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The management of asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) is controversial. Patients meeting standard echocardiographic criteria for severe stenosis have a variety of pressure gradients and flow rates that can be divided into four categories based on normal flow vs low flow (NF vs LF) and low gradient vs high gradient (LG vs HG), where LF is defined as a stroke volume index (SVI) of < 35 mL/m2 and LG is a mean gradient < 40 mmHg.
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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) can cause symptomatic claudication and it can reduce quality of life.
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New treatment for prostate cancer; avastin and breast cancer; new CMS disclosure rule; and FDA actions.
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In this study, Freeman and colleagues analyzed data from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry-ICD Registry (NCDR-ICD Registry) to examine the effects of physician procedure volume on in-hospital complications and death.
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This pan-European multicultural study investigates whether after initial weight loss in overweight subjects, a subsequent diet of high or low carbohydrate (glycemic index) or protein diets helped subjects maintain their new weight better.
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In this paper, Priori and colleagues from a consortium of 10 Italian arrhythmia centers enrolled Brugada syndrome patients to evaluate the role of programmed electrical stimulation in risk stratification and to look for other novel predictors of outcome in Brugada syndrome patients.
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The prevalence of obesity is increasing throughout the western world at an alarming rate. Obesity has been associated with higher rates of cardiovascular events, although the converse association (between weight loss and reduction in cardiovascular events) has been harder to prove.
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Newer more sensitive troponin assays have the potential to identify acute myocardial infarction (AMI) earlier, but some detect troponin in 50% of normal populations, which renders them clinically useless.
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Shah et al used an administrative database, the California State Inpatient Database from the Healthcare Utilization Project, to analyze the short and intermediate success and complication rates associated with catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF).
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New treatment for TB; safety of dabigatran; quality of antidepressants; systolic hypertension treatment; and FDA actions.
