark study continues. The study was designed to identify the risks or benefits of estrogen plus progesterone vs placebo in healthy postmenopausal women.
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Seven clinical examinations for shoulder labral tears were performed, and it was found that none of the examinations, either alone or in combination, was consistently reliable in diagnosing labral tears preoperatively.
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Arthroscopic reduction and fixation of ACL avulsion fractures of the tibia was effective at restoring a stable knee. Early motion and weight bearing were not a problem.
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This retrospective analysis of one surgeons experience compares the results of mini-open rotator cuff repair with arthroscopic repair and shows that the results are similar except for an increased incidence of shoulder fibrosis in the mini-open repair group.
