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Author(s):
Robert C Hendel
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3 years ago
Background
Heart disease, specifically coronary artery disease (CAD), is the leading cause of death and disability among both men and women in the US. Reductions in blood supply due to narrowings of the arteries that supply the heart muscle with oxygen and nutrients (coronary arteries) result in chest pain and shortness of breath and may lead to permanent scarring of the heart muscle, as in the…
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Author(s):
Neal W White Jr
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3 years ago
Hospital to Home (H2H) is a national quality improvement initiative of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). It builds on the success of the ACC Door-to-Balloon Alliance for Quality and the IHI 100K Lives and 5 Million Lives campaigns. The goal of the H2H initiative is to reduce 30-day all-cause readmission rates for patients discharged with…
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Author(s):
Joseph P Drozda Jr
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3 years ago
Since its foundation six decades ago, the goal of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) has been to improve the quality of cardiovascular care. The College’s founders initially sought to accomplish this goal by providing the College’s members with access to high-quality educational opportunities such as the ACC’s highly successful annual scientific sessions. In 1984, the quest for improved…
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Author(s):
Giuseppe Rosano
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Richard Henry P Tiongco
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Rungroj Krittayaphong
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et al
Start date:
Oct 05, 2022
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Author(s):
Steve Attanasio
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Raed Al Dallow
,
Sandeep Nathan
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3 years ago
While acute coronary syndromes inclusive of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have been described in patients with polycythemia vera (PCV), optimal pharmacologic and interventional management strategies in the setting of drastically elevated platelet counts remain unclear.1 To our knowledge this is the first reported case of STEMI with massive thrombus burden in a patient with PCV…
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Author(s):
Mark Huffman
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Vallerie V McLaughlin
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3 years ago
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (formerly referred to as primary pulmonary hypertension) is an uncommon yet progressively fatal disease defined by the presence of mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than 25mmHg at rest or greater than 30mmHg with exercise as tested by right heart catheterization in the absence of other etiologies for pulmonary hypertension. Across several studied…
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Author(s):
Biswajit Kar
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Reynolds M Delgado III
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3 years ago
Cardiogenic shock (CGS) results in inadequate end organ perfusion and is associated with high mortality. For patients presenting with CGS following myocardial infarction (MI), reported rates of mortality range between 55% and 80% despite aggressive pharmacological therapy and use of the intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP). Patients with CGS due to ventricular septal defect (VSD) or ventricular…
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Author(s):
William E Hellenbrand
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3 years ago
Interventional Techniques to Treat Congenital Heart Disease
Congenital heart disease has been traditionally treated with surgery; however, with the development of interventional cardiology, patients are now benefiting from minimally invasive techniques.
Traditionally, open-heart surgery was performed to treat congenital stenoses and perform device closures for septal defects and other vascular…
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Author(s):
Mark Huffman
,
Vallerie V McLaughlin
Added:
3 years ago
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (formerly referred to as primary pulmonary hypertension) is an uncommon yet progressively fatal disease defined by the presence of mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than 25mmHg at rest or greater than 30mmHg with exercise as tested by right heart catheterization in the absence of other etiologies for pulmonary hypertension. Across several studied…
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Author(s):
Jennifer Mieres
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Leslee J Shaw
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Robert C Hendel
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et al
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3 years ago
The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), founded in 1993, is a professional medical society whose mission is to foster optimal delivery of nuclear cardiology services through professional education and leadership in the establishment of standards and guidelines for the practice of nuclear cardiology. ASNC will from time to time publish Position, Policy or Consensus Statements, which…
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