Surgical reject Coronary Artery Disease managed by Laser Atherectomy, DEB Angioplasty at Kauvery Hospital Medical Dialogues Bureau16 July 2022 12:23 PM ISTChennai: Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu has announced a...
Prothrombin time-international normalized ratio tied to increased all-cause mortality Dr.Niharika Harsha B15 July 2022 8:00 PM ISTNew research revealed that high levels of prothrombin time-international normalized ratio (PT-INR) were associated with an increased risk of all-cause...
CABG Potentially Beneficial to Patients Over Age 80 with Reasonable Surgical Risk Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli22 Jun 2022 8:00 AM ISTPatients over age 80 are considered high-risk candidates for coronary artery bypass grafting, not only because of normal wear and tear on the body,...
Paradox: High HDL-C levels tied to higher mortality risk in CAD patients, JAMA Study Medha Baranwal19 Jun 2022 7:30 PM ISTUSA: Using data from two prospective cohort studies, in the U.K. and U.S., the researchers in a recent study revealed that both very low and very high...
Rivaroxaban monotherapy reduces subsequent events risk in patients with AF and stable CAD: JAMA Dr. Hiral patel18 Jun 2022 11:30 AM ISTJapan: A post hoc secondary analysis of the AFIRE randomized clinical trial results published in JAMA Cardiology showed that rivaroxaban monotherapy...
Poor R-wave progression linked to sudden cardiac death: Study Dr. Hiral patel11 Jun 2022 10:30 AM ISTFinland: Poor R-wave progression (PRWP) may be associated with adverse prognosis in the general population and with sudden cardiac death (SCD) in...
Cigarette smoking may double risk of developing heart failure, finds study Dr. Prem Aggarwal10 Jun 2022 10:00 AM ISTA new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that people who smoked tobacco cigarettes developed heart...
Stress electrocardiography testing Helps detect coronary artery disease Dr. Nandita Mohan7 Jun 2022 9:00 AM ISTStress electrocardiography (sECG) or treadmill stress testing is a well validated noninvasive diagnostic modality available to clinicians at low cost...
Very high levels of HDL-C tied to higher mortality risk in CAD patients: JAMA Medical Dialogues Editorial Team21 May 2022 10:45 AM ISTUSA: A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association- Cardiology suggests that extremely high HDL-C levels are related to an...
COPD associated with higher degree of coronary artery calcification Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli10 May 2022 7:00 PM ISTPrevious registry studies have given reason to suspect COPD patients more often have coronary disease than what can be expected from smoking habits,...
Aspirin does not cut risk in non-obstructive coronary artery disease Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli29 April 2022 12:45 PM ISTOAK BROOK: Aspirin therapy, as opposed to statin use, for non-obstructive coronary artery disease does not reduce major cardiovascular events,...
FFR-guided PCI No Better Than CABG in Improving QOL: FAME 3 Trial MD Bureau16 April 2022 10:15 AM ISTIn patients with three-vessel coronary artery disease (CAD), large, randomized trials have demonstrated that coronary revascularization improves the...
