CardioExchange, an NEJM practice community for medical professionals dedicated to improving cardiac patient care, was active from 2009 to 2015. CardioExchange fostered discussion between clinicians from across the globe.
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Updated estimates of the prevalence of CKD in the United States indicate that the overall national burden of CKD has remained stable, but an increasing proportion is associated with diabetes.
Patients with shrinking cognitive bandwidth may feel their disability keenly in daily life, even if they can pass a controlled test of cognitive capacity. How should clinicians approach and care for them?
Since the introduction of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the late 1970s, the field has evolved immensely with respect to indications, devices, and adjunctive pharmacotherapy. One of the defining transitions was the move from anatomy-guided PCI, based largely on subjective angiographic eyeballing, to physiology-guided revascularization. The Fractional Flow Reserve versus...
The author describes the scientific foundations of two trials comparing how noninvasive and invasive assessments of fractional flow reserve affect clinical outcomes.