Study: The detection of the virus in apersonin Singaporewho didn't have pneumoniasuggested that non-pneumonic and subclinicalinfections are possible. Blood samples from 400 healthy individualscollected during last year's SARS epidemic inHong Kongwere thereforechecked and 4 tested positive for the SARS virus.
The study found this guidewire system can navigate blocked coronary arteries, burn through dense scar tissue and reestablish blood flow through severely obstructed arteries.
The technique was used on 27 people complex blockages that had blocked standard guidewires. The blockages averaged 22 millimeters in length and were an average of two years old.
"These were long lesions, they were difficult lesions, and all of them had already been unsuccessfully attempted by conventional means," researcher Dr. Angela Hoye, a clinical fellow in interventional cardiology at Thoraxcenter in Rotterdam, said in a prepared statement.
