Join Michael Hochman, MD, MPH, for the second episode of Updates in Slow Medicine. This installment discusses results from a recent study that raises the possibility that a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Mitral isthmus ablation is a technically challenging procedure and acute subclinical circumflex ‘injury’ following the procedure “is not uncommon,” clinicians from the United…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When a defective systemic atrioventricular valve needs to be replaced in patients who have corrected transposition of the great arteries, it should be…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There’s now one more reason for statin loading before percutaneous coronary intervention. As well as reducing myocardial damage, high-dose atorvastatin given shortly before…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with acute MI undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, routine use of intravascular ultrasound to guide stent placement is not associated with better…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Many patients with acute MI have risk factors for shock, which increase the likelihood of adverse outcomes with early initiation of beta-blocker therapy,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions who receive high-dose statin treatment before the procedure have about half the rate of major adverse cardiac events…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vascular complication rates are higher with an antegrade rather than retrograde femoral approach to percutaneous endovascular procedures in the lower extremities, a Michigan…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study from Japan finds that sodium bicarbonate plus sodium chloride is more effective than sodium chloride alone for the prevention of contrast-induced…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After percutaneous coronary intervention via the femoral artery, use of arterial closure devices rather than manual compression reduces the rate of major bleeding…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Perioperative antibiotics started more than 24 hours before cardiac surgery may be more effective than shorter-duration prophylaxis in preventing sternal surgical site infections,…
