IMN || Cardiology

Stress cardiac magnetic resonance feasible and prognostic in obese patients

Posted on: 09/04/2014 - 20:30

Stress cardiac magnetic resonance is highly feasible and prognostically useful in obese patients, a population in which stress imaging methods are limited, according to a study of nearly 300 patients...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

'Favorable signal' for secondary coronary prevention in STABILITY

Posted on: 08/04/2014 - 16:50

WASHINGTON – A novel pharmacologic approach to the prevention of ischemic events in patients with stable coronary heart disease failed to reduce the combined risk of cardiovascular death, acute...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Dabigatran approved for VTE prevention and treatment

Posted on: 07/04/2014 - 17:35

The novel oral anticoagulant dabigatran has been approved for treating and reducing the risk of recurrence of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, based on the results of four phase III...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: PCSK9 inhibitors placed in perspective

Posted on: 07/04/2014 - 16:55

WASHINGTON – "We’re at the dawn of an era of biological therapeutics in cardiology," Dr. Peter Libby, chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, told us...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Rethink the VTE prophylaxis mantra

Posted on: 04/04/2014 - 18:55

LAS VEGAS – Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis – a sine qua non of the Joint Commission and others – doesn’t seem to prevent deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism in hospitalized medical...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Exploring SYMPLICITY’s failure, Part 2

Posted on: 04/04/2014 - 18:35

WASHINGTON – Far from being doomed after the failure SYMPLICITY HTN-3, renal denervation for refractory hypertension will continue to be explored. But it can’t go very far without finding a way to...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Apixaban provides larger medical cost savings than other NOACs

Posted on: 04/04/2014 - 14:45

WASHINGTON – Apixaban yields the great medical cost savings of the three novel oral anticoagulants available as alternatives to warfarin for stroke prevention in patients with nonvalvular atrial...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

One in four patients with hypertension nonadherent to therapy

Posted on: 02/04/2014 - 23:30

Urine testing of patients with hypertension revealed that 25% were partially or totally nonadherent to treatment, researchers reported online April 3 in the journal Heart. Furthermore, nonadherence...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Too much or too little sodium may boost cardiovascular risk

Posted on: 02/04/2014 - 14:25

Patients who had notably high or notably low sodium intake levels were at an increased risk of both all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, compared with patients who had usual sodium intake...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Evolocumab betters ezetimibe for lowering LDL in statin-intolerant patients

Posted on: 31/03/2014 - 20:00

WASHINGTON – Evolocumab, an investigational fully human monoclonal antibody, was associated with markedly greater LDL cholesterol reductions than ezetimibe in a phase III clinical trial of...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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