NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of angiotensin blocking therapy before cardiac surgery is not associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF), researchers report in the August American…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In high-risk patients having percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI), bivalirudin was more effective than unfractionated heparin plus a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Major surgery often leads to transient thyroid hormone derangements. When it does, short-duration T3 therapy has no apparent benefit, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly patients with heart failure have an increasing mortality risk as their dose of furosemide increases, after taking into account multiple confounders, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Coronary heart disease that continues to progress to serious events in patients whose LDL levels have been brought down adequately — called “residual…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For diagnosing the cause of upper abdominal pain, upper endoscopy plus endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is at least as good as upper endoscopy and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with a finding of atypical glandular cells (AGC) on cervical cytology are more likely than those without AGC to have malignant breast…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Recommendations issued by the European Society of Cardiology emphasize the need to consider the clinical context in interpreting cardiac troponin readings in acute…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After induction chemoimmunotherapy in previously untreated symptomatic patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), consolidation therapy with the monoclonal anti-CD52 antibody alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) improved…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and biliary stent placement are more likely to develop pancreatitis after the procedure than those not requiring…