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Crossing devices offer solutions for failed recanalization
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Inclacumab reduces troponin in NSTEMI
Major finding: In the inclacumab 20 mg/kg group, the drop in troponin I was 22% greater than seen in placebo-treated controls at 16 hours and 24%...
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Big trials deflate off-pump CABG
Major finding: Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery did not differ significantly from on-pump bypass in 1-year rates of death, stroke, MI...
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Neonates at highest risk for Ebstein's malformation treatment
Major Finding: In-hospital mortality was higher among neonatal patients (23%) than in infants (4%), children (0.8%), and adults (1.1%).Data Source...
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Valve-sparing root replacement carries the day
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TAVR trial to assess alternative access sites
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No early cancer risk with donor lungs from heavy smokers
Major Finding: Risk-adjusted median all-cause survival did not differ significantly between patients given lungs from donors who smoked heavily...
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Assay may target early lung cancers for adjuvant therapy
Major Finding: The 5-year actuarial overall survival was 83%, 69%, and 52% among patients in assay-defined low-, medium-, and high-risk groups,...
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Pregnancy and Marfan: New insight into risks
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Anticoagulant dabigatran ups the required dose of heparin
Major finding: Of 38 patients prescribed dabigatran during their hospital stay, 5 (13%) received it for unlabeled indications.Data source: A...