Prolonged stay at an acute-care hospital in Israel among older adults awaiting transfer to post-acute care: retrospective study on risk factors and consequences.

Background: Older adults frequently experience deconditioning following acute illnesses and require discharge from acute-care facilities to post-acute care facilities, which are limited. Our study aimed to explore predictors and outcomes associated with elongated length of stay (LOS) among older adults awaiting discharge to skilled nursing facility (SNF).

Methods: Retrospective cohort study was conducted at Shamir Medical Center, Israel, among adults (> 65 years) eligible for SNF.

Electromagnetic field at 15.95-16 Hz is cardio protective following acute myocardial infarction.

Previous studies have shown that pre-exposure of the heart to weak magnetic field reduces infarct size shortly after induction of myocardial ischemia. To investigate the role of AC magnetic field with a frequency of 15.95-16 Hz and 80 mT on left ventricular (LV) remodeling following chronic coronary occlusion and a short episode of ischemia followed by reperfusion (I/R).

Safety of nitrate withdrawal in angina-free and hemodynamically stable patients with coronary artery disease.

Study Objectives: To assess the consequences of nitrate withdrawal in angina-free and hemodynamically stable coronary patients.

Design: Prospective, open, intervention study.

Setting: Cardiology outpatient clinic of a university-affiliated municipal hospital.

Ultrasound angioplasty: an update review.

The use of therapeutic ultrasound to treat atherosclerosis and thrombosis has been appreciated for decades. However, it was only the explosive growth of angioplasty in the 1980s that brought real momentum to the development of therapeutic catheter ultrasound. The idea behind this technique was that ultrasound, by its bioselectivity, might provide a solution to some of the shortcomings of balloon angioplasty.

Accelerated intimal thickening in carotid arteries of balloon-injured rats after immunization against heat shock protein 70.

Objectives: The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that induction of an immune response to heat shock protein (Hsp) 70 would increase intimal thickening in a rat carotid-injury model.

Background: Restenosis resulting from intimal thickening poses a major limitation to the long-term success of coronary angioplasty. Several studies have proposed that infectious agents increase restenosis.