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) – For patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (nSTE-ACS), long-term outcomes are no different whether they undergo angiography, and revascularization if indicated, within…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding trimetazidine to the treatment of chronic heart failure improves cardiac function and slows left ventricular remodeling, according to the results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There is no need to avoid proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in patients on the platelet inhibitors clopidogrel or ticagrelor. The increased rates of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data from the German drug-eluting stent (DES.DE) Registry provide no evidence of the “obesity paradox” in the setting of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving statins before a surgery lowers the risk of heart attack in statin-naïve patients, according to a new meta-analysis. The drugs also reduced…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Systematic collection of extensive family history can improve the risk assessment of cardiovascular disease in primary care, according to a report in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Newer generation everolimus-eluting stents (EES) are significantly less likely to prompt very late stent thrombosis than are the first generation of drug-eluting stents…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The everolimus-eluting stent and the sirolimus-eluting stent are equally safe and efficacious in patients with coronary artery disease, the SORT OUT IV Trial…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term clinical outcomes of percutaneous intervention of complex coronary bifurcation lesions are significantly better when the procedure is performed with adjunctive intravascular ultrasound…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intracoronary artery infusion of autologous stem cells after primary PCI or thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction improves left ventricular ejection fraction and left…
