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- 1From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe CURRENT-OASIS 7 investigators have compared double-dose and standard-dose clopidogrel, as well as high and low doses of aspirin, in patients referred for early PCI. Patients received a 600 mg loading dose of...
- 2From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe clinical presentation of pulmonary embolism (PE) varies widely, ranging from only limited symptoms to severe cardiogenic shock. Treatment of PE comprises initial therapy--with low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH),...
- 3From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedUnfractionated heparin is the standard anticoagulant used in interventional cardiology. Despite being used for the past 20 years in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (POI), there are insufficient...
- 4From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIntra-aortic balloon counterpulsation pumps (IABPs) are efficacious in treating cardiogenic shock and are often inserted prophylactically in hemodynamically stable patients who are undergoing high-risk percutaneous...
- 5From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedEarly autumn in the northern hemisphere was marked by major changes to official recommendations for management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The European society of Cardiology has produced new guidelines on...
- 6From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedHypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common genetic heart disease and is associated with sudden cardiac death and development of heart failure. Risk stratification currently relies only on clinical risk factors,...
- 7From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedResearchers from the Netherlands have reported that, among patients with a history of myocardial infarction, dietary supplementation with margarine containing low doses of omega (n)-3 fatty acids does not reduce the...
- 8From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWhady Hueb and colleagues have published the 10-year follow-up of MASS II, a single-center randomized controlled trial comparing CABG surgery, PCI using bare-metal stents, and medical therapy in patients with...
- 9From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWe would like to thank Brigid Lynch and her colleagues (Lynch, B. M., Healy, G. N., Dunstan, D. w. & Owen, N. sedentary versus inactive: distinctions for disease prevention. Nat. Rev. Cardiol. doi:10.1038/...
- 10From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedSeveral single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been associated with differential response to clopidogrel therapy. Carriers of loss-of-function alleles of CYP2C19, which encodes a cytochrome P450 enzyme involved in...
- 11From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedPatients with diabetes mellitus and hypertension are at high cardiovascular risk and treatment guidelines recommend aggressive blood pressure (BP) control. However, a reanalysis of data from the previously published...
- 12From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedCurrent medical therapies for chronic stable angina pectoris do not always render patients free of symptoms and may not be well tolerated. Xanthine oxidase inhibition with drugs such as allopurinol might be a promising...
- 13From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe hope that a simple, affordable, and safe homocysteine-lowering intervention with folic acid and vitamin [B.sub.12] would improve outcomes for patients with established cardiovascular or renal disease has been...
- 14From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWe read with great interest the Perspectives article from Charansonney and Despres in the August 2010 issue of Nature Reviews Cardiology (Charansonney, O. L. & Despres, J. -P. Disease prevention--should we target...
- 15From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedPulmonary hypertension (PH) with left-sided heart disease is defined, according to the latest Venice classification, as a Group 2 PH, which includes left-sided ventricular or atrial disease, and left-sided valvular...
- 16From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe findings of the COPPS trial, which have been published in the European Heart Journal by Massimo Imazio and colleagues, indicate that colchicine safely prevents the postpericardiotomy syndrome (PPS) in patients who...
- 17From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe utility of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) as a diagnostic technique is well established. CMR enables tissue characterization, distinction between myocardial scar tissue and viable tissue, and evaluation of...
- 18From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedArterial hypertension is a common health problem that affects 25% of the adult population in industrialized societies, and is a major risk factor for myocardial infarction and stroke. However, the pathogenesis of...
- 19From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedPrasugrel, ticagrelor, cangrelor, and elinogrel--the most-recently developed inhibitors of the [P2Y.sub.12] receptor--are more-potent and faster-acting antiplatelet alternatives to clopidogrel. A meta-analysis shows...
- 20From: Nature Reviews Cardiology. (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAnxiety has been shown to have prognostic importance in the development of coronary heart disease in initially healthy adults. This finding highlights the need of future research that includes representative samples of...