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JEFFERSON CITY, MOWhile Republican senators supported Gov. Matt Blunts plan to revamp the states Medicaid program with the initial step of removing more than 100,000 people from the program, Democrats labored in mid-March to delay a vote on the legislation.
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Pulmonary vein stenosis is a significant complication of atrial fibrillation ablation procedures that can occur insidiously late after the ablation.
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Patients with HCM exhibit a high frequency of ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias during ambulatory ECG monitoring, but sudden death is uncommon and not predicted by arrhythmias.
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The possibility of a bird flu pandemic has health officials worldwide in a high state of alert.
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Seven trials comparing drug eluting stents to each other
or bare metal stents were presented. In general, they showed that
drug eluting stents were superior to bare metal stents, but among the
drug eluting stents, the data favored sirolimus eluting stents.
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Intensive lipid-lowering therapy with 80 mg of atorvastatin per day in patients with stable CHD provides significant clinical benefit beyond that afforded by treatment with 10 mg of atorvastatin per day.
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In patients 75 years of age or younger who have myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation and who receive aspirin and a standard fibrinolytic regimen, the addition of clopidogrel improves the patency rate of the infarct-related artery and reduces ischemic complications.
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In patients with heart failure and cardiac dyssynchrony, cardiac resynchronization improves symptoms and the quality of life and reduces complications and the risk of death.
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