Taking a high dose of icosapent ethyl significantly reduces the occurrence of first, subsequent and total ischemic events, including heart attacks, strokes and related deaths, among people at high cardiovascular risk despite already being on statin therapy. These findings came from research presented at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 68th Annual Scientific Session, March 16-18 in New Orleans.
Structural heart interventions represent one of the fastest growing segments of cardiology, as the number of devices to ...
Interview with Frederick Masoudi, M.D., FACC, FAHA, professor of cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital, and ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
Training interventional radiologists to perform endovascular thrombectomies results in positive outcomes for patients experiencing stroke, according to a study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting, March 23-28 in Austin, Texas.1 Expanding access to this treatment provides patients timely access to this gold-standard treatment.
March 27, 2019 —New data from a four-week extension of the landmark PIONEER-HF Trial showed the drug sacubitril ...
The fingerprints of value-added medicine were all over products and works-in-progress on the exhibit floor of the annual ...
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
March 27. 2019 — A newly released expert consensus statement provides recommendations for the safe and effective ...
March 27, 2019 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to update its national coverage policy ...
Kim Allan Williams, Sr., M.D., chief of the Division of Cardiology and the James B. Herrick Professor at Rush University ...
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine now has access to the first Ultra-High Resolution computed tomography (UHR CT) system for research capabilities, delivering twice the resolution of today’s CT systems, thanks to the installation of the Aquilion Precision from Canon Medical Systems USA Inc. The system will be used to expand research capabilities in studies of liver disease and bone loss, as well as investigations in lung disease and coronary artery disease.
Khaldoun Tarakji, M.D., MPH, staff physician in the Section of Electrophysiology and Pacing in the Robert and Suzanne ...
March 26, 2019 — A toilet seat-based cardiovascular monitoring system created by a team of Rochester Institute of ...
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
Right heart failure (RHF) is a syndrome characterized by the inability of the right ventricle (RV) to support optimal ...
March 26, 2019 — Level Ex, creators of medical video games for physicians, expanded into cardiology with the launch of ...
William Pinsky, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist and CEO of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates ...