This report describes a large group of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who underwent implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation at 42 referral and nonreferral institutions in the United States, Europe and Australia.
Dalal and his colleagues describe data from the Johns Hopkins Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C) registry concerning the efficacy of catheter ablation for ventricular tachycardia (VT) in this condition.
The increasing use of 64-slice computed tomography or MSCT is beginning to significantly impact the medical literature.
Patients with peripheral artery disease are at high risk for cardiovascular complications. Antiplatelet drugs are routinely prescribed for these patients, but is adding an oral anticoagulant of value?
Asymptomatic individuals with systolic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction have an increased mortality. Angiotensin converting enzymes inhibitors (ACEI) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) favorably affect such patients, but little is known abut the effect of beta-blockers in this group.
Biomarkers such as brain natriuretic peptides (BNP) and troponin have been shown to be of diagnostic and prognostic value in patients with heart failure, but little is known abut the value of serial outpatient measurements.
In this paper, hart, pearce and aguilar report the results of a meta-analysis of antithrombotic therapy in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF).
Despite encouraging animal studies and human observational studies such as the Nurses Health Study, prospective randomized placebo-controlled trials such as the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) ...
SSRIs are associated with a low rate of birth defects according to 2 new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine. SSRIs are often taken by women in their childbearing years, but the risk of birth defects has been unclear.
