Most physician readers of Aro’s and Chugh’s elegant review of electrical and anatomic types of LVH and the implications will be puzzled by the concepts that electrical LVH (ECG/LVH) and anatomic LVH (echo/LVH and MRI/LVH) might be different entities, and that patients may have one form without the other. These concepts have been evolving over
Patients with heart failure have a poor prognosis, yet outcomes might be improved by early identification of risk. Proenkephalin (proENK), a novel biomarker, is a stable surrogate marker for endogenous enkephalins and is an independent predictor of heart failure and death in patients who had an acute myocardial infarction. This is the first study to
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We aim to evaluate the potential benefit and risk of addition of vorapaxar to standard medical therapy in patients who underwent coronary revascularization with either percutaneous coronary revascularization or coronary artery bypass graft surgery. We searched PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled trials, and the clinical trial registry maintained at clinicaltrials.gov for randomized
Dopo l’endorsement dei giorni scorsi ricevuto dello staff interno dell’Fda, lo scorso 15 gennaio il nuovo antiaggregante orale vorapaxar ha ricevuto il parere positivo degli esperti del Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee dell’Fda. Con 10 voti a 1, gli esperti ne hanno raccomandato l’approvazione come terapia antiaggregante aggiuntiva a quella standard (ASA o ASA
Objectives The aim of this study was to describe current practice regarding completeness of revascularization in patients with multivessel disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and to investigate the association of incomplete revascularization (IR) with death, repeat revascularization, and myocardial infarction (MI) in a large nationwide registry. Background The benefits of multivessel PCI are controversial.
Allopurinol lowers blood pressure in adolescents and has other vasoprotective effects. Whether similar benefits occur in older individuals remains unclear. We hypothesized that allopurinol is associated with improved cardiovascular outcomes in older adults with hypertension. Data from the United Kingdom Clinical Research Practice Datalink were used. Multivariate Cox-proportional hazard models were applied to estimate hazard
Si è concluso Giovedì 4 Febbraio il “Convention Consensus Document Intersocietaria”, tenutosi a Catania su iniziativa dell’A.N.M.C.O., che ha visto riunite le più importanti società scientifiche di area medica, di farmacologia, di biochimica clinica e di biologia molecolare clinica, per condividere la realizzazione del primo Documento Scientifico di Consenso Intersocietario Pluridisciplinare sulle dislipidemie. Con il
Background Diagnosed diabetes mellitus (DM) is a consistently documented risk factor for ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Objectives The purpose of this study was to assess the association between duration of diabetes and elevated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) with risk of stroke among diabetic patients with AF. Methods We assessed this association in the ATRIA
This investigation sought to quantify the risk factors for short-term readmission in patients with heart failure (HF). Electronic databases were systematically searched for studies reporting relative risk, odds ratio, and hazard ratio for the combined primary outcome of all-cause hospital readmission or all-cause mortality ≤90 days from discharge of patients with HF. Clinical characteristics, study design,
