Reversing Heart Damage
From Reuters:BOSTON (Reuters) - A device that helps severely damaged hearts pump may be able to do what was once thought impossible -- reverse heart failure in people who are weeks away from death, British researchers reported on Wednesday.
The left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, can boost the heart's ability to function, allowing it to recover if used with the right drugs, the researchers said in a study.
Meanwhile, a second study found that statin drugs, already found to lower the risk of heart attack, stroke and other heart conditions, reduced the rate of death from heart failure by 24 percent.
The studies, published in this week's issues of the
New England Journal of Medicine and the
Journal of the American Medical Association, bring new hope for heart failure -- one of the most devastating chronic heart conditions.
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