What is the Value of CT Angiography for Patients with Acute Chest Pain? [0.03%]
急性胸痛患者的CT冠脉造影检查的价值是什么？
Hector M Medina,Carlos A Rojas,Udo Hoffmann
Hector M Medina
Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is an innovative technique to visualize the coronary arteries in patients with suspected coronary artery disease. CCTA has been validated in patients with non acute symptoms. Because of its high negative predi...
Alexander M Clark,Patricia Davidson,Kay Currie et al.
Alexander M Clark et al.
Heart failure (HF) self-care relates to the decisions made outside clinical settings by the individual with HF to maintain life, healthy functioning, and well-being. The people who help patients most (ie, caregivers/family members) should b...
Critical limb ischemia [0.03%]
下肢严重缺血
Andres Schanzer,Michael S Conte
Andres Schanzer
Critical limb ischemia (CLI), defined as chronic ischemic rest pain, ulcers, or gangrene attributable to objectively proven arterial occlusive disease, is the most advanced form of peripheral arterial disease. Traditionally, open surgical b...
Principled versus statistical thinking in diagnosis and treatment of stroke [0.03%]
脑卒中的诊断和治疗应坚持原则性而非统计学思维
Cathy M Helgason,Thomas H Jobe
Cathy M Helgason
Medical science is now synonymous with probability-based statistics. Statistics deals with a group; it does not need probability theory. Probability theory is consistent with the worldview that the universe is infinite, bounded, random, and...
Hermelinda G Abcede,Bruce Ovbiagele
Hermelinda G Abcede
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in the elderly, affecting 1 in 20 adults over the age of 70 years. Stroke is a major yet highly preventable complication of AF, and the strokes related to AF often are disabling...
Alpesh Amin,David Likosky
Alpesh Amin
Stroke care has become progressively more complicated with advances in therapies necessitating timely intervention. There are multiple potential providers of stroke care, which traditionally has been the province of general neurologists and...
Lara M Wittine,William R Auger
Lara M Wittine
The pulmonary hypertension (PH) and right heart dysfunction that results from chronic thromboembolic involvement of the pulmonary vascular bed is potentially curable with surgical endarterectomy. Over the past several decades, growing clini...
Combined PCI and minimally invasive heart valve surgery for high-risk patients [0.03%]
高危患者的杂交PCI和微创心脏瓣膜手术
Ramanan Umakanthan,Marzia Leacche,Michael R Petracek et al.
Ramanan Umakanthan et al.
Combined coronary artery valvular heart disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the adult patient population. The standard treatment for such disease has been open heart surgery in which coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)...
Arun Kumar,Clifford Kavinsky,Zahid Amin et al.
Arun Kumar et al.
Surgically placed valve conduits between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery often fail within 10 years. The failure may be the result of insufficiency, stenosis, or often a combination of the two. Pulmonic valve insufficiency may lead...
Faisal Alqoofi,Ted Feldman
Faisal Alqoofi
Percutaneous therapy for mitral repair has emerged over the past several years as an investigational option for treating mitral regurgitation (MR). A variety of novel methods to treat MR using a percutaneous route have been developed. Most ...