Predicting Heart Attacks!? The CardioMPO

Teri16

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Posted 7/3/2005 4:28 PM (GMT 0)

" PrognostiX, a start-up company based on Cleveland Clinic technology, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin selling a diagnostic test capable of identifying patients who are in imminent danger of heart attack or death."

"The CardioMPO test will be available for the benefit of physicians and patients in August 2005."

http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20050606/CLM06706062005-1.html

LibbyG

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Posted 7/8/2005 6:19 AM (GMT 0)

hi teri,

don't make me read further (yet!), can you sum up the prognostix test for us? that sounds mighty interesting!

libby

Teri16

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Posted 7/10/2005 4:27 AM (GMT 0)

Libby, this will be wonderful! Hugs, Teri

"CardioMPO measures the level of myeloperoxidase (MPO), a disease-fighting enzyme, in the bloodstream. Researchers at The Cleveland Clinic have found that among patients complaining of chest pain or discomfort, an elevated MPO level in blood can signal a person's near-term risk for having a heart attack, needing bypass surgery or angioplasty, and even their risk for cardiac death, within months."

http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20050606/CLM06706062005-1.html

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