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) – Facilitated percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), with prehospital fibrinolysis, is no better than primary PCI for patients who are very early in the course…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) as a class do not appear to be associated with an increased malignancy risk in patients with diabetes,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) may not improve survival for patients in their 80s and 90s, according to a report in the June 2nd online…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The average of five or six blood pressure measurements are needed in order to classify patients with reasonable certainty as having blood pressure…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The benefit of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with heart failure depends on their QRS interval; CRT does not reduce adverse clinical…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing pulmonary vein isolation, the use of a multielectrode phased RF ablation catheter designed for the purpose appears…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The choice between carotid artery stenting (CAS) and carotid endarterectomy remains unclear for elderly patients at risk for ischemic stroke, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Analysis of data from the CREST study of carotid endarterectomy versus carotid stenting, shows that rates of elevated cardiac enzymes and of MI…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When asymptomatic patients with a supratherapeutic INR are seen in the emergency department, can they be treated as outpatients or should they be…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A review of available evidence indicates that colchicine given after cardiac surgery reduces the risk of developing post-pericardiotomy syndrome, or PPS. “The data…
