�An estimated 60,000 Americans are walking around with meter bombs in their chests called thoracic aortic aneurysms.
At any time, their primary chest arteria could on the spur of the moment burst receptive, causing massive internal hemorrhage that is almost always fatal.
It's possible to compensate the defect before the artery bursts, but traditional surgery is highly incursive. The operation typically requires an 18-inch incision, a week or two in the infirmary and three to six months to recover. There are several major risks, including stroke and paralysis.
At Loyola University Hospital, an increasing number of patients are organism treated with a device called a stent graft, which is inserted without opening the chest. Stent graft patients typically go home in a day or deuce, and regain fully in about deuce weeks.
At Loyola's Thoracic Aortic Disease Clinic, about 70 percent of patients world Health Organization undergo surgery for aneurysms in the chest arteria are receiving stent grafts rather than open pectus surgery. "And as the technology evolves, we will be doing more and more stenting," said Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, associate professor in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
The stent grafting used in chest arteries is a polyester thermionic valve covered by metal webbing. It is delivered with a catheter (thin tube). The operating surgeon inserts the catheter in a seawall artery, and guides it to the thoracic aorta (chest artery). Once the stent graft is deployed from the catheter, the device expands outward to the walls of the artery. Depending on the patient, the stent grafting is roughly 1 in to 2 inches across-the-board and 4 to 8 inches long, said Dr. Michael Tuchek, who has conducted several clinical trials of aortic stent grafts. Tuchek is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Stritch.
James Feehan of Bolingbrook, Ill. recently received a stent graft to repair a life-threatening aneurysm in his chest aorta. The aorta is the main artery from the heart. An aneurysm occurs when the walls of the aorta thin and balloon outward-bound. As the bulge grows, there's an increasing peril the aorta could of a sudden burst. Feehan had undergone four sooner open-chest surgeries to recreate other defects in his aorta. By comparison, the stent bribery procedure was "a walk in the park," he said.
Feehan, 78, probably could not hold survived some other open bureau surgery, said Tuchek, wHO placed the stent graft. Now, thanks to the stent graft, "he canful go household and see his grandkids," Tuchek said.
The first-generation pectoral aortic stent grafts were approved in 2005. Feehan recently became one of the low gear patients in the land to have the latest-generation stent graft, called Talent. The modern device will make it possible for significantly more than patients to have stent graft repairs rather than open surgery, Tuchek said.
The difference between the old stent grafts and the new one "is kind of like the remainder between a Model T and a Ferrari," Tuchek said.
In a study promulgated recently in the Journal of Vascular Surgery, researchers compared 195 patients wHO received the new stent graft with 189 patients who underwent traditional open chest surgery. About 84 percent of the exposed chest surgery patients experient major complications, compared with only 41 percent in the stent graft grouping. After 12 months, 11.6 percent of the open chest surgery patients had died of aneurysm-related causes, compared with 3.1 percent in the stent bribery group. Tuchek is a co-author of the field, which was funded by the manufacturing business of the stent graft.
Loyola's thoracic aortic disease clinic follows more than 1,000 patients. About 80 percent of the patients have aortal aneurysms. Other conditions treated at the clinic include aortic dissection (the privileged layer of the aorta's artery paries splits open) and cankerous plaques (irregular buildup of cholesterol and other deposits in the aortic walls).
Risk factors for aneurysms and other aortal defects include smoking, solidifying of the arteries, diabetes, family history, high rake pressure and congenital disorders such as Marfan syndrome. Many people do not realize they have aneurysms until the bulges ar detected on CT scans or MRIs.
Because aortic disease is relatively uncommon, many surgeons and cardiologists refer patients to specialty centers such as Loyola. Loyola's aortic clinic treats patients from Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa. Patients have come from as far away as Florida and Arizona.
The clinic is a collaborative effort. Schwartz, for model, specializes in open pectus surgery, patch Tuchek has helped pioneer the use of thoracic aortic stent grafts.
"My vision is that patients with aortic disease receive comprehensive, multi-specialty charge for this unique stipulation," Schwartz said.
Tuchek is a leading enroller in a second multi-center clinical trial run of the new stent graft, which is made by Medtronic, and he is a consultant to the company.
Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, Loyola University Health System is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and 22 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center of attention campus is conveniently placed in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 570-licensed bed adroitness. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald� Children?s Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as comfortably as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Health & Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb campus in Melrose Park includes the 250-bed community hospital, the Gottlieb Health & Fitness Center and the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Care Center.
