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Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a term used to designate a level of cognitive change in between normalcy and dementia. Alzheimers disease (ALZ) continues to be an individually and epidemiologically compelling disorder, with only modest therapeutic advances in the previous decade.
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Recurrent MI a major cause of death in post MI left-ventricular
dysfunction patients.
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Body size is not a significant predictor of CABG mortality.
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Based on a large national database of heart valve patients, a risk score has been developed to predict operative mortality for any valve surgery.
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Asymptomatic atrial fibrillation occurs commonly after radiofrequency ablation procedures for atrial fibrillation. Thus, a symptom only based follow-up substantially overestimates the true success rate of AF ablation procedures.
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This system may be an alternative therapeutic strategy for patients at risk of stroke who have contraindications for long-term warfarin anticoagulation.
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High-risk patients benefit from perioperative beta-blockers when undergoing major noncardiac surgery according to new study.
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Acute hyperglycemia, not long-term glycemic control, are not predictive of survival after myocardial infarction.
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These 2 cases demonstrate a tragic complication of natalizumab therapy in this promising novel immune modulatory therapy, and the difficulties of predicting late stage drug failures in the difficult and costly process of drug development.
