European Archives - Page 977 of 1021 - European Medical Journal

Transcatheter Options for Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation

Transcatheter therapy for valvular heart disease (VHD) as an alternative for surgery, as the standard of care, has emerged rapidly over the last 10 years.

Circulating Haemoglobin Levels and the Risk of Atherosclerosis in Asian Indian Populations

Background: The global burden of coronary heart disease (CHD) is estimated to be the highest on the Indian subcontinent. The pathophysiology of this…

The Program on the Surgical Control of the Hyperlipidemias (POSCH) and the Lipid Regulatory Hypothesis

The Lipid Regulatory Hypothesis (LRH) states that the best way to regress atherosclerotic plaque is to simultaneously decrease the cholesterol being…

How I Treat: Coronary Heart Disease: The Pleiotropic Effects of Statins

Cardiovascular (CV) diseases currently represent the first cause of death in industrialised countries with coronary heart disease (CHD) corresponding to…

EMJ Cardiology 3.1 2015

The field of Cardiology is one which has rapidly evolved over the last few decades; advances in procedures, diagnosis, and treatments have progressively…

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Virtual Blood Could Be the Key to More Effective Treatments for Blood Cancers

DEVELOPMENT of treatments for leukaemia and lymphoma could be aided by a new computer model that simulates the development of blood cells…

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Combination Therapy Trial for Breast Cancer

BREAST cancer patients with small node-negative HER2-positive tumours achieved 3-year survival approaching 100% with adjuvant paclitaxel and trastuzumab…

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Anti-Cancer Transformers: The next Generation Self-Assembling Arsenal

PROGRAMMABLE biomaterial that is capable of spontaneously assembling into a fighting structure once injected into a living body has the potential to…

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Education of Medical Students in the Robotic Surgery Operating Room

Starting from the first year of medical school, our medical students have the opportunity to observe robotic urological procedures in the operating room…

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InflectraTM (Infliximab) Patient Registry Reports Interim Results in the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Data have been presented on the use of Hospira’s Inflectra (infliximab) at the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (ECCO-ibd) conference.