Michael S. Lauer, MD

Autonomic function and prognosis

Screening for coronary heart disease by means of an imaging test is not supported by evidence and is not endorsed by professional societies or the...

Should patients with coronary artery disease who need noncardiac surgery undergo angioplasty first to lessen their perioperative risk? Is...

Technical advances have substantially improved the clinician's ability to find and describe coronary disease. They also pose a bewildering array...

In patients with a normal resting electrocardiogram and no prior revascularization, a regular exercise stress test without imaging should suffice...

Author:: Ahmed Abdel Latif, MD; Amjad AlMahameed, MD, MPH; Michael S. Lauer, MD

The short answer is yes, but only in the right patients.

Until randomized trials are done, the optimal testing strategy in patients with diabetes will remain subject to lively inferential debate.

How to use the estimated coronary risk in deciding whether to prescribe long-term aspirin therapy, with an algorithm and three brief examples.

Preliminary, mostly observational data indicate that aspirin may counteract ACE inhibitors. We offer recommendations.

Old does not necessarily mean obsolete. The exercise stress test can still provide useful information, provided we ask the right questions.