ACC 2014 Report: Genetic markers predict heart attack?
Results of the study could help the 715,000 Americans who suffer from heart attacks each year. Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City… read more.
Results of the study could help the 715,000 Americans who suffer from heart attacks each year. Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City… read more.
Obese people who have stomach surgery to help them lose weight will halve their risk of heart attack according to new research from a team of doctors at… read more.
A comparison of the safety of biodegradable polymer biolimus-eluting stents vs durable polymer everolimus-eluting stents finds similar outcomes for measures including death and heart attack after two years,… read more.
The 6-month follow-up data from the METOCARD-CNIC trial are published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Use of the drug aleglitazar, which has shown the ability to lower glucose levels and have favorable effects on cholesterol, did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular death,… read more.
Report from the ACC Annual Scientific Meeting, 29 – 31 March 2014 in Washington. Angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are associated with reduced mortality and cardiovascular events in patients… read more.
Poster Presentation: Study of alemtuzumab induction with tacrolimus maintenance monotherapy compared to IL2R blockade with tacrolimus/MMF maintenance in kidney transplantation by Adam McLean, Imperial College Kidney & Transplant… read more.
Quality assessment of human kidneys using ex-vivo normothermic perfusion by Adam Barlow, University Hospitals of Leicester – Ex-vivo normothermic perfusion is a viable method of preserving kidneys for… read more.
Maria Dalby reporting on the Oral Presentation by Mari Kilner, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne- Thromboelastography is a method of testing the efficiency of coagulation which measures not… read more.
Maria Dalby reporting on the Oral Presentation by Marc Clancy, Western Infirmary, Glasgow – Although the mainstay of clinical immunosuppression since the 1980s, calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) are narrow… read more.
Maria Dalby reporting on the Oral Presentation by Lluís Guirado, Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain. Renal function is a strong predictor of patient and graft survival after renal transplantation,… read more.
Maria Dalby reporting on the Oral Presentation by Phanibhushana Munipalle, Southmead Hospital, Bristol. Altruistic organ donation, that is, where a person volunteers to donate a kidney for transplantation… read more.
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