Stamford Hospital to offer emergency angioplasties
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An emergency angioplasty operation involves inflating a balloon inside a heart attack patient&#39;s blocked artery, opening it up quickly and restoring blood flow.
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Frailer heart patients could benefit from an advance in keyhole surgery carried out for the first time in the UK.
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LOS ANGELES -- A downtown hospital announced it would open the county&#39;s first new trauma center in more than a decade, a move that would provide another option for treating severely injured patients if the trauma unit is closed at the troubled Martin
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Two departments at the Royal Marsden Hospital could reopen within days of a serious fire.
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New research suggests that more people survive major heart attacks with fewer problems if doctors use a mini-vacuum to clear out an artery blockage instead of pushing it aside to restore blood flow.
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Over the last decade, the use of angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting to treat elderly heart patients has increased, and outcomes of these procedures have improved.
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By James Lyons, John Deane and John-Paul Ford Rojas, PA News. Prime Minister Tony Blair was being treated in hospital for a recurring heart condition today.
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By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 17--At St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, heart attack patients are receiving faster treatment.
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Bill Clinton was hospitalized with chest pains and shortness of breath Friday and will undergo heart bypass surgery in an operation that could sideline the
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Tony Blair is to be admitted to hospital on Friday  for a procedure to correct a heart problem.
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hospital, and his doctors say he would have risked a &quot;substantial&quot; heart attack without the operation. an operation, Chief of Cardiology Allan Schwartz of New York-Presbyterian Hospital told a news conference on Monday.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Needham says it will proceed with a $30 million expansion plan late this year to increase the hospital's capacity and improve its emergency and radiology departments.
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NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton was moved to an operating room early Monday and doctors began preparing him for a heart bypass operation, a hospital source told The Associated Press.    Preparations began at about 6:45 a.m...
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NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton checked into a Manhattan hospital Friday with chest pains and will soon undergo bypass surgery, his office announced.    An angiogram given to Clinton, who had been expected to campaign for Sen...
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NEW YORK  - Over the last decade, the use  of angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting to treat  elderly heart patients has increased, and outcomes of these  procedures have improved.
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A cardiologist has resigned his staff privileges at an Eastern Shore hospital as officials continue to investigate whether he performed unnecessary stent procedures, officials said Wednesday. Dr. John R. McLean resigned his privileges at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md. last Friday, citing visual impairment as a disability, hospital officials said.
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After a heart attack, treatment with angioplasty or bypass surgery during the initial hospital stay appears to improve survival compared with a more delayed, conservative approach, new research shows.