International expert panel provides consensus statements on the use of platelet function and genetic testing for guiding antiplatelet treatment after percutaneous coronary intervention.
Myocardial-perfusion cardiovascular MRI is noninferior to invasive angiography and fractional flow reserve for guiding coronary revascularization in patients with stable angina and risk factors for coronary artery disease.
or patients undergoing bariatric surgery, use of prophylactic inferior vena cava filters is associated with worse clinical outcomes and increased use of health care resources.
Patients with heart failure, severe pulmonary hypertension, and a preserved ejection fraction of ≥50% had a worse prognosis when compared with other patients with heart failure and severe pulmonary hypertension.
Three large drug makers have launched a legal challenge against the Trump administration’s rule requiring the prices of drugs to be included in television ads.
Compared with tricuspid aortic stenosis, patients who underwent TAVR for bicuspid aortic stenosis had no significant difference in mortality, but had increased 30-day risk of stroke.
Patients with pulmonary arterial or distal chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension were able to increase 6-minute walk distance and improve physical status on domiciliary oxygen therapy.
Use of pantoprazole for up to three years to prevent upper gastrointestinal events in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy with aspirin and/or rivaroxaban has a similar safety profile to placebo except for an increased risk for enteric infections.
In a large, multicenter cohort of patients with heart failure reduced ejection fraction, changes in medications were associated with rapid improvements in patients’ health status, as measured by the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire.
At a clinically relevant dose, RVX208 improved hemodynamics and reversed pulmonary vascular remodeling in certain pulmonary arterial hypertension models in rats.
Investigators sought to determine whether measurements of right ventricle extracellular volume are associated with noninvasive measures of pulmonary artery stiffness.
