CardioExchange Archive

January 25th, 2011

AHA Scientific Sessions 2011

CardioExchange Editors, Staff

American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2011 Orlando, FL

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January 25th, 2011

TCT 2011

CardioExchange Editors, Staff

Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2011 San Francisco, CA

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January 25th, 2011

ESC Congress 2011

CardioExchange Editors, Staff

European Society of Cardiology Congress 2011 Paris, France

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January 25th, 2011

ACC.11

CardioExchange Editors, Staff

ACC.11 New Orleans, LA 60th Annual Scientific Session and Expo

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December 28th, 2010

Looking Forward to 2011

CardioExchange Editors, Staff

CardioExchange invited a wide range of members−researchers, teachers, private practice clinicians, and fellows−to offer predictions for 2011. We summarize their lists here and offer a running scorecard. Click the authors’ names to read the full posts. The same CardioExchange members give us their impressions of the most important developments in cardiology in 2010, and you […]

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December 24th, 2010

A Look Back at 2010

CardioExchange Editors, Staff

CardioExchange invited a wide range of members−researchers, teachers, private practice clinicians, and fellows−to give us their impressions of the most important developments in cardiology in 2010. We summarize their lists here and offer a running scorecard. Click the authors’ names to read the full posts.  The same CardioExchange members offered predictions for 2011, and you […]

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December 9th, 2010

The Language of Medicine: Getting to the Heart of Physician-Patient Communication

CardioExchange Editors, Staff

CardioExchange welcomes this guest post, reprinted with permission, from an anonymous medical resident. The post originally appeared on her blog, A Medical Resident’s Journey.  An article in the Wall Street Journal, Taking Medical Jargon Out of Doctor Visits, emphasizes that the use of medical jargon leads to poor communication between physicians and patients, and consequently leads […]

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November 30th, 2010

ASCENDing Into the Depths of the Nesiritide Controversy: Questions for Eugene Braunwald

CardioExchange Editors, Staff

Results of ASCEND-HF (Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure Trial), presented as a late-breaking clinical trial at the AHA meeting, showed that there were no significant differences in the pre-specified endpoint of dyspnea among some 7,000 patients with acute, decompensated HF randomized to receive standard therapy and either continuous intravenous nesiritide or placebo. This trial was started in […]

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November 22nd, 2010

A Clinical Conversation with Harlan Krumholz: CardioExchange and AHA

CardioExchange Editors, Staff

In a Journal Watch Clinical Conversations podcast, Editor Harlan Krumholz discusses CardioExchange and what he thinks of the top research presented at AHA 2010. Hear what Harlan has to say about anacetrapib, rivaroxaban, Tele-HF, and more. Also, see Harlan’s posts at Forbes on remote patient monitoring (including his own Tele-HF study) and on the DEFINE study.

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November 8th, 2010

AHA 2010 Coverage Headquarters

CardioExchange Editors, Staff

CardioExchange has been dedicated to bringing you the latest from AHA 2010, and even though the meeting has ended, the buzz has just begun! Check out our coverage below ─ and the great debates these posts have sparked ─ then tell us what you think! Previews: AHA Preview: What Is Clyde Yancy Looking Forward to Seeing? […]

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