June 30th, 2014
Registry Study Offers Reassurance About Newer Drug-Eluting Stents
Larry Husten, PHD
Findings from a large ongoing registry study provide some reassurance about the long-term safety of new-generation drug-eluting stents (DES) in patients with STEMI who undergo primary PCI. The results are published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. SCAAR (Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry) investigators analyzed data from 34,000 primary PCI patients who […]
September 16th, 2013
Combining Randomized Trials And Registries: A New Paradigm
John S Rumsfeld, MD, PhD
Ultimately, we need clinical trials to know what drugs and medical devices work. Without them, we will not have the evidence we need for clinical practice guidelines, and clinical care will not evolve. But traditional clinical trial approaches are not sustainable – too expensive and too inefficient. The new hope for clinical trials is to […]
NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Cardiology Articles- Transcatheter Valve Replacement for Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
- Time in Blood Pressure Target Range and Outcomes in Hypertension: Real-World Data
- When to Start Anticoagulation After Ischemic Stroke in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
- Aortic-Valve Replacement vs. Clinical Surveillance for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis
- Secondary Hypertension in Young Adults