Saphenous vein graft patency after coronary artery bypass grafting failure rates are as high as 40% at 18 months. How many of these failures are due to the discontinuation of clopidogrel is the subject of this observational study done at a regional heart center in the Southern California Kaiser system that includes detailed pharmacy records.
The relationship between neurologic complications of infective endocarditis (IE), urgent valve surgery, and outcomes is poorly understood. Thus, these investigators performed a retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected database of IE cases from 1984-2009 in seven Spanish hospitals.
