News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: July 15, 2016
Key clinical point: Differing temperatures of hypothermia did not affect death or morbidity in patients who had aortic arch surgery with more than ...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: July 14, 2016
Key clinical point: Operations for acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) have seen significant changes in technique over the past 20 years.
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: July 14, 2016
Key clinical point: Patients undergoing repair of acute type A aortic dissection (ATAD) by lower-volume surgeons have high mortality in comparison ...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: July 14, 2016
Key clinical point: Various clinical guidelines provided five different recommendations for the timing of aortic repair surgery in patients with bi...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: July 13, 2016
Key clinical point: SDHB mutation and tumor size may be better predictors of outcomes in patients with pheochromocytoma and abdominal paragangliom...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: July 13, 2016
Key clinical point: Eight markers may detect silent thoracic aneurysms before rupture.
Major finding: The eight “associates” of TAA in...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: July 13, 2016
Key clinical point: Transfusion of sex-mismatched and non–leukocyte depleted PRBCs may impact survival after cardiac surgery.
Major finding:...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: June 29, 2016
Key clinical point: Physicians have inadequate tools for measuring quality of life in people with type 1 diabetes.
Major finding: Very few PubMed ...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: June 27, 2016
NEW ORLEANS – An investigational endoscopic procedure that aims to disrupt how the gut absorbs nutrients based on the principles of gastric bypass sur...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: June 24, 2016
NEW ORLEANS – When used as an add-on therapy to metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, empagliflozin has sustained safety and efficacy i...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: June 23, 2016
Key clinical point: Bariatric or metabolic surgery is a cost-effective treatment for type 2 diabetes. Major finding: Cost-effectiveness ratios of $...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: June 23, 2016
Key clinical point: Bariatric or metabolic surgery is a cost-effective treatment for type 2 diabetes.
Major finding: Cost-effectiveness ratios of ...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: June 21, 2016
Key clinical point:Hospitalized patients in the general ward with type 2 diabetes mellitus can maintain better glycemic control by using an artifi...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: June 21, 2016
Key clinical point: Use of homografts showed no significant benefit, compared with conventional prosthetic valves when the patient has infective e...
News Author: Richard Mark Kirkner Publish date: June 21, 2016
Key clinical point: The infection resistance of cryopreserved human allografts (CHAs) depends on antibiotic pretreatment during processing.
Major ...
