Death is sudden and presumably arrhythmic in at least quarter of heart-transplant recipients--it is the mode of death in half or more of some high-risk...
A long-term population-based study of stroke epidemiology suggests that the number of people over the age of 75 suffering intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) has...
There have been substantial changes in the management of patients with STEMI or NSTE ACS in the past few years, which have translated into significant...
Although recent guidelines consider obesity a relative contraindication to heart transplantation, the postoperative survival of many "obese" patients is nearly...
Italian doctors have reported the case of a man who seems to have recovered somewhat from cardiomyopathy associated with long-term cocaine use [1]. The...
The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Monday that it will not be expanding Medicare coverage of carotid stenting to asymptomatic...
Use of thiazolidinediones (glitazones) is associated with a reduced risk of lung cancer in diabetic patients, according to a report in the April 20th issue of...
Diabetic patients with cancer are often treated less aggressively and have a worse overall prognosis than those without diabetes, Dutch investigators report in...
Compared with other antihypertensive agents, centrally active angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) are associated with slower rates of cognitive...
New research from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS) links use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) before the age of 65 years to a reduced...
Using what they call a "back-of-the-envelope" calculation, Drs George Diamond, Sanjay Kaul, and Prediman Shah (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA)...
A new review reporting on the prevalence of actions individuals are taking to manage high blood pressure indicates that nearly everybody is taking at least...
Advancing age, prior cesarean delivery, and black race or Hispanic ethnicity are significant risk factors for pregnancy-related mortality and ¡§near-miss¡¨...
Patients presenting with ocular ischemic events are at substantially increased risk for secondary events such as cerebral stroke or myocardial infarction, and...
When it comes to patients with diabetes, ophthalmologists are fairly good at documenting patient history, details of the physical examination, and diagnosis,...
A new post hoc subgroup analysis of the CHARISMA data has clarified which secondary-prevention patients may benefit most from dual antiplatelet therapy with...
On paper, levosimendan (Simdax, Orion Pharma) seemed like it might make an effective and safer substitute for inotropic agents in the setting of acute...
Several leading heart rhythm organizations have joined forces to develop the first international clinical consensus statement for the use of catheter and...
In addition to the indications for ablation therapy, the task force also spent considerable effort determining postprocedure anticoagulation strategies to...
Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) can prevent colorectal cancer, concludes an analysis of data from 2 large randomized trials. It found that aspirin at a dosage...
Fluorine-18-dihydroxyphenylalanine (18F-DOPA) positron emission tomography (PET) can be used to localize insulinoma or beta-cell hyperplasia in adult patients,...
There's more than one flavor of microvolt T-wave alternans (TWA) test, but not all have been extensively studied for their potential in the risk stratification...
International Journal of Clinical Practice Volume 61 Issue 5 Page 757 - May 2007 To cite this article: W. E. Lawson, J. C. K. Hui, E. D. Kennard, O. Soran, P....
New-onset hyperglycemia is associated with worse survival in nondiabetic patients on peritoneal dialysis, according to a report in the American Journal of...
The risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) associated with dual-chamber pacing in patients with sinus-node disease (SND) can be cut dramatically by the use of...
In patients with left ventricular dysfunction who need an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) but have no indications for antibradycardia pacing,...
Consumption of Fortefiber (Dow Chemical, Midland, MI) blunts glucose and insulin excursions following meals in overweight and obese adults, according to...
Direct renin inhibition with aliskiren appears to be a useful approach to treating hypertension in obese patients who do not respond to thiazide diuretics,...
Cover of The Journal of Sexual Medicine The Journal of Sexual Medicine Volume 4 Issue 3 Page 771 - May 2007 To cite this article: Ahmed El-Sakka MD, Ayman...