{"id":34291,"date":"2013-01-21T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=voices&#038;p=34291"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:22:27","slug":"selections-from-richard-lehmans-literature-review-january-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/01\/21\/selections-from-richard-lehmans-literature-review-january-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Selections from Richard Lehman\u2019s Literature Review: January 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CardioExchange is pleased to reprint selections from Dr. Richard Lehman\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/category\/richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals\/\" target=\"_blank\">weekly journal review blog<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/\">BMJ.com<\/a>. Selected summaries are relevant to our audience, but we encourage members to engage with the\u00a0<a title=\"Lehman_8282012\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2013\/01\/21\/richard-lehmans-journal-review-21-january-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">entire blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEJM\u00a0 17 Jan 2013\u00a0 Vol 368<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Review of Drug-Eluting Stents (pg. 254):<\/strong> It\u2019s time to stop watching the snow falling by the lamp-posts, close the curtains, poke the fire and get out some old DVDs. Now what have we here? The Star Wars trilogy, Lord of the Rings, Agatha Christie\u2019s Poirot: the Complete Collection\u2014and oh look, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMra1210816\">Drug Eluting Stents from <em>NEJM<\/em><\/a> studios. Starring Giulio Stefanini as Sirolimus and David Holmes as Paclitaxel. How about it, folks? Nah\u2014let\u2019s have Game of Thrones. We prefer bare metal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lancet\u00a0 19 Jan 2013\u00a0 Vol 381<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (pg. 242):<\/strong> Many Lancet seminars get bogged down in endless genomic detail and speculation, but because most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960397-3\/fulltext\">hypertrophic cardiomyopathy<\/a> has now been shown to be due to mutations of just 11 genes, the authors can concentrate on clinical issues, which they do very well. \u201cAfter more than 50 years, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has been transformed from a rare and largely untreatable disorder to a common genetic disease with management strategies that permit realistic aspirations for restored quality of life and advanced longevity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s topics include a review of drug-eluting stents and a summary of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[821,1640],"class_list":["post-34291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-drug-eluting-stents","tag-hypertrophic-cardiomyop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}