da Calogero Calcullo | Gen 7, 2016 | Novità dalla letteratura, Rubriche
Summary Background The benefits of blood pressure lowering treatment for prevention of cardiovascular disease are well established. However, the extent to which these effects differ by baseline blood pressure, presence of comorbidities, or drug class is less clear. We...
da Calogero Calcullo | Dic 12, 2015 | Senza categoria
The authors assessed outcomes of left atrial appendage (LAA) ligation with the Lariat device in 139 patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) ineligible for oral anticoagulation. Acute closure was achieved in 99% of patients, and 90% had complete closure at...
da Calogero Calcullo | Nov 11, 2015 | Novità dalla letteratura, Rubriche
The authors of this study evaluated the effectiveness of CHA2DS2-VASc and CHADS2 scores compared with ATRIA score for predicting stroke risk in 60,594 patients with atrial fibrillation not on warfarin. The ATRIA score had a C statistic of 0.70, which was slightly...
