Heart Valves Implanted Without Open-Heart Surgery

Heart Valves Implanted Without Open-Heart Surgery
An innovative approach for implanting a new aortic heart valve without open-heart surgery is being offered to patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Known as the PARTNER (Placement of AoRTic traNscathetER valves) trial, this Phase 3 multicenter study is being led by national co-principal investigators Dr. Martin Leon and Dr.

Obesity May Play A Role In Erectile Dysfunction
A new study may be an important motivational tool for obese men to lose weight! According to a study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, obese men with erectile dysfunction (ED) are shown to have low levels of hormones, such as testosterone. A correlation between certain conditions associated with obesity, particularly hypertension, are the most important determinants of obesity-related ED.

Chronic Total Occlusion: 6th International Summit To Be Held Feb. 5-6, 2009 In NYC
WHAT: The Sixth International Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Summit is a two-day conference featuring state-of-the-art technologies, research findings and new developments in therapeutic procedures that are essential for interventional cardiologists to optimize procedural success in chronic total coronary occlusions.

PD2i Technology At Core Of Future Platforms For Risk Stratification Of Trauma And Sudden Cardiac Death
David H. Fater, President and CEO of Vicor Technologies, Inc., announced that on December 29, 2008 Vicor Technologies received FDA 510(k) approval (K082709) to market its PD2i Analyzer, permitting immediate commercialization of the technology. Vicor Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: VCRT) is a development-stage biotechnology company focused on the commercialization of innovative non-invasive diagnostics using its patented, proprietary PD2i algorithm for cardiovascular and trauma use.

Bicycle Seat Design Can Directly Affect A Man's Sexual Function
Long suspected by the 5 million recreational bike riders and sexual medicine experts, bicycle seat design-shorter noseless seats versus the standard protruding nose extended seat-can directly affect a man's sexual function, based on the nation's first prospective study of healthy policemen riding bikes on the job. The study is published in the current issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Dr.

MMWR: Investigation of Patients Treated by an HIV-Infected Cardiothoracic Surgeon --- Israel, 2007
Transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from an infected health-care worker to patients is rare (1), with the greatest potential for occurrence during exposure-prone, invasive surgical procedures in which the blood of the health-care worker might come into contact with patients' blood or mucous membranes.