NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Statin therapy before and during acute ischemic stroke hospitalization is associated with improved poststroke survival, and going off statin therapy in the hospital…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to some previous results, intracoronary administration of a bolus of adenosine before elective percutaneous coronary intervention does not reduce periprocedural myocardial necrosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with concomitant cardiac disease requiring surgery and symptomatic carotid artery disease, carotid artery stenting before surgery yields favorable outcomes, a Dutch…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Insulin resistance shows no significant association with an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, researchers report in an October 14th on-line paper in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Diuretic use is associated with an increased incidence of gout, an association mediated by increases in serum urate levels, according to findings published…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For stable patients with left main coronary artery disease, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a “reasonable” alternative to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic coronary artery disease, prasugrel overcomes high on-clopidogrel platelet reactivity more effectively than doubling the dose of clopidogrel, results of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More intensive blood glucose lowering won’t reduce the risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes, and when achieved with a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prasugrel helps stop thrombotic events in patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), but associated “nuisance” bleeding may prompt discontinuation of such therapy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair using the MitraClip device can be safely performed even in very high risk patients, researchers from Germany report…