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) – 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) – Among low-risk patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention, 1-year outcomes are worse if their antiplatelet response to clopidogrel is low, an Italian team…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients being treated for acute coronary syndromes (ACS), the loading dose of ticagrelor has a stronger inhibitory effect on platelets than does…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Percutaneous revascularization of the left main coronary artery can be performed via the transradial approach, with success rates similar to transfemoral access, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients undergoing left atrial radiofrequency catheter ablation for treatment of paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation, the risk of symptomatic cerebral thromboembolism is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing pulmonary vein isolation by radiofrequency catheter ablation are less likely to have immediate recurrence of AF if they’re…