January 31st, 2011
Learning to Network/Networking to Learn
John Ryan, MD
Last weekend, I attended a heart failure meeting in Florida. It was designed as a small meeting where fellows interested in heart failure got the opportunity to meet with heart failure faculty from across the country. The meeting provided various teaching seminars as well as one-on-one meetings and workshops. It was a unique experience that […]
January 31st, 2011
Women and Younger Patients May Be At Higher Risk For Sprint Fidelis Failure
Larry Husten, PHD
Women, younger patients, those with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and those with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia or channelopathies may be more likely to develop Sprint Fidelis lead failure. Robert Hauser and colleagues at the Minneapolis Heart Institute, the Mayo Clinic, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center analyzed data from 1023 patients who received Fidelis leads and 1668 […]
January 28th, 2011
Justice Department Files New Suit Against Boston Scientific
Larry Husten, PHD
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed another suit against Boston Scientific. The government claims that Guidant (bought by Boston Scientific in 2006) sold the Ventak Prizm 2 and the Renewal 1 and 2 devices even after the company knew they were defective. Earlier this month Boston Scientific was convicted and sentenced in a criminal case to pay […]
January 28th, 2011
Does CRP Level Modify the Benefit of Statins? Paul Ridker Reacts to New Data
Paul Ridker, MD, MPH
CardioExchange welcomes Paul M. Ridker, a leading researcher on the value of C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration as a prognostic marker of cardiovascular risk, to respond to the latest data on CRP and statin therapy from the Heart Protection Study (HPS). The New HPS Findings on CRP: The HPS investigators sought to determine whether statin therapy […]
January 28th, 2011
She Doesn’t Mind that Her Heart Races … Do You?
Alfonso E. Sierra, MD and James Fang, MD
This latest installment in our case discussion series is submitted by Alfonso E. Sierra, MD. We encourage members to submit cases that they believe warrant discussion. Selected cases will be presented to the community, and case authors will receive a $100 Amazon gift card. A 62-year-old woman comes in for a routine exam, with a […]
January 28th, 2011
ATVB 2011
CardioExchange Editors, Staff
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2011 Scientific Sessions Chicago, IL
January 27th, 2011
HPS Results Suggest Baseline CRP Doesn’t Predict Statin Efficacy
Larry Husten, PHD
Analysis of data from the Heart Protection Study (HPS) indicates that a CRP measurement obtained at baseline does not predict the effect of statin therapy. In a paper published online in the Lancet, the HPS Collaborative Group report the results of the more than 20,000-patient HPS study based on CRP category at baseline. As previously reported, […]
January 27th, 2011
Shockable Arrhythmias Less Frequent in the Home
Larry Husten, PHD
Cardiac arrest with a shockable arrhythmia (VF or pulseless VT) is less likely to occur at home than in public, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Myron Weisfeldt and investigators from the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Investigators evaluated nearly 13,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and found that shockable arrhythmias occurred more […]
January 27th, 2011
EPI/NPAM 2011
Danielle Sullivan Douglas, CardioExchange Staff
Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism and Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention 2011 Scientific Sessions Atlanta, GA
January 27th, 2011
End of an Era: Eugene Braunwald Steps Down, Marc Sabatine Assumes Chair of TIMI Group
Larry Husten, PHD
Marc Sabatine has replaced Eugene Braunwald as the chairman of the TIMI study group. Braunwald, who has been the dominant figure in cardiology for many decades, is 81. Sabatine was appointed Vice Chairman of the TIMI group last summer and he assumed the chairman’s role on January 1. Braunwald is not retiring and will continue […]