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) – Ventricular pauses associated with the use of ticagrelor don’t result in clinically significant bradycardia, according to a report in the May 10th Journal…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Scientific Statement issued by the American Heart Association notes that in the US, mean triglyceride levels have increased over the past 3…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Danish observational study provides no evidence that use of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) is associated with an increased risk of incident cancer…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions who receive high-dose statin treatment before the procedure have about half the rate of major adverse cardiac events…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vascular complication rates are higher with an antegrade rather than retrograde femoral approach to percutaneous endovascular procedures in the lower extremities, a Michigan…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – It is well established that sleep disordered breathing increases the risk of heart disease. It now appears that incident cardiovascular disease is associated…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with osteogenesis imperfecta face an increased risk of cardiovascular abnormalities, researchers from Norway report in the March American Heart Journal. Osteogenesis imperfecta…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drugs currently available for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) have no mortality benefit, according to a meta-analysis published in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding extra protein to enteral nutrition for critically ill children is safe and may help improve their protein metabolism, Spanish researchers report. Critically…
