Daniel R. Schimmel, MD, explains how balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) uses balloons and specialized catheters to open narrowed vessels in the lungs to improve circulation and reduce symptoms…
Nick Norwitz interviews Aseem Malhotra, MD, a consultant cardiologist, on controversial new findings challenging LDL cholesterol’s role as an independent risk factor for heart disease. They discuss data…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Confirming recommendations, titrating beta-blocker dosage in ambulatory patients with heart failure up to an equivalent of 50 mg/d carvedilol reduces all-cause deaths and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite the supposed advantage of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting for elderly patients with ischemic heart disease, a Danish study found no significant…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) performed via the transradial approach is less apt to cause bleeding and transfusions compared with PCI performed via the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Blood pressure lowering provides protection against intracranial bleeding in patients with cerebrovascular disease, including those on antithrombotic therapy, according to results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a new meta-analysis indicate that for patients with atrial fibrillation, treatment with one of the new oral anticoagulants rather than warfarin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients on maintenance prasugrel (Effient) therapy having percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a dose of 60 mg in the peri-PCI period achieves “faster…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Depending on the treatment they received, survivors of childhood cancer may require long-term follow-up because of an elevated risk of symptomatic cardiac events,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with atrial fibrillation and previous GI ulcers, a higher risk of major bleeding with oral anticoagulation is balanced out by a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Daily low-dose aspirin reduces not only cardiovascular mortality but also nonvascular mortality – and cancer mortality in particular — after relatively short duration…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The clinical spectrum of intracranial hemorrhage was similar in patients treated with warfarin or dabigatran in the pivotal RE-LY trial, a new analysis…
