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VIDEO: Dabigatran effective for myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery
ORLANDO – There’s now treatment for a condition that’s been rarely looked at until now.
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MOMENTUM 3 HeartMate 3 LVAD ‘practice changing’
ORLANDO – Landmark trial paves way to much wider use of LVADs as destination therapy.
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CECCY: Carvedilol didn’t curb cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients
ORLANDO – “In short follow up, we can see cardiotoxicity appearing, and we know we have to treat it promptly to prevent cardiac events.”
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ODYSSEY Outcomes results build on FOURIER
ODYSSEY Outcomes proves benefit of PCSK9 inhibition, but small differences from FOURIER are concerning.
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VEST: Closer tailoring might boost wearable cardioverter defibrillator’s benefit
VEST showed a wearable cardioverter defibrillator cut all-cause deaths but not arrhythmia deaths, suggesting a need for greater patient targeting...
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Post-ACS death lowered in ODYSSEY Outcomes
ORLANDO – Mortality and major adverse cardiovascular events were cut 15%, but that’s not all.
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VIDEO: Stroke benefits from stem cells maintained for 2 years
LOS ANGELES – The acute benefits seen in 13 of 18 chronic stroke patients treated with intracranial cell transplants continued to 2 years’ follow-...
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VIDEO: Rivaroxaban plus aspirin halves ischemic strokes
In patients with stable atherosclerotic vascular disease, treatment with low-dose rivaroxaban plus aspirin halved the incidence of ischemic...
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VIDEO: Retinal infarctions get missed as stroke harbingers
LOS ANGELES – Review of more than 5,000 Medicare beneficiaries with retinal infarction showed most don’t receive follow-up stroke assessment.
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VIDEO: New stroke guideline embraces imaging-guided thrombectomy
The latest U.S. acute ischemic stroke guideline adopts imaging as the main thrombectomy eligibility criterion out to 24 hours after stroke onset...