HOSP || Across Specialties

Apixaban approved for preventing DVT and pulmonary embolism after hip/knee surgery

Posted on: 14/03/2014 - 20:15

The oral anticoagulant apixaban has been approved for prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis, which may lead to pulmonary embolism, in patients who have undergone hip or knee replacement...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

High burden of insulin-related hypoglycemia

Posted on: 10/03/2014 - 20:00

Severe hypoglycemia related to overly "tight" insulin control for type 2 diabetes prompts nearly 100,000 emergency department visits and 30,000 hospitalizations each year and is...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

HFPEF’s diverse features pose management and trial challenges

Posted on: 08/03/2014 - 06:00

When the highly-anticipated results from the TOPCAT trial reported last November failed to show a statistically significant efficacy benefit from spironolactone treatment in patients with heart...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Warfarin beneficial after acute a fib–associated MI in chronic kidney disease

Posted on: 04/03/2014 - 21:00

Warfarin therapy decreased the composite endpoint of death, recurrent myocardial infarction, and ischemic stroke after an incident acute MI with atrial fibrillation among patients who had chronic...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Physicians are major source for frequent opioid misusers

Posted on: 03/03/2014 - 21:15

Most people who misuse opioid pain relievers cite friends and relatives as their sources for the drugs, but more of the people who misuse these agents most often – those who take them from 200 to 365...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Minimalist transfemoral TAVR winning surgical converts

Posted on: 03/03/2014 - 15:00

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Familiarity with the option of minimalist transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement is causing some top surgeons to broaden their use of nonsurgical valve replacement....

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Physician/patient communication on ICDs deemed problematic

Posted on: 28/02/2014 - 18:15

SNOWMASS, COLO. – Cardiologist-patient discussions at the time of decision making about implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy are fraught with a disturbing degree of misrepresentation and...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: How to improve cancer survivorship planning

Posted on: 24/02/2014 - 14:25

BRUSSELS – National Cancer Institute Director Catherine Alfano, Ph.D., summarizes the institute’s work on improving cancer survivor planning, better coordinating survivor care, and gathering new data...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Multiple gut surgeries tip scale against laparoscopic gall bladder surgery

Posted on: 20/02/2014 - 14:00

NAPLES, FLA. – Only fewer prior abdominal surgeries predicted successful laparoscopic gall bladder surgery after percutaneous cholecystostomy tube placement in a review of 245 patients. Notably, the...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Ablation edges out drugs for treatment-naive paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Posted on: 18/02/2014 - 21:00

Among younger patients with treatment-naive paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, radiofrequency ablation modestly lowered the rate of recurrent atrial tachyarrhythmia during 2 years of follow-up, compared...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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