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Eliminating frequent right ventricular outflow tract PVCs improves left ventricular function, particularly in patients with extremely high density arrhythmias.
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Disopyramide has a useful role in the therapeutic armamentarium for obstructive cardiomyopathy.
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E/E´ is useful for detecting elevated LV filling pressures in patients with heart failure and may be especially useful for excluding high filling pressures in those with diastolic dysfunction.
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The observed age-related changes in mitral Doppler filling velocity characteristics are not due to differences in left atrial pressure over the physiologic range of pressures.
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The in-hospital outcomes of CABG patients were equivalent to non-CABG patients, suggesting that CABG remains a viable alternative to PCI in selected patients with ACS.
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Valve replacement surgery is usually delayed until symptoms develop in patients with severe aortic stenosis by echocardiography. However, symptoms may be unreliable in older patients who are more sedentary. Thus, Gerber and colleagues from New Zealand evaluated the value of serial BNP measurements to predict the development of symptoms in 29 initially asymptomatic patients with moderate to severe aortic stenosis.
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Is Holding NSAIDs Prior to Surgery Rational?; Low-Dose Aspirin: Men vs Women; FDA Actions
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In vitro resistance to daptomycin associated with clinical failure during treatment for MRSA infection has not been well documented. In vitro resistance to daptomycin is uncommon, de novo-resistant clinical isolates have not yet been reported, and the incidence of resistance, occurring during treatment is believed to be very low. The mechanism of resistance is not even known.
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This article evaluates a mass immunization program with recombinant cholera-toxin B subunit, killed whole cell (rBS-WC) cholera vaccine in Beira, Mozambique, a city where seroprevalence of HIV infection is 20-30%.
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In 1967, in marburg, a medieval university town north of Frankfurt, Germany, on the Lahn River, several employees of a Behringwerke AG, a manufacturer of vaccines, were hospitalized at the University Medical Clinic with a severe influenza-like illness.