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) – In patients with symptomatic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, alcohol septal ablation results in sustained clinical and hemodynamic improvement, according to a prospective study spanning…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As initial therapy in patients with low-risk, stable coronary artery disease, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) added to medical therapy is more effective than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Following transcatheter closure of a patent foramen ovale (PFO), migraine relief may occur despite residual right-to-left shunt, researchers report in the October 1st…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Nephropathy associated with iodinated contrast medium exposure can be fatal, physicians report in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. However, the mortality…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Routine periodic fasting is associated with reduced incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and diabetes, according to findings from the Intermountain Heart Collaborative…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research suggests that obesity not only increases the risk of first atrial fibrillation, it also increases the odds that paroxysmal atrial fibrillation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of cardioselective beta-blockers can improve survival in “carefully selected” COPD patients undergoing vascular surgery, according to a report in the first…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Even in the absence of clinical stroke, atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with impaired cognitive function and reduced hippocampal volume, according to findings…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – With the introduction of more intensive medical therapy, revascularization for asymptomatic carotid stenosis is likely to benefit less than 5% of patients, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Randomized trials have shown a survival benefit to using drug-eluting stents (DES) rather than bare-metal stents (BMS) in heart disease patients. Now, the…
