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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

FDA approves dapagliflozin for type 2 diabetes

Posted on: 08/01/2014 - 20:20

Dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor, has been approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes with a requirement that the manufacturer conduct postmarketing studies that address...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

‘JNC 8’ guideline follows convoluted endgame

Posted on: 04/01/2014 - 06:00

UPDATED Jan. 4, 2014 The federally funded program to produce a set of U.S. guidelines for hypertension management, a process more than 5 years in the making, came to an unusual end on...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

New analysis does not link high-potency statins with acute kidney injury

Posted on: 30/12/2013 - 20:30

DALLAS – High-potency statin therapy given post acute coronary syndrome did not raise serum creatinine or cause more risk of acute kidney injury than low-potency statin regimens did in a new analysis...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Antipsychotics boosted CVD events in elderly

Posted on: 27/12/2013 - 19:15

DALLAS – Elderly patients who started treatment with an antipsychotic drug had a substantially increased risk for a major adverse cardiovascular disease event, especially during the first month on...

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

Novel Watchman antistroke device backed as warfarin equivalent

Posted on: 12/12/2013 - 16:55

GAITHERSBURG, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has voted in favor of approving 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

Energy drinks amp up heart contractility

Posted on: 03/12/2013 - 18:25

CHICAGO – Consumption of an energy drink containing caffeine and taurine slightly, but significantly, altered left ventricular contractility in healthy volunteers, while consuming the same amount of...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Abrupt increase noted in LVAD thrombosis

Posted on: 02/12/2013 - 18:00

An abrupt and unexpected increase in pump thrombosis has occurred since March 2011 in patients with advanced heart failure who received the HeartMate II left ventricular assist device, according to a...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

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