NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) restenosis may be better managed with balloon angioplasty using a paclitaxel-coated balloon (PEB) catheter rather than conventional balloon…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A “focused update” to existing guidelines on the management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) states that the recently approved oral direct thrombin…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Using paclitaxel-eluting stents to treat saphenous vein graft (SVG) lesions is associated with better outcomes than is the use of bare metal stents,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Following carotid artery stenting or carotid endarterectomy, rates of restenosis are about 2.5 times higher with stenting, according to French investigators reporting in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with ST-segment elevated MI undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a simple protocol of intracoronary administration of adenosine during the procedure…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study provides more evidence that influenza vaccine reduces major cardiovascular events in patients hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (ACS). In the…
NEW YORK (Reuters health) – The effects of cardiac resynchronization may be more dramatic in patients with advanced heart failure, but those with less severe symptoms also benefit…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A D-dimer level below 500 ng/mL reliably rules out acute aortic dissection, although the positive predictive value of a higher concentration is quite…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients who require stroke prevention therapy and who also undergo coronary stenting, combining oral anticoagulation with aspirin and clopidogrel provides better antithrombotic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to the standard 75-mg/d maintenance dose of clopidogrel, 150 mg/d produces greater platelet inhibition, higher flow-mediated vasodilation, and reduced inflammation – all…