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ESC: Will CvLPRIT Change Practice?
BARCELONA -- Cardiologists react to findings from the CvLPRIT study, which challenge not only traditional thinking but also existing guidelines from both the U.S. and Europe, all of which say that treating nonculprit arteries in STEMI patients may be harmful.
Sep 03, 2014
CCSVI Practices Suboptimal but Patients Don't Mind
DALLAS -- Canadian multiple sclerosis patients who left the country to undergo the controversial procedure called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) often received poor pre- and postoperative care, but most were still relatively satisfied overall, a researcher reported here.
Jun 01, 2014
Go With the Flow When Treating LAD Stenosis
Medical treatment was as effective as surgery for patients with moderate to severe isolated stenosis in the proximal left anterior descending artery who had fractional flow reserve of 0.80 or greater, according to results from a single-center study.
Oct 28, 2011
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 51˶ have learned.
Jan 14, 2011
ACC: Clopidogrel Black Box Likely to Have Immediate Clinical Impact
ATLANTA -- The FDA's decision to add a black box warning to the label of clopidogrel (Plavix) came without warning to doctors attending the American College of Cardiology meeting here. But getting the word out to more than 13,000 cardiologists gathered in this city not an easy task.
Mar 14, 2010
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.
Nov 17, 2009