Cardiology Today Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Cardiology Today.

Table of Contents

• Protecting patients during influenza season especially important this year Carl J. Pepine, MD, MACC
• Addition of ICD to CRT therapy linked with reduction in HF events in patients with mild cardiac symptoms
• Adherence to Get With The Guidelines initiative associated with lower mortality for some patients
• Despite limitations, techniques for monitoring patients with HF are improving
• Edge dissection assessed in patients with drug-eluting stents
• Endovascular abdominal aortic repair better than open repair for mortality
• HF-ACTION substudy: More severe resting perfusion abnormalities linked with lower event rates
• Improvements in RV dysfunction small following unloading therapy for decompensated HF
• Portable headphones can interfere magnetically with implanted cardiac devices
• Proposed cutbacks to Medicare may threaten rural cardiac centers
• Proposed tax on sugar-sweetened beverages could generate revenue, reduce obesity rates
• RATIO study: Lupus anticoagulant risk factor for arterial thrombotic events
• Repeat catheter ablation associated with freedom from AF in patients where first procedure failed to contain AF
• Statement emphasizes link between severe mental illness, CVD, diabetes
• Updating terminology for women with heart disease may help refine diagnosis, treatment
• Ventricular venous anatomy may be abnormal in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries
• Warfarin given at therapeutic INR during pulmonary vein isolation yielded no additional bleeding complications
• New taxes in health care legislation may affect imaging centers
• Bundled medication associated with reduced risk for CV hospitalization
• Marker of diastolic function correlates with pulmonary capillary wedge pressure in setting of atrial fibrillation
• Updated guidelines recommended regarding percutaneous treatment of unprotected left main coronary disease
• For James T. Dove, MD, pursuing one’s vision is key to personal, professional success
• New approaches to eptifibatide administration Emily Young Breedlove, PharmD, BCPS