Source: Jim Ritter
Loyola University Health System
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Saturday 23 August 2008
Alicia Keys Joins Coldplay On Stage
Alicia Keys and Coldplay collaborated on stage at a festival this week, with the R&B isaac Merrit Singer playing
Wednesday 13 August 2008
Download Hexstatic
 Artist: Hexstatic: mp3 download Genre(s): Industrial Rock Discography:  When Robots Go Bad Year: 2007 Tracks: 13  Master-View Year: 2004 Tracks: 11  Rewind (NTONE43) Year: 2000 Tracks: 13 Though they're best known in the music cosmos as the award-winning ocular arm of sound transcription cut-and-paste experts Coldcut, Hexstatic (previously Hex) has unordered depressed the barriers 'tween music, multimedia system, and computers ever so since they created the low gearing computer-generated pop up video (Coldcut's Christmas Break) in 1990. Graphic design artists Robert Pepperell and Miles Visman formed Hex along with Coldcut's Matt Black and Jonathan More. While on the problem on videos for artists including Kevin Saunderson, Queen Latifah, and Spiritualized, Hex programmed a video game (High Banana) in 1991 and inaugurated a series of multimedia system system CD-ROMs just unitary year later with Global Chaos CDTV, which united music, artwork, and icon games into one mathematical product. A series of successors (Escapism, Global Chaos, and Digital Love) preceded the passing of 1994's AntiStatic, some other CD-ROM at the same time released on CD and vinyl by Coldcut's NTone Records. (Heights Banana) in 1991 and inaugurated a series of multimedia system CD-ROMs just one year later with Global Chaos CDTV, which united music, graphics, and picture games into one mathematical product. A series of successors (Escapism, Global Chaos, and Digital Love) preceded the passing of 1994's AntiStatic, some other CD-ROM at the same time released on CD and vinyl by Coldcut's NTone Records. Throughout the '90s, Hex attended Black and More's live performances with visuals, and Pepperell likewise developed the CD-ROM fortune of Coldcut's 1997 LP, Rent Us Play, plus the package used during the macrocosm tour. Though Pepperell and Visman later left hand Hex, sweet roue came in the form of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson. Their low work for Coldcut, the Timber video, won awards for its innovative exercise of repetitive picture clips synced to the music. In 2000, they released Rewind, their possess album for NTone. Obviously a digital-edge passing, the two-disc set combined CD-ROM and DVD capabilities to a fully synchronised music picture liberation. In 2003, Hexstatic contributed a second base mass to Coldcut's turntablist combine series Solid Steel, Listen & Learn. Master-View from 2004 was another multimedia system package, this time featuring one CD and one DVD. Their 2007 endeavor When Robots Go Bad featured client vocalists Ema J, Sabirajade, and MC Profisee. |
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Thursday 26 June 2008
Johnny Depp - Surprise Guest Depp Steals The Show At The Mtv Movie Awards
JOHNNY DEPP stole the show at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night (1Jun08) picking up two prizes and sending Hollywood's female contingent into a frenzy.
Shy Depp was a surprise guest at the bash, shocking even A listers in the audience when he appeared onstage to collect his awards for Best Comedic Performance, for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie and Best Villain for Sweeney Todd. Lindsay Lohan jumped to her feet; while Juno Oscar winner DIablo Cody swooned when the cameras fixed on her.
Depp expressed his surprise to win a comedy award, telling the crowd, "I'm not really sure how this happened. You can ask anyone, I'm not a very funny person."
Elsewhere, Adam Sandler picked up a Generation award from Tom Cruise and treated the audience at Universal City, California's Gibson Amphitheatre to an impressive rendition of Carly Simon's Nobody Does it Better.
There were also awards for Will Smith, Zac Efron, Iron Man and Transformers.
The full list of winners is as follows:
Best Female Performance - Ellen Page in Juno
Best Male Performance - Will Smith in I Am Legend
Best Movie - Transformers
Best Summer Movie So Far - Iron Man
Breakthrough Performance - Zac Efron in Hairspray
Best Fight - Sean Faris and Cam Gigandet in Never Back Down
Best Comedic Performance - Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean:
Best Villain - Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd
Best Kiss - Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman in Step Up.
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Stephane Grappelli
Artist: Stephane Grappelli
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Fine and Dandy
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
It Might As Well Be Swing
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
All Of Me
Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
Stephanova
Year: 1983
Tracks: 12
Plays Cole Porter
Year: 1976
Tracks: 12
Shades of Django
Year: 1975
Tracks: 13
Parisian Thoroughfare
Year: 1973
Tracks: 11
I Hear Music
Year: 1971
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Afternoon in Paris
Year: 1971
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Live at the Blue Note
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One of the all-time great idle words violinists (ranking with Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith as one of the large trine of pre-bop), Stéphane Grappelli's longevity and systematically enthusiastic playing did a with child deal to establish the fiddle as a jazz instrument. He was in the beginning self-taught as both a fiddler and a pianist, although during 1924-28 he studied at the Paris Conservatoire. Grappelli played in pic theaters and dance bands earlier meeting guitar player Django Reinhardt in 1933. They hit it off musically from the begin tied though their lifestyles (Grappelli was sophisticated piece Django was a romany) were selfsame different. Together as Quintet of the Hot Club of France (comprised of violin, trey acoustic guitars and bass) during 1933-39 they produced a sensory series of recordings and performances. During a London troth in 1939, World War II skint out. Reinhardt headlong distinct to render to France just Grappelli stayed in England, effectively closing the grouping. The violinist soon teamed up with the young pianist George Shearing in a new band that worked steadily through the war. In 1946, Grappelli and Reinhardt had the first gear of several reunions although they ne'er worked together over again on a regular basis (despite many new recordings). Grappelli performed passim the fifties and '60s in clubs end-to-end Europe and, other than recordings with Duke Ellington (Violin Summit) and Joe Venuti, he remained reasonably isolated in the U.S. until he began regularly touring the world in the early '70s. Since so Grappelli has been a constant traveler and a consistent poll-winner, left very open-minded without altering his sweep style; he has recorded with David Grisman, Earl Hines, Bill Coleman, Larry Coryell, Oscar Peterson, Jean Luc Ponty and McCoy Tyner among many others. Active up until nigh the end, the more and more frail Grappelli remained at the top of his field regular when he was 89. His early recordings are all available on Classics CDs and he recorded quite extensively during his last trine decades.
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