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LAA occlusion boosts anticoagulants’ protection
ORLANDO – When atrial fibrillation patients have cardioembolic events despite anticoagulation, left atrial appendage occlusion can augment their...
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Expert: Eat walnuts!
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Beneficial alterations to gut microbiome seen in RCT.
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Atrial fibrosis weighed as key arrhythmia, stroke trigger
Extensive left atrial fibrosis was linked with a fourfold higher stroke risk, and ablative fibrosis isolation enhanced atrial fibrillation control...
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Learn ‘four Ds’ approach to heart failure in diabetes
Heart failure in the presence of type 2 diabetes has a 5-year survival rate on par with some of the worst diseases.
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How to prioritize CVD reduction in type 2 diabetes
The paradigm of treating patients with type 2 diabetes should shift from a narrow focus on hemoglobin A1c control.
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Heart attacks bring 12 weeks of higher stroke risk
During the 12 weeks following hospitalization for a myocardial infarction, patients had an elevated risk for a new-onset acute ischemic stroke.
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Cerebrospinal tract may help decide mild stroke treatment
The findings could help select patients for treatment with alteplase.
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Elderly at highest CV risk get short-statined
“Older patients who have ASCVD are actually the group at highest risk of events, yet they’re the least likely to receive a high-intensity statin...
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VIDEO: COMPASS shows stroke-clot aspiration noninferior to retrieval
LOS ANGELES – An initial strategy of clot aspiration was noninferior to initial clot removal with a stent retriever in a multicenter randomized...
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Modeling data suggest how to increase access to endovascular therapy
LOS ANGELES – Simply making endovascular therapy available at 50 select hospitals could provide access to another 22 million Americans.
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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...