Heart Failure
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Benzodiazepines Improve Dyspnea in Palliative Care Patients
Major Finding: At follow-up 24 hours after adjustment of dosages or addition of an opioid or a benzodiazepine, the population with severe dyspnea...
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Reduced TPA Regimen Safely Treats Pulmonary Embolism
Major Finding: Pulmonary embolism patients receiving reduced dosages of TPA and anticoagulant had a 16% pulmonary hypertension rate versus 57% in...
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Glucose Cocktail Halved Cardiac Arrest in Suspected ACS
Major Finding: Administration of GIK in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome reduced the combined end point of pre- or in-hospital...
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Sleeping Too Much or Too Little Puts Heart at Risk
Major Finding: Persons who slept more than eight hours per night had a twofold increased risk of angina (2.07) as well as an increased risk of...
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Tracking Method Improves Outcomes in CRT
Major Finding: 70% of heart failure patients receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy with guided imaging to determine individualized placement...
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Community Hospital Offers Catheter-Directed Pulmonary Thrombolysis
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Aspirin, Warfarin Show Equal Heart Failure Efficacy
Major Finding: Heart failure patients treated with aspirin or warfarin had an identical 7% rate of death, ischemic stroke, or intracerebral...
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LVAD Support Optimal During Bridge to Transplant
Major Finding: Compared with LVADs, all other treatments showed significantly increased risk of posttransplant death, including inotropes (HR, 1.1...
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Marathon Runners Are at Low Risk of Cardiac Arrest
Major Finding: The overall rate of sudden death during or immediately after marathon and half-marathon races is 1 per 259,000 runners, which...