The pattern of restenosis in sirolimus-eluting stents is focal and mainly inside the stent.
Data do not support early implantation of prophylactic ICDs in patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
A new classification of blood pressure in adults is suggested, with normal blood pressure (BP) as < 120 mm Hg and < 80 mm Hg.
The Women's Health Initiatives (WHI) was halted 1 year ago, but fallout from this landmark study continues. The study was designed to identify the risks or benefits of estrogen plus progesterone vs placebo in healthy postmenopausal women.
Since aldosterone is extracted by the heart following acute myocardial infarction (MI), this group of investigators from Japan hypothesized that blocking its action may attenuate postinfarction remodeling.
Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves quality of life and New York Heart Association Functional class in patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure, wide QRS durations, and indications for an ICD.
The combined infusion of AVP and NE was superior to NE alone in catecholamine-resistant vasodilatory shock.
Since patients with low gradient aortic stenosis are at higher risk for surgical replacement, more information concerning whom to select for surgery is desirable. Monin and colleagues from 6 centers in France studied 136 symptomatic patients with aortic valve area < 1.0 cm2, low cardiac index and a mean aortic pressure gradient < 40 mm Hg.
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