Study shows more liquid reduces relapse risk after stroke / publication in the "Journal of the Neurological Sciences"

"And please remember: always drink a lot." Hardly a doctor's visit, in which this advice is missing. underpinned Scientifically it is hardly. A testament to the benefits, based on pre-damaged patients, provides the doctoral thesis of Sabine mosquito which she wrote at the Medical Faculty of the University of Münster. The results are now published in the "Journal of the Neurological Sciences". The central finding: Those who already have a stroke - colloquially: stroke - has suffered, should actually drink a lot, because that reduces the risk of relapse.

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How the Viagra active ingredient Sildenafil can alleviate heart problems, researchers from Bochum report in cooperation with colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota) in the journal Circulation. They looked at dogs with diastolic heart failure, in which the heart chamber did not fill up enough with blood. The scientists showed that sildenafil makes stiffened heart walls elastic again. The drug activates an enzyme that causes the giant protein titin to relax in the heart muscle cells.

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The thalamus is the central switching point in the brain: With specially trained nerve cells (neurons) it receives the information from the sensory organs, processes it and forwards it. Researchers at the Institute for Toxicology and Genetics (ITG) at KIT have identified the genetic factors Lhx2 and Lhx9 responsible for the development of these neurons. The results contribute significantly to understanding the development of the thalamus. In the long term, they should help to enable a cure after a stroke.

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Cardiac arrhythmias can be extremely uncomfortable and in the worst case even life-threatening. In many cases, new treatment methods not only bring an improvement, but even the chance of a cure. This is what Prof. Dr. J. Christoph Geller (Bad Berka).

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Heart report documents above-average mortality rate for citizens in the new federal states; Increase in cardiac surgeries in children; critical look at catheter-supported aortic valve implantation

In the new federal states, significantly more people continue to die of heart disease than the national average. This is one of the findings of the current Bruckenberg Heart Report, which has been documenting the latest figures and developments in the fields of heart surgery and cardiology every year since 1989. Other trends that emerged from the report presented last week in Berlin are the increase in patients with heart valve disease and an overall unchanged number of cardiac surgery interventions in 2010.

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Scientists and doctors from Bremen, Göttingen, Hanover and the USA prove the protective effect of erythropoietin (EPO) / results published in the specialist journal "Molecular Medicine"

Many know the name from professional sport, where erythropoietin (EPO) is abused to improve performance. Scientists have now shown that EPO can help reduce the consequences of the disease and protect nerve tissue in a certain group of stroke patients. The University of Bremen (Prof. Manfred Herrmann) and the Bremen Neurological Clinic (Prof. Andreas Kastrup) are involved in the international and interdisciplinary study, which was led by scientists led by Professor Hannelore Ehrenreich at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen , the University of Hanover (Prof. Karin Weissenborn) and the US biotechnology company Banyan Biomarkers (Dr. Andreas Jeromin) are involved. The results of the study have now been published in the renowned specialist journal "Molecular Medicine".

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From the Autumn Meeting of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) in Dusseldorf

No correlation between the cardiac mortality and psychosocial factors such as anxiety and depression levels, quality of life and subjective deterioration of living conditions, researchers found after they examined 143 heart attack patients in central Germany. They wanted to explore the question of whether perhaps psychosocial aspects of this are responsible that in southern Saxony-Anhalt is the highest mortality in acute myocardial infarction within Germany. In this region it came after the fall of the social decline of large populations.

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Charité researchers can predict the risk of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias

The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the University of Leiden have developed a method to identify those among heart attack patients who are particularly at risk of sudden cardiac death. With cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cardiac MRI), you can determine the extent of the cardiac muscle damage after an infarction and deduce the risk of life-threatening complications from this. The results have now been published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology *.

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Researchers at the University of Sydney have found that successfully treated sleep apnea patients have lower blood lipid levels and a lower risk of heart attack than people who are not treated.

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Changes in the calcium (Ca2 +) balance in heart and vascular cells are often the cause of cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure or heart failure. How this dangerous increase in the calcium content in heart cells comes about has now been clarified for the first time by scientists from the Karl Franzens University of Graz in cooperation with colleagues from the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Linz. The research results, which were published on June 6, 2011 in the online edition of the renowned journal PNAS, promise the development of new therapies for heart disease.

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Drugs that lower blood cholesterol - have been shown to protect against heart attacks and strokes. However, they can increase the risk of further bleeding in the brain in patients who have already had a cerebral haemorrhage. The German Stroke Society (DSG) points this out in a current publication. Statins are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in the world. "Many clinical studies have clearly shown that statins reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease in people with high cholesterol levels or other risk constellations," reports Professor Dr. med. Matthias Endres, third chairman of the DSG and head of the Clinic for Neurology and the Center for Stroke Research at the Berlin Charité. This protective effect also applies to the majority of strokes that are triggered by a blocked blood vessel in the brain (ischemic cerebral infarction). Statins are therefore already used in routine treatment in all of these patients.

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