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) – Three cardiologists from China say intracoronary administration of a glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitor (GPI) “can be recommended as a preferred regimen” during primary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Discontinuation of aspirin within 5 days of combined coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and valve surgery is associated with an increased risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – N-acetylcysteine is increasingly used to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) but it is not effective, according to a paper in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Percutaneous placement of a sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) is a safe and effective way to address either bare-metal (BMS) or drug-eluting (DES) in-stent restenosis,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients on beta-blockers who undergo surgery are nearly twice as likely to experience adverse events in the following months if beta-blockers are discontinued,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy started 10 days or more after onset of Kawasaki disease (KD) suppresses inflammation but does not prevent coronary artery lesions,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The rate of radial artery occlusion after transradial catheterization increases with the size of arterial sheath used for the procedure, according to data…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There is no solid evidence that drug-eluting stents (compared to bare-metal stents) increase the risk for stent thrombosis, death or myocardial infarction in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Contrary to traditional thinking, endarterectomy for carotid stenosis can be performed safely in patients with a history of cervical radiation therapy, and carotid…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A direct comparison of four agents as monotherapy in drug-naive patients with type 2 diabetes shows that exenatide once-weekly, metformin, and pioglitazone provide…
