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- CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION: -Extracorporeal life support may improve CPR survival
Assisted extracorporeal life-support for patients receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after in-hospital cardiac arrest could improve their survival, an observational study published early ...
- CARDIOLOGY & EPIDEMIOLOGY: -Men who rate themselves at low CVD risk have reduced CVD death rates
Men who rate themselves at lower-than-average cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk for their age have lower rates of CVD death than men who consider themselves at higher risk, researchers report. Their ...
- OBITUARY: -CARDIOLOGY: -Surgical maestro DeBakey dies at age 99
World-renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr Michael DeBakey has died at age 99. One of the few heart surgeons to gain international recognition outside of medicine, he passed away of natural causes on ...
- INTERVENTIONIST CARDIOLOGY & CORONARY HEART DISEASE: -Better survival with CABG than stenting at six years in SoS, but anticipation builds for SYNTAX
Investigators for the Stent or Surgery (SoS) trial now have six years of follow-up data showing a continuing survival advantage for patients with multivessel disease who underwent CABG instead of PCI ...
- INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: -Early intervention strategy 'more costly on average' than usual care
The extra cost of an early invasive strategy in patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) or unstable angina is only partially offset by subsequent interventions among patients ...
- CARDIOLOGY: -Statins may benefit bradyarrhythmia patients
Atorvastatin may prevent extended atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with bradyarrhythmias who have a pacemaker, a small, open-label trial indicates. Increasing evidence indicates AF is an ...
- CARDIOLOGY: -Extracorporeal life support improves survival in cardiac arrest
Extracorporeal life support combined with conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) roughly doubles survival over CPR alone in patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac origin, a new ...
- CARDIOLOGY: -Big is not a problem: The athlete's heart in the New York Times
The Olympic Games are just weeks away, and when the world tunes in the heart of athletes from around the world will be on full display. The clinical question, though, which has nothing to do with the ...
- CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE: -New AHA MR angiography and CTA statement urges conservative approach and more research
The AHA has issued a new scientific statement on the use of multislice CT angiography (CTA) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA)1, highlighting the specific patient groups in which these ...
- CARDIOLOGY: - Idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias originating from the aortic root
Objectives: This study investigated the prevalence and electrocardiographic and electrophysiologic characteristics of aortic root ventricular arrhythmias (VAs). Background: Idiopathic VAs ...
- CARDIOLOGY: Fontan fenestration closure has no acute effect on exercise capacity but improves ventilatory response to exercise
Objectives: The aim of this study was to prospectively examine the effects of elective Fontan fenestration closure upon exercise capacity and ventilatory abnormalities. Background: For patients ...
- CARDIOLOGY: - A cross-sectional study of exercise performance during the first 2 decades of life after the Fontan operation
Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe exercise performance during the first 2 decades of life in Fontan survivors by a cross-sectional study and to identify factors that influence ...
- CARDIOLOGY: - Contemporary outcomes after the Fontan procedure
Objectives: We characterized a large cohort of children who had a Fontan procedure, with measures of functional health status, ventricular size and function, exercise capacity, heart rhythm, and ...
- CARDIOLOGY: - Sibling death not a marker of serious LQTS events
Individuals with long QT syndrome (LQTS) are not at increased risk for death or aborted cardiac arrest (ACA) if they have a sibling who has died, study findings suggest. Congenital LQTS is a ...
- CARDIOLOGY & EMERGENTOLOGY: - Vasopressin-epinephrine no better than epinephrine alone for cardiac arrest resuscitation
The combination of vasopressin and epinephrine does not improve outcomes of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests compared with epinephrine alone, researchers report. During the ...
