NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients make sequential position changes during colonoscopy examinations, instead of remaining in the left lateral position, the improvement in luminal distension leads…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with severe aortic stenosis and reduced left ventricular systolic function may do better with transcatheter implantation of a prosthetic aortic valve than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Very elderly patients, perhaps up to 100 years old, with acute ischemic stroke benefit from timely thrombolytic therapy to the same degree as…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of in vitro testing indicate that silver impregnation of urinary catheters has little effect on bacterial adherence, reinforcing findings from clinical studies…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients who develop acute renal failure (ARF) after undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting have a poorer prognosis if the condition doesn’t resolve within…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The patency of saphenous veins used for coronary artery bypass grafting is better in the 3 months after the operation when patients are…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Stent fractures are not always associated with clinical sequelae, but they do increase the likelihood of in-stent restenosis (ISR) and target lesion revascularization…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) used to prevent sudden cardiac death in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction significantly improve survival in younger patients, but…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding midazolam to ketamine for emergency department sedation in adults reduces the occurrence of agitation during recovery, investigators report in the Annals of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rosuvastatin halves the rate of primary cardiovascular events in patients who have a high global cardiovascular risk profile, according to a post hoc…