Using a DCB that releases sirolimus over an extended period of time appears to be both safe and effective when treating patients who present with NSTEMI or unstable angina.
The popular drugs, originally developed to treat diabetes, were also associated with an improved survival rate. Benefits were seen in patients who did and did not lose significant weight as a result of treatment.
Published in Clinical Imaging, the responses indicate that Trump administration policies have made it more difficult to acquire funding and collaborate with other researchers.
The FDA-led Sentinel Initiative is tapping Oracle’s life-sciences division, Cerner Enviza, to spearhead development of AI tools for rendering EHR-bound clinical notes as usable pointers for clinicians and researchers.
People suddenly stricken with a cardiovascular crisis often survive and recover as long as they’re transported ASAP to a hospital that has two attributes: expertise in emergency heart care and capacity to accommodate the incoming episode.
In PRF procedures, a probe is used to intermittently apply energy directly to the dorsal root ganglia, which is often where pain and neurologic symptoms associated with sciatica originate.
Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles combined multimodal brain MRIs with clinical and personal data from 183 men and women to identify sex-specific brain signatures that could be indicative of what causes a person to develop obesity.
Most patients who received mechanical ventilation for COVID-19 at a busy European hospital not only survived but also showed no scarring or thickening on lung CT at two years post-discharge.
Eric Secemsky, MD, told Cardiovascular Business that a lack of training is one of the biggest factors limiting the use of intravascular imaging-guided PCI among interventional cardiologists.
