Items Tagged ‘angioplasty’
January 12, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for January 12, 2018
Reuters, Hot flashes caused by cancer therapy can be prevented, treated by Carolyn Crist — Dr. Charles Loprinzi of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who has researched cancer symptoms for more than 25 years, told Reuters Health by phone, “One patient told me that in the winter, she’d get in […]
Tags: A.L.S., Alena Rose Brown, alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, anesthesia, angioplasty, antidepressants, Ben Utecht, Bill Schluter, bloat, brain trauma, Breast Cancer
December 2, 2011
30-Day Readmissions High After PCI
Nearly 10% of patients undergoing angioplasty and other percutaneous interventions (PCI) at the Mayo Clinic were readmitted within 30 days after discharge, but the extent to which the readmissions reflected faulty initial treatment was unclear, researchers said. Review of prospective registry data covering 15,498 inpatient PCI procedures carried out at Mayo’s St. Marys Hospital over […]
Tags: angioplasty, Henry H. Ting, Stents
April 1, 2010
New Insights Into Who’s At Risk With Angioplasty
Who’s most at risk when undergoing the common, artery-opening procedure known as angioplasty? A major U.S. study may have come up with some answers — risk factors that doctors can use to gauge the odds of death after angioplasty, also known as “percutaneous coronary intervention” (PCI). “This is the largest representation of PCI practice […]
Tags: angioplasty
November 17, 2009
Mayo Study Shows Stroke Incidence Related to Angioplasty Remains Steady over Past 15 Years
Results ‘Somewhat Surprising’ Because Patients Are Older, Have More Complicated Disease Results of a Mayo Clinic study show the incidence of stroke or mini-stroke related to a coronary angioplasty remained steady over a 15-year period… In a retrospective study of 17,249 patients who had 21,502 angioplasty procedures between 1994 and 2008 at Mayo Clinic […]