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AHA 2018 | Canakinumab Reduces Hospitalization for Cardiac Failure in Respondents

The benefit was dose-dependent reduction, regardless the presence of absence of baseline cardiac failure. Patients with prior...

Safety of Combining New Anticoagulant Agents and Dual Antiplatelet Therapy

Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia and its combination with a history of acute myocardial infarction...

New Anticoagulant Agents in Atrial Fibrillation in Latin American Patients, Specifically

There is limited information on the use of antithrombotic therapies and their outcomes in Latin American patients...

Galileo: Rivaroxaban After TAVR Stopped Due to Early Event Rates

Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) randomized to rivaroxaban in the GALILEO trial experienced higher risk...

Is Stage 1 Hypertension as Defined in ACC/AHA Guidelines Associated with Any Events?

New information has been published fast, and what we thought we knew about hypertension has also changed...

The 10 most read articles of September

1- High-Sensitivity Troponins Turned All Events into Infarctions; the 4th Universal Definition Clarifies Things Myocardial infarction or myocardial...

TCT 2018 | OAC-ALONE: Anticoagulation Alone 1 Year After Stenting in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Up to now, there had been no randomized controlled trial assessing oral anticoagulation alone vs. oral anticoagulation...

What to Do with Blood Pressure Levels Between 130/80 and 139/89 mmHg

The decision to be made with a treatment-free patient with systolic blood pressure over 160 mmHg or diastolic...