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Small individuals and women are at risk for RPH and high femoral artery sticks are associated with this complication.
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In a community-based HCM cohort, ventricular and supraventricular tachyarrhythmias on AECG were frequent, but sudden death was uncommon.
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The FDA has asked Pfizer to withdraw valdecoxib (Bextra) from the market due to safety concerns.
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Pulmonary vein stenosis is a significant complication of atrial fibrillation ablation procedures that can occur insidiously late after the ablation.
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Patients with HCM exhibit a high frequency of ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias during ambulatory ECG monitoring, but sudden death is uncommon and not predicted by arrhythmias.
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The possibility of a bird flu pandemic has health officials worldwide in a high state of alert.
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Seven trials comparing drug eluting stents to each other
or bare metal stents were presented. In general, they showed that
drug eluting stents were superior to bare metal stents, but among the
drug eluting stents, the data favored sirolimus eluting stents.
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Intensive lipid-lowering therapy with 80 mg of atorvastatin per day in patients with stable CHD provides significant clinical benefit beyond that afforded by treatment with 10 mg of atorvastatin per day.
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In patients 75 years of age or younger who have myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation and who receive aspirin and a standard fibrinolytic regimen, the addition of clopidogrel improves the patency rate of the infarct-related artery and reduces ischemic complications.
