Coffee Increases Cardiovascular Risk in Young Adults with Mild Hypertension
Coffee drinking is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events (mainly heart attacks) in young adults (18-45) with mild hypertension,... Read more
Surprise Cardiac Finding Predicts Future Risk
In patients with chronic ischaemic heart disease, a small left ventricle with thick walls, is the strongest predictor of morphologic remodelling,... Read more
Young Women With Diabetes have Six-Fold Risk of Heart Attack
Women aged 45 years and under with diabetes have a six-fold risk of heart attack, according to research presented at ESC Congress. The study... Read more
Spironolactone “A Clear Winner” for Resistant Hypertension
According to the results of the PATHWAY-2 Trial presented at the ESC Congress 2015 in London, the addition of the diuretic spironolactone in patients... Read more
Half-Dose Combo of Common Diuretics a “Win-Win” for Hypertension
The combination of two commonly used diuretics, each at half dose, can significantly reduce blood pressure without the side-effects caused... Read more
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Zoom On: Prof. Mamas A. Mamas
Prof. Mamas A Mamas is a structural interventional cardiologist, treating patients with underlying coronary artery with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in both the elective and emergency setting and undertaking Transcatheter Aortic Valve Interventions (TAVI). He is also the Associate Editor of Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions and leads... Read more
Zoom On: Chelsea Beecher - Innovator of the Year
Chelsea Beecher serves as the Director of Development for the American Heart & Stroke Association in New York City. She led the launch of STEM Goes Red in New York City and received the Innovator of the Year Award in 2018 for this initiative. STEM Goes Red aims to empower young women to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)... Read more
How are robots improving cardiovascular medicine?
Robots were first used in cardiovascular medicine in the late 1990s as a part of the digital revolution . Since then, robotics have been applied to endovascular surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and interventional cardiology, to name a few fields. Robots give medical professionals the ability to diagnose, treat, and intervene more... Read more
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The intensive care unit (ICU) is a complex environment, due to the surroundings Read more
Reputation
Taking control of your reputation has become far more complex in recent decades Read more
Resource Allocation in Healthcare: Have We Misjudged Societal Values?
Equitable Healthcare With increased emphasis on financial constraint... Read more
Radiation Dose: Communicating With Patients
Key Points • Radiology departments need to communicate with patients... Read more
Innovative Solutions Addressing Challenges of Complex Cardiovascular Disease
An integrated approach to interventional cardiovascular medicine... Read more
A multimodal system for the diagnosis of breast cancer: the SOLUS project
SOLUS is developing a multimodal breast imaging system involving diffuse... Read more
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The Task Force® Monitor is the all‐in‐one workstation for continuous noninvasive hemodynamic and autonomic assessment. It is the state‐of‐the‐art diagnostic tool to study syncope and autoregulation of blood pressure and has further established as an...