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) – In patients with heart failure requiring cardiac resynchronization therapy and coexistent atrial fibrillation, AV nodal ablation (AVNA) reduces mortality and improves NYHA functional…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In the PRIMO trial, treatment with vitamin D2 (paricalcitol) did not improve measures of cardiac structure, function or left ventricular mass in patients…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most domains of health-related quality of life in iron-deficient patients with chronic heart failure improve significantly after 4 weeks of treatment with intravenous…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In a controlled study, clinicians didn’t see any benefit to treating patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) early (as soon as mild PDA symptoms appear)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Dual rather than mono antiplatelet therapy started soon after ischemic stroke reduces the risk of recurrence without a significant increase in risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing radiofrequency catheter ablation, complication risks are higher with use of dabigatran for anticoagulation compared with uninterrupted warfarin,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Late lumen loss at 6 months is smaller with the Cre8 amphilimus-eluting stent than the Taxus paclitaxel-eluting stent in de novo percutaneous coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The benefits of preemptive percutaneous mitral commissurotomy (PMC) in asymptomatic patients with moderate mitral stenosis appear to outweigh the inherent risks of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN), volume supplementation with sodium chloride 0.9% for 24 hours was more effective than a 7-hour regimen of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A proximal balloon occlusion device provided better protection against cerebral emboli than a filter device during coronary artery stenting (CAS) in the first…
