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) – Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are prescribed statin therapy for hypercholesterolemia or ischemic heart disease are at increased risk of death from…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cigarette smoking enhanced the effects of clopidogrel in a study of diabetics with coronary artery disease. Accordingly, smokers were less likely to experience…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Real-world outcomes among patients with stable coronary disease favor percutaneous coronary intervention over routine medical care alone, according to data maintained by the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Transplacental sotalol, alone or in combination with digoxin, is effective for the treatment of fetal supraventricular tachyarrhythmia (SVT) and atrial flutter, with rapid…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Administration of epinephrine or vasopressin to patients in cardiac arrest improves short-term survival, but has no benefit over the longer term, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients undergoing invasive coronary angiography or PCI with the use of low-osmolar contrast media (LOCM), adverse outcomes are uncommon with no advantage…
In the past 6 months, cocoa research has reached the tipping point. A 2011 Harvard meta-analysis by Dr. Eric Ding and published in the Journal of Nutrition with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) was superior to a bare-metal stent (BMS) in a group of unselected patients who had primary percutaneous coronary intervention…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For treatment of femoropopliteal artery disease, angioplasty using a paclitaxel-eluting balloon (PEB) is associated with a high sustained patency rate and a low…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with ST-elevation MI undergoing fibrinolysis followed by immediate or late invasive procedures do just as well with unfractionated heparin (UHF) or with…
