NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risks involved in the endovascular treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms are about the same whether the aneurysms is bigger than 3 mm…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When patients make sequential position changes during colonoscopy examinations, instead of remaining in the left lateral position, the improvement in luminal distension leads…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with severe aortic stenosis and reduced left ventricular systolic function may do better with transcatheter implantation of a prosthetic aortic valve than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of in vitro testing indicate that silver impregnation of urinary catheters has little effect on bacterial adherence, reinforcing findings from clinical studies…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combined multichannel intraluminal impedance monitoring (MII) and pH monitoring in the esophagus detects gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in children more accurately than pH monitoring…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Chronic Chagas disease in the elderly doubles their risk of dying from a stroke, and the risk is increased further in those with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with major depressive disorder respond faster to treatment with citalopram when given pindolol concomitantly, and the strategy also increases the rate of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) used to prevent sudden cardiac death in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction significantly improve survival in younger patients, but…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding midazolam to ketamine for emergency department sedation in adults reduces the occurrence of agitation during recovery, investigators report in the Annals of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rosuvastatin halves the rate of primary cardiovascular events in patients who have a high global cardiovascular risk profile, according to a post hoc…
