Jan 31, 2018
This week's View covers three recent articles: one on sex and race differences in lifetime risk of heart failure; another on the use of stress echocardiography and other parameters for diagnosing low-ejection-fraction, low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis; and the last summarizing the American Heart Association and...
Jan 25, 2018
This week's View discusses the PRAGUE-18 (Comparison of Prasugrel and Ticagrelor in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction) trial and summarizes two articles from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: one on the application of human embryonic stem cells in left ventricular dysfunction and one on the...
Jan 17, 2018
This week's View focuses on two trials that studied interventions in patients with stable ischemic heart disease: ORBITA (Objective Randomised Blinded Investigation With Optimal Medical Therapy of Angioplasty in Stable Angina) and SENIOR (A Randomized Trial of a Bioabsorbable Polymer-Based Metallic DES vs. a BMS With...
Jan 10, 2018
This week's View summarizes two recent articles about clinical trials studying the treatment of stroke: TARDIS (Triple Antiplatelets for Reducing Dependency After Ischaemic Stroke) and DAWN (DWI or CTP Assessment With Clinical Mismatch in the Triage of Wake-Up and Late Presenting Strokes Undergoing...
Jan 4, 2018
This week's View summarizes two recent articles from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. One compares the guidance on primary prevention with statins in the elderly from five major North American and European guidelines, and the other introduces experiences with new transcatheter mitral valve replacement.