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Engineering by Scientists on Embryo Stirs Criticism
New York Times, United States -
... to be viable,? said Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital. ...
Genetically modified human embryo stirs criticism The Associated Press
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Hot And Bothered!
Medical News Today (press release), UK - May 11, 2008
Dr. Jay Lemery, director of the Wilderness and Environmental Medicine Division of the Department of Emergency Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell ...
Innovative Leader in Advancing Transplant Medicine Appointed Chief ...
Cornell Chronicle, NY - Apr 14, 2008
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and its medical partner The Rogosin Institute have nearly tripled the annual number of transplants performed over the ...
Exercising in the City? Don't Get Exhaust-ed; Take It Inside
Newswise (press release) - May 9, 2008
Dr. Ronald Crystal, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, says that air pollution is ...
Don't Get Burned! Newswise (press release)
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What People Should Know When Enrolling In Clinical Trials
Medical News Today (press release), UK - Apr 18, 2008
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell provides state-of-the-art inpatient, ambulatory and preventive care in all areas of medicine, and is committed to ...
Lindsay Norris, Ryan Lally
New York Times, United States - May 3, 2008
In June, she is to become an intern in internal medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital. She graduated from Princeton. ...

New York Times
Stephen Weiss, Benefactor to Cornell, Is Dead at 72
New York Times, United States - Apr 21, 2008
... of Cornell University as a donor and a trustee, died on Wednesday at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital in Manhattan, a Cornell affiliate. ...
International Authority on Advanced Laparoscopic Surgical ...
Cornell Chronicle, NY - Apr 14, 2008
Since joining NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell in 2003, Dr. Pomp has been named co-director of the Columbia/Cornell Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship, ...

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Comparison of Positive Pressure Gloves on Hand Use in Uninjured Persons. -
KA O'Brien, G Weinstock-Zlotnick, J Sanchez, D … - Journal of Burn Care & Research, 2005 - burncarerehab.com
... From the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, William Randolph Hearst Burn Center,
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York. ...

Caregiving time in sickle cell disease: psychological effects in maternal caregivers -
JT Moskowitz, E Butensky, P Harmatz, E Vichinsky, … - Pediatr Blood Cancer, 2007 - doi.wiley.com
... California San Francisco Children?s Hospital,and NewYork-Presbyterian: Weill
CornellMedical Center ... 2 from New York- Presbyterian: Weill Cornell Medical Center ...

Radiolabeled J591 Antibody Delivers Lethal Hit to Advanced Prostate Cancers in a Phase I Trial -
WS El-Deiry - landesbioscience.com
... This multi-center trial will be led by NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell along
with NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. ...
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Radiolabeled Tositumomab plus Fludarabine show high CR rate in Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma -
WS El-Deiry - landesbioscience.com
... the study's principal author Dr. John P. Leonard, Clinical Director of the Center
for Lymphoma and Myeloma at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, and Associate ...
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Surgery or Prosthesis? Treatment Options for Head and Neck Cancer Robyn DeSantis Ringler, RN, Esq.
C Failure - community.nursingspectrum.com
... Esther Blumstein, MA, CCC-SLP, a speech/language pathologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/
Weill Cornell Medical Center, says that losing the ability to speak is ...

Comparison of Positive Pressure Gloves on Hand Function in Adults With Burns. -
KA O'Brien, G Weinstock-Zlotnick, H Hunter, RW … - Journal of Burn Care & Research, 2006 - burncareresearch.com
... From the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, William Randolph Hearst Burn Center,
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York. ...

Therapeutic Efficacy of a Therapeutic Cooking Group from the Patients? Perspective -
KH Hill, KAOB COTA, RWY DPT - Journal of Burn Care & Research - burncareresearch.org
... From the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, William Randolph Hearst Burn Center,
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York. ...

Burn Disaster Response Planning: An Urban Region's Approach. -
RW Yurt, EJ Lazar, NE Leahy, NV Cagliuso Sr, AC … - Journal of Burn Care & Research, 2008 - burncareresearch.com
... From the *NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center;
?NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System; ?St. Barnabas Hospital ...

