Cardiology General
May 19, 2020
Major studies in interventional cardiology in 2019 have added substantial new evidence for pharmaco-invasive management of coronary artery disease. The review highlights the main findings of a selecti...
May 19, 2020
Clinical and economic consequences of statin treatment guidelines supplemented by targeted coronary artery calcium (CAC) assessment have not been evaluated in African American individuals, who are at ...
May 19, 2020
Preventing sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to acute myocardial infarction (MI) in previously healthy patients is challenging. Proteomic analysis may lead to an understanding of biological mechanisms an...
May 19, 2020
New research was presented at SCAI 2020, the virtual Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions annual meeting. The features below highlight some of the studies that emerged from the c...
May 18, 2020
Women remain underrepresented in studies on advanced heart failure (HF) despite a higher mortality rate once diagnosed when compared with men. “There are well-recognized sex differences in the use o...
May 16, 2020
Published reports indicate that as many as 8% of cardiac surgical patients are readmitted to a cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU) during the same hospital stay, with readmission associated wit...
May 16, 2020
For certain patient groups, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may be associated with cardiovascular disease. At present, physicians determine OSA severity by referring to the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI), w...
May 15, 2020
Previous studies have established a direct association between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular (CV) mortality and morbidity. Evidence suggests that patients with CKD have an increased ...
May 15, 2020
Small series points to complex issues for HT patients with Covid-19 Over an 8-week period beginning March 1, doctors at a large academic medical center in New York confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in 2...
May 12, 2020
To report the outcomes of hepatoblastoma resected in our institution.We diagnosed 135 children with hepatoblastoma at our institution between January 2010 and December 2017. Patients who underwent liv...
May 12, 2020
Nontumoral portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is present at liver transplantation (LT) in 5-26% of cirrhotic patients, and is known to affect post LT outcomes. Up to 31% of patients who are found to have PV...
May 12, 2020
Heterotopic Ossification (HO) refers to the formation of bone within soft tissue. Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has been shown to be associated with development of HO. However, risk factors for H...
May 12, 2020
The purpose was to evaluate the impact of intra-operative administration of tranexamic acid (TXA) and pre-operative discontinuation of prophylactic chemoprophylaxis in patients undergoing internal fix...
May 12, 2020
Superior mesenteric vein thrombosis (SMVT) is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening postoperative complication of colorectal surgery. Risk factors and prognosis of SMVT have been poorly describ...
May 12, 2020
To demonstrate the effect of daily treatment time on recovery of functional outcomes and how each type of rehabilitation treatment influences the improvement of subgroups of functional outcomes in str...
May 12, 2020
In a previous analysis of a post-myocardial infarction (MI) cohort, abnormally high systemic vascular resistances (SVR) were shown to be frequently revealed by MRI during the healing period, independe...
May 12, 2020
5-year survival of patients with Unprotected left main (ULM) stenosis according to the choice of revascularization (percutaneous vs. surgical) remains to be defined.Randomized Controlled Trials (RTCs)...
May 12, 2020
An increasing body of evidence suggests that inflammation plays a key role in stroke, in particular stroke of atherosclerotic origin. Anti-inflammatory medications are a widely heterogeneous group of ...
May 12, 2020
Central venous obstruction (stenosis or occlusion) is common in patients with renal failure on hemodialysis and may be associated with intracranial hypertension (IH). Causes include vein injury from a...
May 12, 2020
To analyse the relationship between stent expansion criteria using optical coherence tomography (OCT) analysis and the final PCI functional result.This post-hoc analysis of the DOCTORS study included ...