NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurements to angiography may improve survival and other outcomes for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease who undergo…
This minimally invasive procedure for the replacement of a defective aortic valve has many advantages over traditional open heart surgery. ~ Detroit Medical Center For more information on…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using a transradial rather than a transfemoral approach for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can reduce vascular access complications and shorten the hospital stay,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Alcohol septal ablation, an increasingly popular non-surgical treatment for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), does not appear to induce ventricular arrhythmias, new research suggests.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with symptomatic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, alcohol septal ablation results in sustained clinical and hemodynamic improvement, according to a prospective study spanning…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As initial therapy in patients with low-risk, stable coronary artery disease, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) added to medical therapy is more effective than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Randomized trials have shown a survival benefit to using drug-eluting stents (DES) rather than bare-metal stents (BMS) in heart disease patients. Now, the…
Jacob Robison, MD with the vascular surgery department at the Medical University of South Carolina covers two options for treating carotid artery stenosis and prevention of stroke. References…
Jacob G. Robison, MD, Professor, Vascular Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses drug-eluting stents. References and Resources Baker M, Uflacker R, Robison JG. Stent graft infection after…
Christopher D. Neilsen, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and alcohol septal ablation. References and Resources Marian AJ.…