ALLMedicine™ Congestive Heart Failure Center

Jan 22nd, 2022 - While 99m Tc-pyrophosphate scintigraphy is clearly useful in diagnosing transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), it is necessary to know the pitfalls of this test for proper use. We present a rare case of concurrent ATTR-CM and amyloid ligh...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Doxorubicin is an effective chemotherapeutic agent prescribed to treat solid tumors (e.g., ovary, breast, and gastrointestinal cancers). This anti-cancer drug has various side effects, such as allergic reactions, cardiac damage, hair loss, bone ma...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Current guidelines restrict the use of inotropes for the treatment for heart failure (HF) unless the patients are hypotensive or hypoperfused because of safety concerns. This study sought to characterise the contemporary real-world use of inotrope...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Patients with heart failure (HF) are at an increased risk of hospital admissions. The aim of this report is to describe the feasibility, safety and accuracy of a novel wireless left atrial pressure (LAP) monitoring system in HF patients. The V-LAP...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Primary Aldosteronism (PA) is the most common cause of secondary hypertension, accounting for 6-8% of hypertension and 14-25% of resistant hypertension. This prevalence translates to approximately 1 in 30-50 adults or about 4,000,000 Americans wit...

Apr 27th, 2021 - The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to provide clinical recommendations on the appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department (ED) or inpatient settings...

May 19th, 2018 - Since the 2002 American Heart Association scientific statement "Fish Consumption, Fish Oil, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, and Cardiovascular Disease," evidence from observational and experimental studies and from randomized controlled trials continues to e...

Jan 19th, 2016 - The incident hemodialysis (HD) population is aging, and the elderly group is the one with the most rapid increase. In this context it is important to define the factors associated with outcomes in elderly patients. The high prevalence of comorbidi...

Feb 19th, 2011 - The stroke rate in atrial fibrillation is 4.5% per year, with death or permanent disability in over half. The risk of stroke varies from under 1% to over 20% per year, related to the risk factors of congestive heart failure, hypertension, age, dia...

Dec 17th, 2009 - Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used, but have risks associated with their use, including significant upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding. Older persons, persons taking anticoagulants, and persons with a history of upp...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Preamble Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) eGFR 30 mL/min/1.73m2 is a clinical cut point, below which advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) (stage 4 and 5) is associated with a significantly increased risk of mortality and a 50-fold incr...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Primary Aldosteronism (PA) is the most common cause of secondary hypertension, accounting for 6-8% of hypertension and 14-25% of resistant hypertension. This prevalence translates to approximately 1 in 30-50 adults or about 4,000,000 Americans wit...

Jan 12th, 2022 - STUDY PLAN The Study will be conducted at Saint Louis University. The investigators plan to conduct a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in 44 men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer who will receive ADT with long actin...

Jan 12th, 2022 - Both ACE inhibitor and ARB produce inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system, so clinicians have regarded ACE inhibitor and ARB as effectively equivalent, including blood pressure lowering, improvement of congestive heart failure symptoms, inhibi...

Jan 11th, 2022 - Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), selective for inhibition of cyclooxygenase (COX)-2, alleviate pain and inflammation by suppressing COX-2-derived prostacyclin (PGI2) and prostaglandin (PG) E2 (1). However, eight placebo-controlled cl...

Jan 4th, 2022 - The high-precision allogeneic cellular therapy Orca-T significantly improved graft-vs-host disease (GVHD)–free relapse-free survival (RFS) and time to engraftment, significantly reduced acute and chronic GVHD, and showed a trend toward improved ov...

Dec 15th, 2021 - Automated voice analysis using a proprietary smartphone app can detect pulmonary fluid overload with high accuracy in patients admitted with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), a new study suggests. Researchers envision the technique as a po...

Dec 14th, 2021 - Magrolimab plus combinations of various anti-leukemia therapies are being investigated for efficacy as options for frontline, relapsed/refractory, or maintenance treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to a poster presen...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - The addition of darolutamide (Nubeqa) to docetaxel and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) resulted in a significant improvement in overall survival (OS) compared with docetaxel/ADT alone in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cance...

Nov 29th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A risk score based on readily available variables from patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) accurately predicted the risk of contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) in a modeling study. ...