Despite effective antithyroid therapy, some previously hyperthyroid patients continue to experience cardiovascular problems, UK researchers report in the...
In patients with advanced heart failure, the level of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) before pacemaker implantation predicts the response to cardiac...
Smokers who were given varenicline (Chantix, Pfizer), a nicotine receptor agonist, to help them stop smoking were three times more likely to quit than those...
Pupillometry abnormalities may be early indicators that diabetic patients are at high risk of future microvascular disease, Australian researchers report in...
The technique is used today on the strength of smaller studies, but peripheral ultrafiltration's capable showing in a 200-patient controlled trial, now...
Compared with hospitals engaged only in public reporting, those involved in pay for performance had modestly greater improvements in quality, according to the...
Scientists have identified a gene variant that causes an upregulation of an inflammatory enzyme and appears to favor women over men [1]. The gene is known as...
Growth hormone appears to have a number of beneficial effects on cardiovascular parameters in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), French researchers...
A 150-mg maintenance dose of clopidogrel may be more appropriate than the standard 75-mg dose for patients with type 2 diabetes who are at higher risk of...
Despite effective antithyroid therapy, some previously hyperthyroid patients continue to experience cardiovascular problems, UK researchers report in the...
The available evidence does not support the use of beta blockers as first-line drugs in the treatment of hypertension, according to a new Cochrane review [1]. ...
Intravenous mesna, a thiol-containing drug analogue of taurine, causes a rapid decrease in plasma total homocysteine levels during hemodialysis, Canadian...
Endovascular treatment of experimental aneurysms by use of fibroblast-coated platinum coils appears to accelerate early healing in rabbits, researchers report...
Patients in the Treating to New Targets trial who had been randomized to receive atorvastatin at 80 mg/day were significantly less likely to be hospitalized...
Clinical Text Statins are now recommended at higher doses for patients with coronary heart disease, in part based on previous data from the Treating to New...
Postmenopausal women, regardless of any risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), are at increasing risk for fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular (CV) events...
Variants in key coagulation and anticoagulation proteins were more common in postmenopausal women who developed venous thrombosis (VT) than in those who did...
The benefits of statins are derived from both reductions in LDL cholesterol and increases in HDL cholesterol, a new post hoc analysis of four clinical trials...
Patients treated with intermittent, high-dose oral glucocorticoid therapy may have a slight increased risk of osteoporotic fracture, according to the results...
The combination of rosiglitazone and fenofibrate provides better type 2 diabetes treatment in obese patients than rosiglitazone alone, researchers in...
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has announced a proposal to expand coverage for carotid artery stenting (CAS) procedures to include those...
Genentech, Inc, has warned healthcare professionals regarding the potential increased risk for stroke associated with use of ranibizumab (Lucentis) in the...
A new study attempts to quantify the risk for fatal myocardial infarction (MI) after treatment for Hodgkin's disease, and the results are worrisome, suggesting...
A low-dose quadruple antihypertensive drug combination appears to be more efficacious than treatment with individual agents, according to preliminary findings...
Plasma levels of RANTES, a chemokine with broad influence in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and acute coronary syndromes, were independently associated...
Substantial weight loss after bariatric surgery is associated with a reduced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), according to a report in the January 15th...
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These days I had a patient with AV block III degree. He was about 50 years old man. He was at maximal dose of cholinilytics and something strange happened....
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