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) – Isolated quadriceps training improves muscle structure and oxygen utilization in patients with chronic heart failure, thereby improving exercise tolerance, an Italian team reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Danish study indicates that among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, the use of zotarolimus-eluting stents (ZESs) rather than sirolimus-eluting stents (SESs) is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Administering acetylcysteine to patients before and after they undergo coronary or peripheral angiography does not reduce the occurrence of contrast-induced nephropathy, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The likelihood of refractory ischemia developing in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome is reduced if they undergo early rather than deferred…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) prasugrel shows the most favorable benefit-to-risk ratio in the core group of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABC) to augment blood flow before and for 12 hours after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) does not reduce infarct size…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Beta-blockers improve all-cause mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and heart failure, according to a report in the September 6th Journal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In low-risk women, exercise treadmill testing (ETT) gives similar results to exercise myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and is less expensive, researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantation of cardiac implantable electrophysiological devices (CIED) is associated with increasing rates of complications and mortality, according to results of 3 studies published…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with chronic internal carotid artery occlusion who successfully undergo carotid artery stenting show improvement in global cognitive function, Taiwanese researchers report in…