Burn Disaster Response Planning: An Urban Region?s Approach
V Akkapeddi, A Cooper, A Dajer, DW Mozingo - Journal of Burn Care & Research - burncareresearch.org
... From the *NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center;
?NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System; ?St. Barnabas Hospital ...
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Exercise Testing May Help Predict Seriousness of Mitral Regurgitation

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Study Identifies Cases That Necessitate Surgery

NEW YORK (Dec. 11, 2007) — In as many as one in five people over age 55, when the heart contracts to send blood around the body, some degree of backward leakage occurs across the mitral valve, a condition known as mitral regurgitation (MR). When sufficiently severe, MR causes buildup of blood in the lungs, leading to difficulty in breathing (dyspnea, or "shortness of breath"), a serious condition called congestive heart failure. MR also can cause heart rhythm irregularities (arrhythmias) such as atrial fibrillation, which can lead to strokes and other problems, and ventricular tachycardia, which can cause sudden death.

A new study finds that monitoring the capacity of these patients to exercise on a treadmill—an evaluation called exercise tolerance testing (ETT)—may be useful in predicting the condition's progression and whether the patient will need surgery. Led by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, the research is published in the American Journal of Cardiology.

"Mitral regurgitation can be very benign, going unnoticed for many years, or can be severe, impeding the heart's proper function and leading to complications, even death. There are few accurate ways to predict the seriousness of a single case, and these methods require fairly sophisticated and expensive imaging. Our study shows that exercise tolerance testing, a simple procedure often performed in doctors' offices, is an excellent tool for predicting if the patient is deteriorating and needs surgery," says Dr. Jeffrey S. Borer, a study co-author ; director of the Howard Gilman Institute for Valvular Heart Diseases at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell; and the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and professor of cardiovascular medicine in cardiothoracic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College.
"We found that exercise testing is a simple and relatively inexpensive way to predict outcomes. Patients with mitral regurgitation who perform well on the treadmill will likely remain healthy and not have to undergo further testing for a number of years. This gives these patients peace of mind," says principal investigator Dr. Phyllis G. Supino, associate research professor of public health in medicine and associate research professor of public health at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Developed in its most simple form in the 1920s, exercise tolerance testing (ETT) is used commonly to assess the progression of coronary artery disease and the severity of aortic stenosis.

In mitral regurgitation, the mitral valve does not close completely, as it should, when the heart contracts, allowing blood to flow backward instead of forward, limiting blood flow to the body. Symptoms include shortness of breath, fatigue, cough, heart palpitations, swollen feet or ankles, and excessive urination. A characteristic heart murmur can be heard with a stethoscope.

In the current study, researchers followed 38 patients with chronic severe nonischemic MR (that is, MR not due to a prior heart attack) for an average of seven years. All underwent ETT at study entry. Patients who could continue exercising for 15 minutes or longer (of a maximum total of 18 minutes) had a fivefold lower annual risk of developing heart failure or other evidence of severe heart dysfunction necessitating surgery, compared to patients who were unable to exercise for that length of time.

In patients with chronic severe nonischemic MR, progression to surgical indications generally is rapid. There are two surgical options for the treatment of MR: mitral valve replacement and mitral valve repair.

The study was co-led by Dr. Borer and Dr. Supino. Co-authors included Drs. Clare Hochreiter, Paul Kligfield, Edmund M. Herrold and Jacek J. Preibisz—all of Weill Cornell Medical College; Dr. Anuj Gupta, now at Columbia; and Dr. Karlheinz Schuleri, now at Johns Hopkins University.

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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center


NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, located in New York City, is one of the leading academic medical centers in the world, comprising the teaching hospital NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medical College, the medical school of Cornell University. NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell provides state-of-the-art inpatient, ambulatory and preventive care in all areas of medicine, and is committed to excellence in patient care, education, research and community service. Weill Cornell physician-scientists have been responsible for many medical advances—from the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer to the synthesis of penicillin, the first successful embryo-biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., the first clinical trial for gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, the first indication of bone marrow's critical role in tumor growth, and, most recently, the world's first successful use of deep brain stimulation to treat a minimally conscious brain-injured patient. NewYork-Presbyterian, which is ranked sixth on the U.S.News & World Report's list of top hospitals, also comprises NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/The Allen Pavilion. Weill Cornell Medical College is the first U.S. medical college to offer a medical degree overseas and maintains a strong global presence in Austria, Brazil, Haiti, Tanzania, Turkey and Qatar. For more information, visit www.nyp.org and www.med.cornell.edu.

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