Marilyn Rinker MSN: begins two-year term as VONL President.
Marilyn Rinker began her two year term as VONL President as of September 2007. Marilyn brings a wealth of skills to the position. Her background includes many years in nursing administration including serving as Nursing Director for Medicine and Cardiology at Fletcher Allen; Oncology Clinical Co-ordinator at The Vermont...

Designing with implantable fabrics.
Fabrics used in medical implantation have come a long way since the days when they were first used in early open surgical procedures. Today, implantable fabrics are commonplace in the projects and designs of device engineers, and use continues to grow across orthopedics, cardiology, tissue regeneration and general surgery....

Minimizing short-term complications in patients who have undergone cardiac invasive procedure: a randomized controlled trial involving position change and sandbag/Kardiyak invazif girisim yapilan hastalarda kisa donem komplikasyonlari azaltma: kum torbasi ve pozisyon degisikligini iceren randomize kontrollu bir calisma.
Dear Editor, An interesting study conducted by Yilmaz et al. (1) was published in one of the recent issues of the Anatolian Journal of Cardiology. This study evaluated the effects of placing a sandbag on puncture site and changing position in bed on vascular complications and back...

Prevention of calcification with TPEN in pericardial bio-prosthetic heart valve material/Biyoprostetik kalp kapagi materyalinde kalsifikasyonun TPEN ile onlenmesi.
On December 2007 issue of the Anatolian Journal of cardiology, an article entitled "Prevention of calcification with TPEN in pericardial bioprosthetic heart valve material" was published (1). As bio-prosthetic heart valves are more frequently being used in valve replacement procedures today, the authors' findings are of paramount importance. Calcification...

CELONOVA UNVEILS CATANIA CORONARY STENT WITH POLYZENE-Z.
CeloNova BioSciences, Inc., Atlanta, a developer of innovative medical devices, has announced breakthrough results from the ATLANTA study of the CATANIA(TM) Coronary Stent System with NanoThin Polyzene(R)-F. Corrado Tamburino, MD, president of the Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology, Chief of Interventional Cardiology at Ferrarotto Hospital and Full...

Smoking cessation intervention for inpatients pays off.
CHICAGO -- An intensive smoking cessation intervention that starts while patients are hospitalized for an acute cardiac event is not merely highly cost effective, it is actually cost saving, Robyn Kondrack, Pharm.D., reported at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. Indeed, the mean cost-effectiveness...

Evaluation of hemodynamic changes in patients with mitral valve replacement using dobutamine stress echocardiography/Mitral kapak replasmani yapilan hastalarda dobutamin stres ekokardiyografi ile hemodinamik degisikliklerin degerlendirilmesi.
Dear Prof. Dr. Bilgin Timuralp Editor-in-Chief The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology The article by Tulga Ulus A. et al. (1) published in the recent issue of The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology investigated the hemodynamic response to Dobutamine stress (DSE) of bicarbon mechanical mitral...

Dyspnea in a pregnant 20-year-old woman with electrocardiographic right ventricular enlargement.
[FIGURE OMITTED] A 20-year-old woman, who was 2 months pregnant, came to the cardiology clinic complaining of exertional dyspnea of 6-months duration. Her chest was clear to auscultation, and the neck veins were modestly elevated. The second heart sound was single and loud. There was no cyanosis...

Work stress linked to heart disease.
New research on Whitehall civil servants has produced strong evidence of how work stress is linked to the biological mechanisms involved in the onset of heart disease. The large-scale study, from the European Society of Cardiology, is the first to look at the cardiovascular mechanisms of work stress in...

New business models dot medical outsourcing.
Byline: Hemamalini Venkatraman & J Padmapriya CHENNAI/BANGALORE: Indian hospitals are upping the ante on outsourcing. Instead of making heavy capital investments on expensive diagnostic equipment, costing Rs 1.5 to Rs 5 crore for MRI & CT scans, hospitals are opting for newer pay-per-use and outsourced models. ...