Eplerenone lowers mortality following Acute Myocardial Infarction
by Bruce Sylvester – Emerging uses of FDA approved drugs – Eplerenone, a drug used to reduce the risk of death in patients with heart failure, shows significant… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Emerging uses of FDA approved drugs – Eplerenone, a drug used to reduce the risk of death in patients with heart failure, shows significant… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Emerging uses of FDA-approved drugs – Treatment with acetazolamide plus a low-sodium weight-reduction diet for patients diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)mand mild vision… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – A 15% drop in dietary salt use from 2003-2011 in England and a 40% drop in deaths from heart disease and stroke during the… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that administering blood pressure lowering drugs to patients in the first 48 hours after a stroke does not lower the risk of… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – On March 29, 2014, investigators presented results from three separate evolocumab trials at the American College of Cardiology annual meeting/ACC2014. Evolocumab is a human… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Post non-cardiac surgery treatment with low-dose clonidine increased rates of clinically important hypotension and non-fatal cardiac arrest, researchers from the POISE-2 trial have reported.
by Bruce Sylvester – Severe aortic stenosis patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with a self-expanding bioprosthesis have achieved a significantly higher rate of survival at one… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – For managing uncontrolled type 2 diabetes in obese patients, gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy are each more effective than intensive medical therapy alone.
Application of U.S. and European cholesterol guidelines to a European population found that proportions of individuals eligible for statins differed substantially, with one U.S. guideline recommending statins for… read more.
Among patients undergoing aortic valve replacement using a catheter tube, a comparison of two types of heart valve technologies, balloon-expandable or self-expandable valve systems, found a greater rate… read more.
The connection between being underweight and the higher risk of dying is true for both adults and foetuses. Being underweight puts people at highest risk of dying, just… read more.
Study helps put new TAVR technology in perspective for high-risk patients. The first one-year outcomes data of transcatheter heart valve replacement (TAVR) in nearly all U.S. patients undergoing… read more.
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