Cardiology General
Nov 14, 2013
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have changed the way patients with cardiac arrhythmias are evaluated and treated. Asymptomatic patients often receive ICDs as part of a primary preventio...
Nov 14, 2013
The success of treatment for pulmonary hypertension (PH), including pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), is dependent on early detection and an accurate diagnosis. “PH treatments are typically dir...
Nov 01, 2013
The Particulars: Studies exploring approaches to cardiac catheterization in women have yet to include a registry-based, randomized trial in the United States. Multicenter trial data comparing radial P...
Nov 01, 2013
The Particulars: Previous research on hydration choices during and after coronary angiography has not compared sodium bicarbonate and saline and has not examined their effect on preventing death, rena...
Nov 01, 2013
The Particulars: Anecdotal evidence suggests that intraprocedural stent thrombosis is associated with poor outcomes. However, little research has been conducted to evaluate the incidence and associate...
Oct 29, 2013
The Particulars: Previous studies have shown that induced hypothermia (IH) helps improve neurologic outcomes in patients after they experience a cardiac arrest. Few studies have looked at clinical pre...
Oct 29, 2013
The Particulars: The ability to predict hypotension among patients with severe sepsis or septic shock who are normotensive at ED triage may allow for more expeditious and appropriate treatment. The in...
Oct 25, 2013
New research is being presented at TCT 2013, the 25th anniversary of the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics annual meeting, from October 27 to November 1, in San Francisco. Meeting Highlight...
Oct 25, 2013
Recently, the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) and American Heart Association (AHA) jointly released an expanded clinical practice guideline for the management of patients with heart f...
Oct 22, 2013
New research is being presented at CHEST 2013, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, from October 26 to 31 in Chicago. Meeting Highlights Electronic ICUs Provide Remot...
Oct 21, 2013
Hypertension is a common comorbidity of diabetes that increases risks for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and microvascular complications. Most patients with diabetes have hypertension, but the prevalenc...
Oct 21, 2013
Weight loss surgery (WLS) has been an effective treatment for many patients with clinically severe obesity and comorbid medical conditions. Despite its merits, WLS requires major lifestyle changes f...
Oct 18, 2013
Several studies have suggested that financial incentives appear to help overweight and obese patients continue to participate in weight-loss programs longer and lose more weight than counterparts who ...
Oct 17, 2013
The Particulars: Few studies have looked at the appropriateness of intravenous (IV) antihypertensive medication use in ED patients with elevated blood pressure (BP). Data Breakdown: For a study inv...
Oct 17, 2013
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer are the most prevalent diseases in the current era, and the rates of these diseases continue to rise. More than 2 million breast cancer survivors in the United ...
Oct 14, 2013
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), more than 200,000 adults and 6,000 children have in-hospital cardiac arrests (IHCAs) each year, and survival has remained relatively unchanged for de...
Oct 09, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC—Researchers at the University of Michigan Department of Surgery have begun testing an alternative to embryonic stem cells that could one day regenerate muscle tissue for babies with c...