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- Steve Stiles
Publish date: October 11, 2021
Myocarditis linked to the two mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is rare, usually mild and self-limited, and a lot less likely than the usually more severe c...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: October 5, 2021
Many believe AFib is a risk marker for stroke, but new evidence suggests it may be a causal risk factor.
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: September 22, 2021
The approval, based largely on the recently published PORTICO-IDE trial, is for patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at ‘high or extrem...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: September 16, 2021
Trial makes a strong case for the pain usually being a nocebo effect.
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: September 14, 2021
It was hard not to think of the upcoming presentation on EMPEROR-Preserved, with its potentially profound impact on HF management, when new HF guid...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: August 29, 2021
It may be that short bouts of AFib on long-term continuous monitoring aren’t worth seeking out just so anticoagulation can start, even in elderly p...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: August 28, 2021
Heart block by ablation plus CRT emerged as far better than rate-control drug therapy for the trial’s narrow-QRS patients with severely symptomatic...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: August 27, 2021
Used more broadly than now indicated for the PA pressure monitor implant, the strategy may have cut some prepandemic HF admissions. But the trial’s...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: August 25, 2021
But the congress will feature far more than, potentially, results the heart failure world has been longing to see and a raft of new guidelines. Als...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: August 9, 2021
The report raises the possibility that, “for current consumers, drinking red or white wine could potentially be a safer alternative to other types ...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: August 2, 2021
Cerebrovascular protection was far better on DOACs after catheter ablation for VT or extrasystoles in the trial and may yet be further improved.
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: July 29, 2021
It has a simple answer to a seemingly complex issue: how to merge the newly approved with mainstay drug therapies. And it conditionally okays meds ...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: July 20, 2021
The changes emphasize that “statins are safe to prescribe in patients who can become pregnant” and reassure women that harm is unlikely from uninte...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: July 7, 2021
The oldest less often received guideline-specified meds, especially at close to full dosage, maybe because advanced age is seen as an “intrinsic” r...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: June 23, 2021
Still, there was an inconclusive link between statins and incident Alzheimer’s dementia in one subgroup of patients in the trial; researchers cauti...
