PARIS — A percutaneous intervention strategy based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides greater procedural success than an angiography-based strategy for stent optimization in calcified lesions, according to a multicenter randomized controlled trial. In addition to providing a significantly more favorable minimal stent area (MSA), which was the primary endpoint of the trial…
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Deploying and evaluating a machine learning intervention to improve clinical care and patient outcomes is a key step in moving clinical deterioration models from byte to bedside, according to a June 13 editorial in Critical Care Medicine that comments on a Mount Sinai study published in the same issue…
TOPLINE: In the ENGAGES-Canada trial, patients who received electroencephalography (EEG)-guided anesthesia or usual care during cardiac surgery experienced similar rates of postoperative delirium. METHODOLOGY: ENGAGES-Canada was a randomized clinical trial involving 1140 patients aged 60 years or older undergoing cardiac surgery at four Canadian hospitals. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either EEG-guided anesthesia or
LISBON — Patients with decompensated heart failure who have bendopnea on discharge from hospital appear to be at significantly increased risk for all-cause mortality within 2 years, reported investigators The research, presented here at the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (HFA-ESC) 2024 and published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology…
MedPage Today) — HOUSTON — A liberal oxygen intervention to induce hyperoxia improved respiratory disturbances in post-operative patients during recovery from anesthesia, results from a small single-blind trial revealed. In the 10-patient…
Editors’ notes This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: fact-checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread by University of Córdoba Graphical abstract. Credit: Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2024.116357 Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease of unknown origin that affects
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Neurent Medical, a company pioneering innovative non-surgical interventions to treat chronic inflammatory sinonasal diseases, today announced the publication of positive 12-month results from the CLARITY clinical trial in Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. This study demonstrates that treatment with Neurent Medical’s radiofrequency (RF) ablation device, the NEUROMARK system, is safe and resulted in
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Damian Di Florio, Ph.D., remembers the lightning-bolt moment five years ago when he began thinking differently about the questions scientists ask. He was a summer undergraduate student working in the lab of cardiovascular researcher DeLisa Fairweather, Ph.D., when she and another scientist gave a lecture about vitamin D. The lab’s studies