Nov 21, 1999 · • Hello All; want to chime in on the Ingela Schnittger / Stanford study. My husband just emerged from the unroofing procedure with Schnittger/Robbins at Stanford 12.15 2011. His myocardial bridge was 32 cm; significant - he is 40. His improvement and quality of life has been immediately better; his color - once grey/ashen is now pink and rosy.

Mar 12, 2012 · Myocardial bridging is an anatomical abnormality, one where the coronary artery actually is routed through the heart muscle, instead of sitting on top of it. While a number of people may have this anomoly, only a few experience the sometimes debilitating symptoms — in these cases a significant part of the artery is buried in the muscle.

Nov 21, 1999 · Long Myocardial Bridge in LAD With Moderate Stenosis(LAD-PROXIMAL,TUBULAR 50% LESION, MYOCARDIAL BRIDGE DIAG1(PROXIMAL)TUBULAR 40%LESION. The pain gets worse everyday.My job requires me to lift 80lbs box, which i just started 3weeks ago before i was sent back to hospital for chest pain and pain in left arm and …

For many years primary PCI (angioplasty and stents) has been the gold standard for the treatment of heart attack, specifically ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). A STEMI occurs when a blood clot, or thrombus, forms in the coronary artery and occludes blood flow, preventing oxygen from reaching the heart muscle.

the treatment of chronic angina pectoris. Two preliminary clinical trials provided evidence that it could im-prove exercise treadmill test (ETT) time and myocardial perfusion. The AGENT (Angiogenic GENe Therapy)-3 and -4 trials of a low and high dose of Ad5FGF-4 for chronic angina were initiated in the U.S. and other

SAN DIEGO, CA – April 4, 2006 – Cardium Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: CDTP) provided an updated summary describing the clinical development of its Generx™ product candidate for the potential treatment of patients with myocardial ischemia and recurrent angina associated with coronary heart disease. Angina, which is frequently experienced as ...

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Jan 15, 2009 · The FAME study (Fractional Flow Reserve vs. Angiography for Multivessel Evaluation) published in the January 15, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, concludes that "Routine measurement of FFR in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease who are undergoing PCI with drug-eluting stents significantly reduces the rate of the …

November 20, 2008 -- A recent study of 400 consecutive patients, published in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, looked at the transradial approach for catheterization, angioplasty and stenting in patients 75 years of age and older.

November 8, 2011 -- San Francisco-- New research findings released at TCT 2011 show that the Endeavor® zotarolimus-eluting stent (DES) from Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) outperformed Boston Scientific Corp.'s Taxus® paclitaxel-eluting stent on standard measures of safety and efficacy through five years of clinical follow-up.