CardioExchange Archive

February 13th, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Weekly Review: Week of February 13th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include communicating with patients about screening and treatment and the association between blood-pressure-lowering drugs and gout.

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February 6th, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Weekly Review: Week of February 6th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include the U.S. obesity plateau, the pros and cons of state-of-the-art CMR, and the MI mortality decline in European countries.

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January 30th, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Weekly Review: Week of January 30th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include lifetime cardiovascular risks, anticoagulation self-monitoring, opting for thrombolytics over late transfer for PCI, exercise’s antidepressant effect, and the worry that statins can induce diabetes.

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January 23rd, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Weekly Review: Week of January 23rd

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include bridging antiplatelet therapy in patients undergoing CABG, cognitive and neurologic outcomes after CABG, using IV beta-adrenergic agonists
during acute respiratory distress syndrome, and pulmonary embolism risk in those admitted to the hospital for an auto-immune disorder.

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January 17th, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Weekly Review: Week of January 16th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include acute MI and potassium levels, cardiac arrest during long-distance running, the anticoagulant idrabiotaparinux, and managing hypertension in the very elderly.

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January 12th, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Weekly Review: Week of January 9th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics: bariatric surgery, length of stay and MI, secondary prevention after ACS, and vorapaxar

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