da Calogero Calcullo | Giu 23, 2016 | Novità Dalla letteratura, Rubriche
Background Patients with diabetes appear to be at elevated risk of atherothrombotic events. Objectives The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of antiplatelet therapy with ticagrelor on recurrent ischemic events in patients with diabetes and prior...
da Calogero Calcullo | Giu 23, 2016 | Novità Dalla letteratura, Rubriche
Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have been used in clinical practice in the United States for the last 4 to 6 years. Although DOACs may be an attractive alternative to warfarin in many patients, long-term outcomes of use of these medications are unknown. We...
da Antonio Vittorio Panno | Mag 7, 2016 | Novità Dalla letteratura, Rubriche
Cari soci Ance ho il piacere e l’onore , come anticipato alla riunione dei nostri quadri tenutasi il 22/23 aprile , di comunicarvi l’avvio di un importante studio, in cooperazione con l’AIAC, sulla fibrillazione atriale: lo studio FACT . A fine maggio...
da Calogero Calcullo | Apr 10, 2016 | Novità Dalla letteratura, Rubriche
Abstract Background Risk stratification in asymptomatic patients remains by far the most important yet unresolved clinical problem in the Brugada syndrome (BrS). Objectives This study sought to analyze the usefulness of electrocardiographic parameters as markers of...
da Calogero Calcullo | Apr 10, 2016 | Novità Dalla letteratura, Rubriche
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...
da Calogero Calcullo | Apr 1, 2016 | Cardiologia: presente e futuro... Discutiamone, Novità Dalla letteratura, Rubriche
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...
