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) – During transradial percutaneous coronary angiography, access through the left arm requires less fluoroscopy time and radiation dose than access through the right arm,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to bare metal stent implantation, patients with acute myocardial infarction and failed thrombolysis who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), do no better…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Standard echocardiography will confirm or exclude a patent foramen ovale (PFO) in most children, without the need for transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), clinicians from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drug-eluting stents (DES) seem to be safer and more effective than bare-metal stents in saphenous vein grafts (SVG), according to a systematic review…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a pilot study of patients undergoing on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), adding clopidogrel to aspirin did not reduce overall graft occlusion,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Acute hyperglycemia, even without diabetes, raises the risk of contrast-induced nephropathy and death in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing percutaneous coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The combination of aspirin and clopidogrel is no better than aspirin alone for preventing saphenous vein graft (SVG) intimal hyperplasia after coronary artery…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a prospective study, the beta-1 selective blocker bisoprolol proved more effective than the non-selective beta-blocker carvedilol in preventing atrial fibrillation after coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The mineralocorticoid receptor blocker eplerenone has advantages over spironolactone in the treatment of chronic heart failure (CHF), a Japanese team reports. In particular,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to growing concerns, the incidence of coronary artery aneurysms after implantation of drug-eluting stents is low, and when an aneurysm does occur…
