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Based on a large national database of heart valve patients, a risk score has been developed to predict operative mortality for any valve surgery.
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Body size is not a significant predictor of CABG mortality.
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Recurrent MI a major cause of death in post MI left-ventricular
dysfunction patients.
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Danons disease or PRKAG2 mutations can present as HCM but are distinguished by the presence of pre-excitation on the ECG.
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Trained paramedics following current CPR guidelines delivered chest compressions in a suboptimal fashion, which resulted in prolonged no flow ratios which may have contributed to the poor survival data presented.
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In patients with healed upper GI lesions that had caused bleeding and who needed antiplatelet therapy for cardiovascular reasons, aspirin plus esomeprazole was superior to clopidogrel for preventing recurrent upper GI bleeding.
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Stopping aspirin may be hazardous to your health, according to recent research.
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Patients with New York Heart Association class II or class III congestive heart failure and a left ventricular ejection fraction of 35% or less benefit from ICD therapy but not from amiodarone therapy.
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Two articles have been recently published emphasizing the importance of C-reactive protein in statin treated patients.