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 presenting with chest pain, troponin I levels measured on admission and at 3 hours reliably rule out or rule in acute…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Analysis of the ST segment on the fetal electrocardiogram combined with conventional cardiotocography during intrapartum monitoring reduces the rate of operative vaginal deliveries…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Overall outcomes of drug-eluting coronary stent (DES) implantation are statistically no worse with 6 months of dual antiplatelet therapy than with 12 months,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Pooled data from four relatively small but high-quality prospective randomized controlled studies suggest an advantage to intracoronary (IC) over intravenous (IV) administration of abciximab…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – About 1 in 7 patients 60 years of age or older with heart failure undergoing intensive medical therapy have hyperkalemia, and one risk…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Lowering blood pressure in patients with prehypertensive blood pressure significantly reduces the risk of stroke, according the results of a meta-analysis reported in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Performing percutaneous coronary interventions for coronary artery disease is feasible before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), and the strategy appears safe, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a dose-ranging study indicate that a medium dose of sildenafil given for 16 weeks improves peak oxygen consumption in children with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High-dose daptomycin appears to be a safe and effective therapeutic option for cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED)-related infective endocarditis due to staphylococci, clinicians…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of an updated meta-analysis indicate that there are no clinically relevant differences in efficacy or effectiveness among second-generation antidepressants used to treat…
