Cardiothoracic
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Delayed Surgery a Plus for Blunt Aortic Injury
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Infusions Didn't Lower Cardiac Surgery-Related Kidney Injury
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Stress Echo in Asymptomatic Revascularized Patients Not Useful
Major Finding: Exercise stress echocardiography can identify the small minority (13%) of post-PCI and post-CABG patients who are at higher...
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Act 2 Opens for Stem-Cell Heart Treatments
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Obesity Paradox Also Applies to CABG Patients
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Two Million Americans Estimated to Have Congenital Heart Disease
Major Finding: About 2 million American adults and children were living with a congenital heart disease as of 2010.Data Source: The estimate came...
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Two More Clopidogrel Resistance Genes Found
Major Finding: The overall frequency of the ATP2B2 variant linked to platelet activity in the presence of clopidogrel is 27% in the white...
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CABG Survival Beats PCI in Big U.S. Dataset
Major Finding: Adjusted mortality in U.S.
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Paravalvular Regurgitation Shown Major TAVR Limitation
Major Finding: Two years after intervention, 48% of TAVR patients had trace or no paravalvular aortic regurgitation vs.
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CORONARY Trial Fails to Show Superiority of Off-Pump CABG
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Four Common Comorbidities Hike Risk of Late Post-TAVI Death
Major Finding: After a median follow-up of 3 years, 67% of deaths were of noncardiac origin, 26% were from cardiac causes, and 7% were of unknown...