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) – It doesn’t matter whether or not EMTs do a few minutes’ CPR before defibrillation of cardiac-arrest patients, researchers conclude in a meta-analysis that…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite being recommended by the American Heart Association, there is no evidence that immediate beta-blockade in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When spontaneous circulation is restored after cardiac arrest, patients with hyperoxia have higher rates of in-hospital mortality than those with hypoxia or normal…
Richard J Shemin, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses the future of cardiothoracic surgery, which may see such innovations as the development…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combined bivalirudin (Angiomax) and vascular closure devices are better to staunch bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) than either strategy alone, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who receive timely guideline-based reperfusion therapy — fibrinolysis within 30 minutes of arrival and primary percutaneous coronary…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), most of the benefits of sirolimus-eluting stents over bare-metal stents accrue during the first year…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While a hypertension risk prediction model developed in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) shows good discrimination, its performance is not significantly better than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Giving beta-blockers to patients with cocaine-associated chest pain appears to be safe and may even save lives, according to research in the May…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to a modified Blalock-Taussig (MBT) shunt, a right ventricle-pulmonary artery (RV-PA) shunt achieves higher 12-month transplant-free survival in babies with hypoplastic left…
