The drug's label gives a clear look at the drug's negative open-heart surgery safety data.
The idea is to relieve chest pain and perhaps prevent the need for open-heart surgery.
Max Weinberg has endured open-heart surgery, prostate-cancer treatment, two failed back operations, and seven hand operations.
Bristol's Ixabepilone would treat cancer, and edifoligide would be for use in open-heart surgery.
Major open-heart surgery, which involves cracking the ribs, is necessary to install the CorCap.
The UK is the third country in Europe after Sweden and Finland to perform open-heart surgery using robots.
Among his many colleagues, Lillehei was known as the father of open-heart surgery.
You could use this one to keep a human alive during open-heart surgery.
Few people outside of medicine have heard of Lillehei, and few remember the sweaty-palmed suspense of open-heart surgery's early years.
The drug is currently being tested following open-heart surgery and in a giant study to test its safety in hospitalized patients.
The heart plug is implanted through a transcatheter tube inserted through the groin, a minimally invasive procedure compared with open-heart surgery.
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In the most recent issue of the journal Circulation, researchers published a 600-patient study comparing angioplasty, open-heart surgery, and treatment with medicines.
Samantha shared with me that her father had recently had open-heart surgery and as a post-operation gift she presented her father his favorite thing.
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In 2002, the FBI raided a Tenet hospital in Redding, California, in connection with its investigation into whether doctors were performing unnecessary open-heart surgery.
Pfizer revealed last month that the drug increased the risk of heart attack in patients who had undergone open-heart surgery in two separate studies.
At the end of a year, the death rates were the same among the patients who got the valve and those who received open-heart surgery.
He holds a patent on a solution that can preserve organs and one on an aortic valve that can be implanted without highly invasive open-heart surgery.
The fact that Bextra, given with an injectable drug, increased the risk of heart attacks following open-heart surgery will also be included in the Bextra label.
The short-term risk of surgery can affect patients' treatment decision, especially given the prospect of open-heart surgery and weeks of recovery, compared with a less-invasive angioplasty.
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"It's used particularly for open-heart surgery, where you need immediate control of the anti-coagulant, " says Jack Ansell, vice chair of clinical affairs at Boston University Medical Center.
Memorial Hermann's open-heart surgery live tweet was a world first, although other hospitals have used to Twitter to cover different operations before, including a few brain surgeries.
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To get close to profitability, Price is also betting on Neutralase, a drug that would be used in coronary-artery bypass graft operations--more commonly referred to as open-heart surgery.
What are the risks of balloon valvuloplasty or open-heart surgery?
Traditionally, aortic valve replacement has been performed with open-heart surgery.
As for the little Syrian girl who has survived a war and now open-heart surgery, she will need one more operation in about a year's time as her body grows.
Still, Pfizer has also been discussing the open-heart surgery data with the FDA, says Pfizer spokeswoman Susan Bro, and that data is also likely to be reflected in the product's label.
Another, Sara, is a veteran recovering from open-heart surgery.
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Hospitals run for profit are also less likely than nonprofit and government-run institutions to offer services like home health care and psychiatric emergency care, which are not as profitable as open-heart surgery.
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Bayer said in a statement that it "mistakenly" did not tell the FDA about the evaluation of 67, 000 hospital records regarding the drug Trasylol, which is used to prevent bleeding during open-heart surgery.
DePreist, who was 76, had been in and out of the hospital since a massive heart attack last March that was followed by open-heart surgery, his wife, Ginette DePreist, told The Oregonian newspaper.
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