by Bruce Sylvester – Metformin therapy at 500 twice daily (BID) is not protective against heart failure in non-diabetic patients following a heart attack, researchers reported on March… read more.
Analysis could eventually lead to improved therapy, researcher says. So many variables can contribute to shortness of breath that no person can keep them all straight. But a… 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.
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.
Applying the updated 2014 blood pressure (BP) guideline to the U.S. population suggests that nearly 6 million adults are no longer classified as needing hypertension medication, and that… read more.
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.
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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