CardioExchange Archive

February 16th, 2015

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: February 16th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include blood pressure lowering in type 2 diabetes and the trajectories of risk after hospitalization for HF, acute MI, or pneumonia.

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January 26th, 2015

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: January 26th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include dietary sodium content, mortality, and CVD risk in older adults, the ROX CONTROL HTN study, and more.

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December 18th, 2014

Demystifying the Taboo of Sex Counseling After Acute MI

Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, MAPP

Stacy Lindau discusses her research group’s study of sexual-activity counseling for adults, age 18 to 55, in the U.S. and Spain during the first month after acute MI.

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March 10th, 2014

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: March 10th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include cognitive function and brain structure in type 2 diabetics after intensive lowering of BP and lipid levels, the association of β-blocker therapy with risks of adverse CV events and deaths in those with ischemic heart disease undergoing noncardiac surgery, and more.

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February 25th, 2014

Is Post-MI Statin Therapy Appropriately Intensive?

Suzanne V. Arnold, MD, MHA

Suzanne V. Arnold discusses her research group’s study of statin initiation, intensification, and maximization after acute myocardial infarction.

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February 3rd, 2014

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: February 3rd

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include biomarkers for systemic sclerosis, the effectiveness of ICDs for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death, and more.

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January 30th, 2014

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: January 30th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include articles on the FDA’s premarket approval of cardiac implantable electronic devices, the Stryker Wingspan stent system, and more.

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December 17th, 2012

Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: December 17th

Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP

This week’s topics include a study on ICD programming to reduce inappropriate therapy and mortality, a clinical review of diagnosing and managing supraventricular tachycardia, the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, and more.

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September 4th, 2012

You Got the Criminal. But What About the Bystander?

Mark Dayer, MD PhD FRCP and James Fang, MD

A drug-eluting stent is successfully implanted after an acute inferior MI in a fit 70-year-old man. What do you do for the bystander disease detected at the LAD/D1 junction?

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August 23rd, 2012

New DES Get COMFORTABLE with AMI

Richard A. Lange, MD, MBA and L. David Hillis, MD

The use of drug-eluting stents (DES) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has recently generated concern. In two meta-analyses (De Luca et al and Kaleson et al) , the use of early-generation DES resulted in a lower risk of repeat revascularization compared with bare-metal stents (BMS) in patients with AMI, but the DES group had a 2-fold increased […]

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