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News, opinions and meeting coverage in cardiology.

<乌鸦传媒>Wanted: New Developer for Stem Cell Tx in Refractory Angina

Trialists make another appeal for efficacy of CD34+ cells

<乌鸦传媒>ACC: Novel Drug Fails to Reduce Post-Op Risks

A calcium sensitizer flops in study aimed at cutting post-op risks

<乌鸦传媒>FOURIER Opens ACC With a Bang

Big LDL reduction, prevents MI, but with big price tag

<乌鸦传媒>Extra Oxygen for Chest Pain Can Backfire

It's 'too much of a good thing' for nonhypoxic patients

<乌鸦传媒>Cath Lab Recap: Killer Pacemakers; Heart Monitoring Underwear

Interventional cardiology news to note

<乌鸦传媒>AHA: Real World TAVR Is All About Patient Selection

Intermediate risk is a moving target

<乌鸦传媒>AHA: Healthy Lifestyle Eases Heart Impact of High Genetic Risk

Fewer adverse events, less calcification in pooled data

<乌鸦传媒>Treadmill Test Scoring Better With Gender as a Factor

New sex-specific score predicted women's mortality more accurately

<乌鸦传媒>ESC: Winners Emerge in CAD Imaging Showdowns

Promising results for cardiac MRI, MPS, and PET

<乌鸦传媒>ESC: DES or BMS? No Mortality Difference

After 6 years, death was as likely in DES patients as in BMS patients

<乌鸦传媒>Compression Stockings; Stroke Prevention; Stents and Meds

Cardiovascular Daily wraps up the top cardiology news of the week

<乌鸦传媒>EuroPCR: Staged Stenting Undermines SYNTAX II Strategy

Practice of unnecessary "re-touching" in the cath lab needs to go

<乌鸦传媒>SCAI: Cell Tx May Be of Benefit for Refractory Angina

Standard of care toppled even as CD34+ investigation skids to a halt

<乌鸦传媒>Survival Rates Good With VAD for Complicated Acute MI

Despite being sicker to start, outcomes on par with other VAD patients

<乌鸦传媒>ACC: No Benefit for Beta-Blocker Before PCI

IV metoprolol was safe, but disappointing

<乌鸦传媒>Entresto: Why Is There Silence? We're Not Selling iPhones

The drug hailed as a true PARADIGM shift, is slow out of the gate

<乌鸦传媒>Aspirin Before Cardiac Surgery: Not Harmful, But Not Helpful

Death, thrombotic complication, and bleeding risk all unaffected in ATACAS trial

<乌鸦传媒>Thrombectomy Can Be Safe in Kids

But catheter size and smaller burst time are important, case-series suggests

<乌鸦传媒>Morning Break: Your Body on a Coke? No Sex for Grandpa

Health news and commentary from around the Web, gathered by the 乌鸦传媒 staff

<乌鸦传媒>Guidelines Issued for Managing Temperature During CBP

Clinicians now have officially sanctioned procedures to follow

<乌鸦传媒>CardioBrief: Dollars for Heart Docs

Analysis of CMS database shows some docs pocketed millions from drug and device makers.

<乌鸦传媒>Smoking After Stenting Ups Chest Pain

Post-PCI angina more common among smokers.

<乌鸦传媒>Stroke Rounds: Testosterone Shots Tied to Greater Risks?

Bolus injection associated with more events than patch or gels in large analysis.

<乌鸦传媒>Painful Hands, Hurting Hearts?

Symptomatic hand osteoarthritis was linked with coronary heart disease.

<乌鸦传媒>CardioBuzz: Is Marijuana Bad for Your Heart?

Whether marijuana actually causes cardiovascular problems remains unclear, a situation that was not necessarily helped by a study based on 35 reports of cannabis-related complications in France, a country with about 1.2 million recreational users.

<乌鸦传媒>How To Get Medicare To Cover A Spa Trip

Good news for doctors who think their patients need a trip to the spa: Medicare will reimburse, with only two catches.

<乌鸦传媒>How to Replace IV Nitroglycerin in the Shortage

What are the alternatives for IV nitroglycerin in the emergency setting as the shortage saps reserves? Several experts share their thoughts.

<乌鸦传媒>ACC: Gout Drug Tames the Heart

WASHINGTON -- Colchicine may be as effective at reducing multiple recurrences of pericarditis as it is in treating acute episodes and first recurrences.

<乌鸦传媒>Is There a Flaw in This Large Vitamin D Trial?

A co-principal investigator of the VITAL trial addresses the possibility that out-of-study testing of vitamin D levels and initiation of high-dose supplementation could be a limitation, but not a serious one.

<乌鸦传媒>TCT: Removing Clot During PCI Fails in NSTEMI

SAN FRANCISCO -- Aspiration thrombectomy during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) did not improve outcomes in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), a randomized trial showed.

<乌鸦传媒>Xarelto Gets a No for Stent Thrombosis

SILVER SPRING, Md. -- The FDA has rejected an application for a new indication allowing rivaroxaban (Xarelto) to be used to reduce the risk of stent thrombosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome.

<乌鸦传媒>Zilver Stent Recalled, System May Break

Cook Medical's Zilver PTX drug-eluting stent for peripheral artery disease has been recalled because of a defect in its associated delivery system, the company and the FDA said.

<乌鸦传媒>Cardio Notes: Stress Test Finds Heart Disease in Seniors

Researchers are taking a second look at the accuracy of treadmill exercise testing for women over 65. Also this week, the birth of a subspecialty for adults with congenital heart disease and leg artery stenting.

<乌鸦传媒>FDA Adds Diabetes Warning to Statin Label

WASHINGTON -- The FDA is changing the labeling on statins to include a warning about increased risks of hyperglycemia and transient memory problems, but the agency is no longer recommending routine liver function testing.

<乌鸦传媒>Cardiologist Who Revealed Echo Errors Out of a Job

MILWAUKEE -- A cardiologist whose research at a national medical meeting revealed that other doctors at her hospital were misreading a substantial number of diagnostic echocardiograms has been fired by that hospital, the Journal Sentinel and 乌鸦传媒 have learned.

<乌鸦传媒>AHA: Rivaroxaban Scores Win While Omega-3 Flops

CHICAGO -- Good news and not so good news about investigational treatments for atrial fibrillation are featured in this exclusive InFocus video report from the American Heart Association meeting.

<乌鸦传媒>Canadian Politician Comes to U.S. for Heart Surgery

The top politician in Canada's easternmost province has set off fireworks by deciding to go to the U.S. for heart surgery.

<乌鸦传媒>AHA: FDA Drops Clopidogrel Bomb at AHA

ORLANDO -- The FDA has issued a public health advisory warning patients and physicians that concommitant use of clopidogrel (Plavix) and omeprazole (Prilosec and Prilosec OTC) blunts the antiplatelet effect of clopidogrel, so the combination should be avoided.

<乌鸦传媒>ACP: Garlic, Ginseng, Ginkgo Biloba, and Ginger All Bad Actors with Coumadin

PHILADELPHIA - When it comes to adverse events associated with Coumadin (warfarin) therapy, beware of herbs and many supplements beginning with the letter G, according to a University of Washington investigator.

<乌鸦传媒>Morphine for Chest Pain Increases ACS Death Risk

DURHAM, N.C.-Morphine to relieve severe chest pain associated with the non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome may increase the risk of death by nearly 50%, report Duke investigators. They recommend nitroglycerin as first choice.

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