Cardiology Today Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Better outcomes sought for women with CVD
• 2014: A year of important advances; challenges ahead Carl J. Pepine, MD, MACC
• Cardiac care outcomes same among rural and urban patients
• Elevated TMAO levels linked to mortality risk in patients with HF
• Many young adults with hypertension fail to receive lifestyle education
• Non–infarct-related artery disease common in patients with STEMI
• Prehospital epinephrine associated with worse outcomes after cardiac arrest
• Rehab-VAD: Cardiac rehabilitation benefited patients with LVADs
• Rosuvastatin failed to reduce fracture risk in JUPITER analysis
• Stroke risk lowered with vorapaxar in patients with prior MI, PAD
• TAVR led to encouraging clinical outcomes in bicuspid aortic valve disease
• AUGMENT-HF: Novel implantable device safe, effective in patients with advanced HF
• DEFEAT-HF: Spinal cord stimulation did not benefit patients with HF
• Extended DAPT benefited patients receiving PES
• FACTOR-64: CCTA screening for CAD failed to reduce 4-year events in diabetes patients
• High-dose autologous cell therapy may benefit patients with LV dysfunction after STEMI
• Incidence of infective endocarditis on rise in England
• LCZ696 prevented worsening of HF
• Supplemental oxygen increased myocardial injury, infarct size in patients with STEMI
• WOSCOPS: 20-year follow-up demonstrates clinical benefit of statins in men
• Trial Scorecard: AVOID
• Trial Scorecard: BASKET-PROVE II
• Trial Scorecard: DEFEAT-HF
• Trial Scorecard: EASY-FIT
• Trial Scorecard: PROTECT AF
• Trial Scorecard: PROTECTION AMI
• Trial Scorecard: Rehab-VAD
• Trial Scorecard: SUPPORT