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Surgery: Cardiothoracic (Heart Services)
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Heart valve 'redo'
Four out of 106 heart replacement valves from pig hearts failed
June 29,
2009 -- Pig heart valves used to replace defective aortic valves in human patients failed much earlier and more often than expected, says a report from cardiac surgeons at the School of Medicine. This is the first report to demonstrate this potential problem, the researchers say.
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Quiet killer
WUSM clinic devoted to treating deadly, silent heart condition
April 9,
2008 -- Every so often we read a news report in which a young athlete collapses and dies during a competition — it's rare, but it happens. And when it does, often the cause is a silent heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic at the School of Medicine is devoted to diagnosis and treatment of HCM.
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Simple, significant improvement
Surgeons announce advance in atrial fibrillation surgery
April 7,
2008 -- Heart surgeons at the School of Medicine report that by adding a simple 10-20 second step to an operative procedure they achieved a significant improvement in the outcome for the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). The surgeons redirected wayward electrical impulses that cause AF by creating precisely placed scars, or ablations, in the heart muscle.
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Ralph Damiano Jr.
The John Shoenberg Professor of Surgery
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The chief of cardiac surgery in the Division of Cariothoracic Surgery, Damiano is internationally recognized for his innovative research in surgical robotics and minimally invasive heart surgery.
Expertise: surgical robotics, minimally invasive heart surgery, robotically assisted surgery, minimally invasive surgery, heart rhythm abnormalities
Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / reckessg@wustl.edu
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Nader Moazami
Director of Cardiac Transplantation
Moazami is an assistant professor of surgery in the Cardiac Surgery Section of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. He also is an attending cardiothoracic surgeon and chief of cardiac transplantation at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. While his principal clinical ...
Expertise: Surgical treatment of heart failure, ventricular assist device, end-stage heart disease, cardiac surgery, mechanical support, LVAD
Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu
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Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson is a board certified vascular surgeon with dozens of publications and awards to his credit. He owns two patents for devices related to vascular surgical procedures. He specializes in treating aortic and vascular aneurysms.
Expertise: General vascular procedures, abdominal aortic aneurysm, AAA
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Heart surgery may eliminate migraines
United Press International
Jan. 12,
2007 -- Some people with migraines may be able to trace their problem to a hole in the heart that formed before birth, say WUSTL researchers led by cardiologist John Lasala.
WUSTL is participating in clinical trials.
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Common drug found to repair aortic disorder
Los Angeles Times
April 7,
2006 -- A drug commonly prescribed for high blood pressure may be able to save lives by blocking the formation of lethal aneurysms in patients with Marfan syndrome, according to a report today in the journal Science.
Although the research was conducted in mice, it was so promising that the team will begin testing it in babies and children with the genetic disorder within a few months.
WUSTL scientist Alan Braverman, who heads WUSTL's Marfan Syndrome Clinic, says this is a landmark discovery.
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Surgery journal threatens ban for authors' hidden conflicts
Wall Street Journal
Jan. 5,
2006 -- With conflicts of interest increasingly casting doubt on the credibility of medical research, a leading surgery journal is cracking down on authors who fail to disclose links to industry, threatening to temporarily blacklist them.
The action comes as many medical journals struggle with the burgeoning links between researchers and industry.
One AtriCure study mentioned was written by at least two surgeons with financial ties to AtriCure that weren't disclosed in the journal. Richard Schuessler and Ralph Damiano reported that they were consultants to AtriCure and that the journal mistakenly failed to disclose those ties.
The study's medical findings were later challenged by doctors in England.
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Robot surgeons scrub up
Nature Magazine (UK)
Oct. 28,
2005 -- The creators of robot-assisted surgery hope that the remote-controlled surgeons are a step towards a time when traditional open surgery is a thing of the past.
The devices were invented by a team of engineers and doctors from U. Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha, and U. Nebraska in Lincoln.
In 2000, surgeons at the WUSTL School of Medicine conducted the first pilot trial of robot-assisted heart surgery, and a wide range of procedures now use mechanized instruments.
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Mild heart attacks
U.S. News & World Report Online
Sept. 28,
2004 -- Many heart attacks do not result in cardiac arrest, and more often than not, they are not as severe as classically defined heart attacks that require being rushed to treatment. The management of less severe heart attacks has been a "raging debate" among physicians, according to School of Medicine cardiologist Richard Bach.
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