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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 reviewers support approval of platelet inhibitor cangrelor for PCI indication

Posted on: 10/02/2014 - 20:35

The data on cangrelor support approval of the fast-acting antiplatelet drug for reducing thrombotic cardiovascular events in patients with coronary artery disease who are undergoing percutaneous...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Preoperative organ dysfunction worsens SAVR outcomes

Posted on: 07/02/2014 - 17:35

SNOWMASS, COLO. – The presence of preoperative dysfunction in more than any one of four key organ systems profoundly reduces survival in patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement, a study...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Preoperative organ dysfunction worsens SAVR outcomes

Posted on: 07/02/2014 - 17:35

Field of Interest: Geriatrics

Type: News Item

CoreValve holds size advantage for U.S. TAVR

Posted on: 28/01/2014 - 21:10

When the Food and Drug Administration in January granted marketing approval to a second transcatheter aortic valve replacement system for inoperable patients with aortic stenosis, the CoreValve...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Genotyping adds little to optimized warfarin dosing

Posted on: 03/01/2014 - 14:20

DALLAS – Genotyping to guide the starting dosage of warfarin treatment showed no added value above tailoring treatment with a panel of clinical features in a randomized, controlled U.S. trial of more...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

‘JNC 8’ relaxes elderly systolic target below 150 mm Hg

Posted on: 18/12/2013 - 18:25

The group of experts who had constituted the JNC 8 panel, a team assembled in 2008 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to update official U.S. hypertension management guidelines, set the...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Statin reduces MI risk in ischemic heart failure

Posted on: 09/12/2013 - 21:25

DALLAS – Rosuvastatin appears to reduce the risk of acute myocardial infarction in patients with ischemic heart failure, according to a meta-analysis of two landmark statin trials. This finding is...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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