Cardiology
Commentary
Myth of the Month: Does nitroglycerin response predict coronary artery disease?
A 55-year-old man presents to the emergency department with substernal chest pain. The pain has occurred off and on over the past 2 hours...
Conference Coverage
Beta-blockers curb death risk in patients with primary prevention ICD
ROME – Beta-blocker therapy significantly reduces the risks of cardiac death and all-cause mortality, but not sudden death, in heart failure...
Conference Coverage
NOACs show benefit in calciphylaxis
Don’t prescribe warfarin for patients with calciphylaxis.
Conference Coverage
Palliative care boosts heart failure patient outcomes
Adding palliative care interventions to management of patients with advanced heart failure improved quality-of-life measures in two relatively...
Article
FDA reaffirms rivaroxaban’s atrial fib efficacy in ROCKET AF
The Food and Drug Administration reaffirmed its confidence in the data supporting the claim that rivaroxaban (Xarelto) is a safe and effective...
From the Journals
AHA: Midlife hypertension linked with cognitive impairment
Unchecked hypertension has “devastating” long-term implications for cognitive health, the American Heart Association concluded in a scientific...
From the Journals
Levosimendan does not reduce organ dysfunction risk in sepsis
The calcium-sensitizing drug levosimendan does not reduce the likelihood of severe organ dysfunction in adults with sepsis or lower the mortality...
Conference Coverage
Breast arterial calcifications predict atherosclerotic cardiovascular events
Longitudinal results of a prospective study of women with and without breast arterial calcifications showed that women with the calcifications...
From the Journals
Hypertension in children linked to lower neurocognitive performance
Children with primary hypertension demonstrated significantly lower performance on neurocognitive testing, compared with children without primary...
Patient Information
CABG reduces cardiovascular mortality in ischemic heart failure regardless of age
From the Journals
High-performing hospitals yield longer life expectancy after MI
Patients treated at high-performing hospitals lived, on average, 0.74-1.14 years longer after acute MI than do those treated at low-performing...