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…
Stuart Fischer, MD, discusses the importance of celebrity role models in America’s collective weight problems. Influential individuals who say that it is acceptable to be overweight can have…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – No matter whether they receive biological or mechanical prosthetic aortic valves, patients have generally similar survival and complication rates — until 10 years…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Interest in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) grew in the mid-1990s based on the belief that it could reduce the complications seen…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with stable angina pectoris, the heart-rate lowering drug ivabradine reduces attack frequency and nitrate consumption – and this is true even…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research suggests that coronary artery calcium score (CACS) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) provide complimentary information in predicting a person’s short-…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with hypertension, physicians should assess the presence of subclinical organ damage, an indication of high absolute risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD).…
DMC Heart Imaging Specialist Doctor Hamid Sattar uses the 64-slice Coronary CTA to find coronary artery disease before symptoms even appear. Detroit Medical Center For more information, please…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A central pulse pressure (PP) of 50 mmHg or higher is predictive of future MI, coronary heart disease, and other cardiovascular events, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Omega-3 fatty acid supplements do not improve the response to sertraline in heart disease patients with major depression, according to results of a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with heart failure have fewer hospitalizations and lower mortality when they’re monitored remotely, either by routine telephone calls or electronic transfer of…
