Three-fold risk of sudden cardiac death from some non-cardiac drugs
...h published (Wednesday 11 May) in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal[1]. In a study of 775 cases of sudden cardiac deaths and over 6,000 matched controls in the Netherlands the researchers found that the use of certain anti-psychotic and gastro-intestinal drugs listed on the website...Too many doctors fail to follow guidelines and to prescribe best treatments for heart patients
...ublished today (Tuesday 3 May) in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal. In the first ... treated by 150 randomly selected cardiologists or cardiology departments in six European countries (France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and the UK). T...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...ng in the new (19 April) issue of Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal. In an editorial [1], Drs Felicita Andreotti and Filippo Crea said that raising awareness that poor quality drugs exist may cause patients excessive worry, but lack of vigilance could generate distrust by consumers...Columbia study shows women benefit from drug-eluting stents as much as men
...d director of clinical services for interventional cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center and director of the Women's Health Initiative at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. "There is no reason that women should be receiving this treatment less than men." In patients with narrowing of arteries d...ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
...explained Dr. W. Robert Morrow, chief of pediatric cardiology at Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) and the Depa.... Morrow. Under Dr. Morrow's direction as chief of cardiology since 1996, the pediatric heart transplant program at ACH has consistently been recognized as one of...Women with heart attacks benefit from stenting
...s director of clinical services for interventional cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and associate professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City and director of the Women's Health Initiative at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Based on the CADI...Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
... F.A.C.C., formerly of Ochsner, who is now head of cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center and professor of medicine and head of the Division of Cardiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In an interview, Dr. Mehra said, "This is an amazing study. It reverses the usual sequen...