Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
June 17th, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: June 17th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include a stroke care improvement program in England and waste and harm in the treatment of mild hypertension.
June 10th, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: June 10th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include controlling diabetes through surgery or medical management, the risk for diabetes among those taking statins, and aspirin vs. low-molecular-weight heparin for extended VTE prophlyaxis after total hip replacement.
June 3rd, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: June 3rd
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include pacemaker or ICD surgery without interrupting anticoagulation, the diagnostic accuracy of conventional or age-adjusted D-dimer cut-off values in older patients with suspected VTE, and ICD shocks.
May 28th, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: May 28th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include the mechanisms of acute coronary syndromes, the gap in life expectancy from preventable physical illness (including CVD) in psychiatric patients, and a comparison study of CABG vs. PCI.
May 20th, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: May 20th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include the safety and efficacy of sitagliptin for type 2 diabetes, use of glucocorticoids and the risk of VTE, and forced smoking abstinence.
May 13th, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: May 13th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include the ADVANCE III trial, the latest fish-oil supplement study, and a review of management strategies for asymptomatic carotid stenosis.
May 7th, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: May 7th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week Richard discusses a study on remeasuring CV risk in untreated people at low and intermediate risk.
April 29th, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: April 29th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include the association of perioperative beta-blockade with mortality and CV morbidity following major noncardiac surgery, intestinal microbial metabolism of phosphatidylcholine and CV risk, and more.
April 22nd, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: April 22nd
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include the prevalence of a healthy lifestyle among those with CV disease in high-, middle-, and low-income countries, nonemergency PCI at hospitals with or without on-site cardiac surgery, and coronary artery calcium score prediction of all-cause mortality and CV events in those with type-2 diabetes.
April 16th, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: April 16th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include fibrinolysis or primary PCI in STEMI, the effect of lower sodium intake on health, and the effect of increased potassium intake on CV risk factors and disease.
NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Cardiology Articles- To Lower Stroke Risk in Patients Undergoing Atrial Fibrillation Ablation, Is a Device or a Medication Better?
- Intensive vs. Standard Blood Pressure Lowering in Patients with Diabetes
- Anticoagulation in Patients with Cancer-Associated Pulmonary Embolism: How Long is Long Enough?
- Spironolactone Use After Percutaneous Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction
- CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing for Transthyretin Cardiomyopathy