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) – Direct stent implantation without balloon dilatation can be safely performed in some patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevated MI (STEMI), and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pretreatment with a 600-mg versus a standard 300-mg loading dose of clopidogrel in the setting of urgent percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevated…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Thrombosis occurs in about one in 10 children undergoing cardiac surgery cases, with serious complications in over a quarter of those cases, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among children receiving anthracycline-based chemotherapy, echocardiograms obtained before and during treatment rarely detect significant cardiotoxicity that changes treatment decisions, reports a team with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a meta-analysis of randomized trials indicate that percutaneous coronary intervention for left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease is associated with less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Most patients with allergic reactions to clopidogrel do not need to stop the drug or switch to another antiplatelet drug but rather can…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A simple ultrasound examination of the femoral artery puncture site before elective percutaneous coronary intervention decreases the rate of subsequent vascular complications, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension with more than one class of pulmonary vasodilator does not decrease mortality or slow progression of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Continuing bivalirudin for 4 hours after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) facilitates early microvascular reperfusion without an…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If patients presenting with chest pain have undetectable levels of troponin when tested using a high-sensitivity assay, they almost certainly do not have…
