FPN || Cardiovascular Disease

AAN issues nonvalvular atrial fibrillation stroke prevention guideline

Posted on: 24/02/2014 - 21:25

A new evidence-based guideline on how to identify and treat patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation to prevent cardioembolic stroke from the American Academy of Neurology suggests when to...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Device detects more atrial fibrillation, but when is intervention necessary?

Posted on: 21/02/2014 - 14:20

SAN DIEGO – After 6 months, Medtronic’s Reveal XT implant picked up atrial fibrillation in 8.6% of cryptogenic stroke patients. Standard monitoring found it in 1.4%, according to company data...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Continuous AF monitors raise questions about when to intervene

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 18:05

SAN DIEGO – Medtronic’s Reveal XT heart monitor implant detected atrial fibrillation missed by older techniques in a randomized trial. The company’s North American and European <link...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

PITCH is called for a balk

Posted on: 19/02/2014 - 20:30

Just as spring training has begun, the National Institutes of Health has withdrawn funding for an important clinical trial, "Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibition With Tadalafil Changes Outcomes...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Latest studies fine-tune ACC/AHA dietary guidelines

Posted on: 19/02/2014 - 14:50

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Recent large studies validate and fine-tune the 2013 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology guidelines on diet and lifestyle management to reduce cardiovascular...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

ACC highlights noninvasive cardiovascular imaging issues

Posted on: 17/02/2014 - 20:30

Noninvasive cardiovascular imaging in U.S. medical practice today raises two policy challenges, according to a statement released on Feb. 17 by the American College of Cardiology and 13 collaborating...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

FDA panel votes against cangrelor approval for PCI, bridge indications

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 16:25

SILVER SPRING, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel, citing numerous problems with cangrelor’s clinical trial program, has recommended against approval of the short-acting intravenous...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Personalization keys vision of improved atrial fib care

Posted on: 12/02/2014 - 12:00

Atrial fibrillation is not a single disease, and specialists already have ways to distinguish one type from another and guide management. But new methods are emerging to better distinguish various...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Mini-VADs could transform heart failure therapy

Posted on: 11/02/2014 - 20:30

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Survival in patients with advanced heart failure who receive a left ventricular assist device as destination therapy or as a bridge to transplant has increased dramatically in...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

FDA to probe saxagliptin’s heart failure risk

Posted on: 11/02/2014 - 20:15

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will investigate the possible association between treatment with the type 2 diabetes drug saxagliptin and an increased rate of hospitalizations for heart failure...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

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