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Rates of and Factors Associated With Infection in 200,909 Medicare Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Implants: Results From the NCDR

11.08.20141578

What are the rates and predictors of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) infection in a large cohort of Medicare patients?

WPW Syndrome in the Era of Catheter Ablation: Insights From a Registry Study of 2169 Patients

08.08.20142151

What are the long-term outcomes in symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals with a Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) pattern on the electrocardiogram?

Nearly one in six teens and adults who initially survive a stroke before age 50 die over the next decade, a Finnish study showed

07.08.20141625

The mortality rate of people who survived at least a month after having a stroke at age 15 to 49 was 15.7% over a mean 10 years of follow-up and 23.0% cumulatively with up to 17 years of follow-up...

Return to Warfarin Okay After TBI?

06.08.20141660

Restarting warfarin (Coumadin) after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) improved overall outcomes despite the bleeding risk, an observational Medicare study showed.

New class of drug targets heart disease

05.08.20141698

Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a synthetic peptide that could be the first in a new class of drugs to treat heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

ACC/AHA Release Updated Guideline on Perioperative CV Evaluation and Management of Non-Cardiac Surgery Patients

04.08.20142154

The ACC and the American Heart Association have released a new, updated guideline for minimizing the risk of cardiovascular complications before, during and after a patient undergoes non-cardiac surgery.

2014 ACC/AHA/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS Focused Update of the Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease

01.08.20142775

The following are 10 points to remember from the 2014 Focused Update of the Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease (SIHD).