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Oct 25, 2019
Strong showing for TAVR after 5 years in PARTNER
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Transcatheter and surgical aortic valve
replacement had similar rates of death or disabling stroke.
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Oct 22, 2019
MDedge reporters discuss the latest in practice-changing data from the 2019 annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology in Paris.
Join Mitchel L. Zoler, Bruce Jancin, Kari Oakes, and MDedge Cardiology editor Catherine Hackett as they discuss what they reported from the annual...
Oct 18, 2019
Statin use linked to risk of skin and soft tissue infections
Use of statins was associated with increased risk of SSTIs at an average of 91, 182, and 365 days.
Rivaroxaban trends toward higher thrombotic risk than vitamin K antagonists in APS
Patients who took rivaroxaban experienced almost two times as many...
Oct 11, 2019
Novel cardiac troponin protocol rapidly rules out MI
Three-quarters of patients who presented with suspected acute coronary syndrome were safely discharged from ED without hospital admission.
Study questions preemptive TEVAR for extended type A dissections
Interim results from a single-center study show that...
Oct 4, 2019
Smoking and inactivity are the most powerful lifestyle risk factors after an MI
Insufficient activity beats out obesity or above-target LDL cholesterol.
Ticagrelor monotherapy tops DAPT for high-risk PCI patients
TWILIGHT findings support move to shorter dual-antiplatelet therapy.