NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Direct stent implantation without balloon dilatation can be safely performed in some patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevated MI (STEMI), and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Pretreatment with a 600-mg versus a standard 300-mg loading dose of clopidogrel in the setting of urgent percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevated…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among children receiving anthracycline-based chemotherapy, echocardiograms obtained before and during treatment rarely detect significant cardiotoxicity that changes treatment decisions, reports a team with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Cancer patients who develop febrile neutropenia after chemotherapy but who are otherwise stable can be treated as outpatients, with no greater risk for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a meta-analysis of randomized trials indicate that percutaneous coronary intervention for left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease is associated with less…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For preventing relapse of ulcerative colitis (UC), mesalamine can be taken once a day rather than twice or three times daily, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treating patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension with more than one class of pulmonary vasodilator does not decrease mortality or slow progression of the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Preterm infants requiring respiratory support do not benefit from inhaled nitric oxide (iNO), according to the results of a meta-analysis of individual patient…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Continuing bivalirudin for 4 hours after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) facilitates early microvascular reperfusion without an…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Canaloplasty works just as well as trabeculectomy in reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with open-angle glaucoma, according to results of a retrospective…
