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No Benefit of Balloon Pump in Acute MI With Shock
Major Finding: The primary end point of 30-day all-cause mortality was 41.3% in controls and 39.7% in patients receiving IABP support, a...
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Equally Low Thrombosis Seen With Zotarolimus-, Sirolimus-Eluting Stents
Major Finding: Over 3 years, the incidence of stent thrombosis was 1.4% with a zotarolimus-eluting device and 1.8% with a sirolumus-eluting stent....
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Third Universal MI Definition Unveiled
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DeFACTO Propels CT Fractional Flow Reserve Closer to Clinical Practice
Major Finding: CT fractional flow reserve (FFR-CT) plus CT had a per-patient performance diagnostic accuracy of 73% with a 95% confidence interval...
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TRILOGY: Prasugrel, Clopidogrel Look Similar in ACS Patients
Major Finding: Prasugrel showed no overall efficacy edge over clopidogrel in medically managed patients with non–ST-segment elevation acute...
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ESC Guidelines Tackle TAVI
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Youth Smoking Linked to Carotid Intima-Media Thickening
Major Finding: Smoking duration in youth was positively associated with common carotid intima-media thickness (0.014-mm increase/year).
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Age, Weight May Define Benefits, Risks of Vorapaxar After MI
Major Finding: During a median follow-up of 2.5 years, cardiovascular death, MI, or stroke occurred in 610 of the 8,898 patients who received...
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Stroke Treatment Gets Boost From New Clot Retrievers
Major Finding: Successful recanalization was significantly more likely to occur in 58 patients treated with the Solitaire device than in 55...
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LCZ696 Promising in Subset of Heart Failure Patients
Major Finding: The change in NT-proBNP from baseline to week 12 was significantly reduced in patients in the LCZ696 group (from 783 to 605 pg/mL...
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Finally! The Dessert-With-Breakfast Diet
Major Finding: Obese, nondiabetic patients assigned to a weight-loss diet emphasizing a high-protein, high-carbohydrate breakfast including a...