WASHINGTON – Bivalirudin is an attractive off-label option for the treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, Dr. Lee Joseph said at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology....
WASHINGTON – A third more Americans were hospitalized for ischemic stroke in 2010 than 7 years before, and the incidence of stroke associated with atrial fibrillation grew even more sharply, up by...
WASHINGTON – Think cerebrovascular fibromuscular dysplasia in a middle-aged woman who presents with a complaint of pulsatile tinnitus.
That’s the take-home message from a new analysis of the <link...
WASHINGTON – Preoperative sepsis proved to be an important independent risk factor for both arterial and venous thrombosis during or after surgery in an analysis of nearly 1.75 million U.S. surgical...
WASHINGTON – Being married is independently associated with a significantly reduced rate of vascular disease across all arterial beds, according to a population-based study of more than 3.5 million...
WASHINGTON– Low HDL cholesterol does not increase the risk of coronary heart disease when LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels are normal, according to an analysis from the <link...
WASHINGTON – Marital status plays an underappreciated role in heart failure prognosis.
Indeed, having a life partner was independently associated with a 12% reduction in the risk of all-cause...
WASHINGTON – Continuous cardiac monitoring via Medtronic’s insertable REVEAL XT device resulted in detection of atrial fibrillation in 30% of cryptogenic stroke patients at 36 months of follow-up in...
A low-intensity intervention aimed at managing cardiac patients who have concomitant depression or anxiety improved mental-health–related quality of life when compared with usual care, according to a...
WASHINGTON – The controversial cardiovascular risk estimator introduced in the current American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association risk-assessment guidelines demonstrated "moderate...
