by National Institutes of Health Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The incidence rate of infective endocarditis—a rare but often fatal inflammation of the heart valves—among patients with cocaine use disorder or opioid use disorder increased from 2011 to 2022, with the steepest increase occurring from 2021 to 2022, a new study reports. Study findings contribute to...
CONN HASTINGS CARDIAC SURGERY, CARDIOLOGY, GENETICS, REHAB Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a way to make stem cells move toward heart tissue when they are injected intravenously. The treatment could improve the efficacy of stemcell therapies for heart disease, which are currently hampered when most injected cells are filtered out of circulation by organs such as the lungs and spleen. Stem cell therapies...
The 27-year-old, from Vancouver, Canada, was diagnosed with endocarditis The killer infection can trigger heart failure and strikes one in 30,000 people Doctors believe that the infection actually triggered the bulging blood vessel A man was left with a bulging lump on his hand and a deadly heart infection after a simple trip to the...
