Cardiology General
Jan 29, 2020
by Physician’s Weekly blogger, Skeptical Scalpel A pregnant 28-year-old Bakersfield, California woman, admitted to a hospital on January 9 with contractions, died after receiving an unspecified a...
Jan 24, 2020
The European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and European Renal Association/European Dialysis and Transplantation Association (ERA/EDTA) jointly conducted a physician-based survey to gain insight into...
Jan 24, 2020
Many patients are prescribed anticoagulants. Newer non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants, NOACs, were launched in 2008 and are increasingly commonly used. However, they may still be unfamiliar to patients...
Jan 24, 2020
Patients suffering from cardiovascular disease require comprehensive medical attention that involves therapies and procedures necessary to reintegrate them optimally to their personal, family, work, a...
Jan 24, 2020
The current use of lipid lowering therapies and the eligibility for proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin-9 (PCSK9) inhibitors of patients surviving a myocardial infarction (MI) is poorly known.Using...
Jan 24, 2020
The approval of clinical pathways (CPWs) represents a key step to focus the care management on the patient. The PDTA Net project, by ReS Foundation and CINECA, aims to create a reference tool to study...
Jan 24, 2020
To evaluate the risk of having a stroke and the risk of bleeding in institutionalized patients with atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is a common cardiac arrhythmia associated with increased mo...
Jan 24, 2020
To outline the tools available to help understand the risk of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and the gaps in knowledge regarding TAVR risk estimation.Review of the literature.Two models...
Jan 24, 2020
Delirium is a common and potentially preventable condition in older individuals admitted to acute and intensive care wards, associated with negative prognostic effects. Its clinical relevance is being...
Jan 24, 2020
Permanent pacing is the therapy of choice for treating severe and/or symptomatic bradyarrhythmias. The number of very elderly patients receiving pacemakers is increasing and little is known about surv...
Jan 24, 2020
This study sought to assess whether an atrial fibrillation (AF)-specific clinic is associated with improved adherence to American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) clinical ...
Jan 23, 2020
Graves' disease is associated with tachydysrythmia, cardiac ischaemia and cardiomyopathy - all uncommon in young adults without previous cardiac disease. We present three young individuals who develop...
Jan 21, 2020
TUESDAY, Jan. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Data from activity and physiological trackers may improve prediction of influenza-like illness (ILI), according to a study published online Jan. 16 in T...
Jan 17, 2020
Five major guidelines on statin use for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) have been published since 2014: the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE...
Jan 17, 2020
The prevalence of hypertension and the risk for hypertension-related cardiovascular disease (CVD) are high among black adults. The population-attributable risk (PAR) accounts for both prevalence and e...
Jan 17, 2020
Pulmonary hypertension (pHTN) is associated with increased risk of mortality after mitral valve surgery for mitral regurgitation. However, its association with clinical outcomes in patients undergoing...
Jan 17, 2020
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common type of cardiac arrhythmia, affecting 2.7 million to 6.1 million persons in the United States. Although some persons with AFib have no symptoms, others do...
Jan 17, 2020
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an underdiagnosed and undertreated genetic disorder that leads to premature morbidity and mortality due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Familial hyperc...
Jan 14, 2020
By Lisa Rapaport People who smoke or have recently quit have higher odds of being severely impaired after a stroke than their counterparts who never smoked, a new study su...
Jan 13, 2020
Evidence suggests worse-than-normal outcomes in noncardiac surgery during the first month of the academic year (July). “This so-called ‘July effect’ has never been studied in cardiac surgery,”...