Sentence examples for ischaemia from inspiring English sources

Physiome's virtual heart allows drug companies to test the effects of their compounds electronically before they try them on real people and even to do experiments that would be unacceptable in the material world.Dr Noble and Dr Winslow, for instance, have been studying how the cellular changes that lead to congestive heart failure and ischaemia (two common heart complaints) can cause arrhythmia.

Meldonium is used to treat ischaemia: a lack of blood flow to parts of the body, particularly in cases of angina or heart failure.

Thus, one must assume that no changes attributable to myocardial ischaemia were actually found at autopsy.

In rightly asking the tough questions of Sharapova and the scores of other athletes likely to be busted for a hitherto little-known drug used to treat ischaemia in the coming weeks, and of those who have already moved on to exploit the next substance that lives in the grey area between what is banned and what is ethical, we might also have to ask some tough questions of ourselves.

The latest Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project, a monitoring programme in Britain, shows that 8% of patients with a heart attack now die within 30 days of admission to hospital, compared with over 12% in 2004.For heart failure, however, things have remained largely unchanged since the 1970s.