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SCAI and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) have published an editorial in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions and the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography addressing concerns regarding the 2015 Appropriate Use of Cardiovascular Imaging in Emergency Department Patients with Chest Pain.
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The guide, which is effective for calendar year 2016, includes descriptions of each applicable CPT code, along with the national average payment for each procedure.
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SCAI and 35 societies have submitted a joint letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) addressing the continuing problem of new tobacco products being introduced into the marketplace without any indication that they have undergone the required premarket review by FDA. The letter requests that FDA explain why the products remain on the market without any enforcement action from the agency.
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In addition to microcephaly worries, a Brazilian case study showed the heart condition hydrops fetalis on fetal ultrasound of a stillborn infant with Zika virus found in the brain and spinal fluid but not the heart upon autopsy.
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Allowing patients to continue taking aspirin before undergoing coronary artery surgery does not have an impact on risks of death, thrombotic complications, or bleeding in the postoperative period, results from the randomized ATACAS trial show. The findings are concordant with current recommendations for administering aspirin prior to CABG.
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Medscape
The insights provided by coronary CT angiography are similar to what is available from quantitative coronary angiography, suggests a prospective comparative study that gave CCTA the edge because it's also noninvasive and offers some other advantages over radiographic angiography.
The study is described as "the first prospective, head-to-head multicenter comparison" of CCTA and QCA against what was taken as the gold standard, invasive measurement of fractional flow reserve.
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Adults who received atorvastatin before, during and after cardiac surgery did not have a reduction in the risk of acute kidney injury compared with a placebo group, according to a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized trial. The researchers defined acute kidney injury as an increase of 0.3 milligrams per deciliter in serum creatinine concentration within 48 hours of surgery.
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Erlanger Medical Center has long been providing exceptional care, but they have recently improved their STEMI patient outcomes using Pulsara's STOP STEMI app. Read their news story here.
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Women receiving newer generation drug-eluting stents are more likely to experience long-term chest pains than are men getting the same devices, a pooled trial analysis showed. At one year post-implantation, female gender was an independent predictor of chest pain both during daily activities ) and at rest, Clemens von Birgelen, MD, PhD, of University of Twente in the Netherlands, and colleagues found.
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Medscape
Cardiologists commonly fail to recognize that an outpatient with stable CAD has had recent chest pain, so they do not escalate angina treatment, a study of more than 1000 outpatients from the Angina Prevalence and Provider Evaluation of Angina Relief trial suggests.
In a single office visit, the patients completed the Seattle Angina Questionnaire indicating how often they had recent chest pain, and at the end of the office visit, the physicians, who were blinded to patients' SAQ scores, rated the patients' angina frequency.
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MD Magazine
The results of the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy versus Stenting Trial study are in.
In the final analysis, stent-assisted carotid angioplasty proved equal to carotid endarterectomy CEA in stroke prevention for patients with carotid-artery stenosis.
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