Search results for "Cardiology"
COVID-19 studies look at transmission, cardiac effects, and lung ultrasound as triage
A review found most transmission to be respiratory, while a study suggested protection from eyeglasses. Data from athletes provided insight into cardiac effects, and lung ultrasound may be useful for triage. Philip A. Masters, MD, FACP, looked at how the pandemic has altered medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/22/1.htm
22 Sep 2020
Lessons learned from telemedicine
Although many internists may have felt inexperienced with telemedicine before the pandemic, they could well have been doing it all along.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/10/lessons-learned-from-telemedicine.htm
1 Oct 2020
Smoking cessation study supports ‘never too early, never too late’
Smoking cessation was consistently related to lower risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral artery disease (PAD), although a significantly elevated risk for PAD persisted up to 30 years after smoking cessation.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/23/4.htm
23 Jul 2019
New guideline recommends low-dose aspirin for many fewer patients
Changes to the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guideline include no longer routinely giving low-dose aspirin for primary prevention to adults older than age 70 years or to younger patients who are not at high risk.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/03/26/1.htm
26 Mar 2019
MKSAP Quiz: 6-week history of chest pressure
A 52-year-old woman is evaluated for a 6-week history of chest pressure that occurs during exercise and is relieved with rest. She also had chest pressure during a stressful work meeting last week. Medical history includes hypertension and hyperlipidemia, and medications are hydrochlorothiazide, lisinopril, and atorvastatin. After normal results on physical examination and electrocardiography, what diagnostic test should be performed next?
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/09/10/3.htm
10 Sep 2019
Stopping preventive aspirin associated with 37% increased risk of cardiovascular events
Patients who continued aspirin had a 4.1% yearly incidence of cardiovascular events, compared to 5.4% among those who stopped taking the drug, while the risk of discontinuation corresponded to one additional cardiovascular event for every 74 patients who stopped taking aspirin in a year.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/03/4.htm
3 Oct 2017
Lack of access to PCSK9 inhibitors associated with cardiovascular events
Risk for myocardial infarction, unstable angina, acute ischemic heart disease, ischemic stroke, percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass graft, and cardiac arrest was higher in patients whose prescription for a PCSK9 inhibitor was denied or abandoned.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/30/2.htm
30 Jul 2019
Concomitant influenza infection associated with worse in-hospital outcomes in heart failure patients
Rates of in-hospital mortality, acute respiratory failure with and without mechanical ventilation, and acute kidney injury with and without dialysis were significantly higher in patients admitted with heart failure and influenza infection compared to admissions for heart failure alone.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/08/4.htm
8 Jan 2019
Why medicine should be a laughing matter
Laughter offers health benefits and can be creatively incorporated into clinical practice.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2022/05/why-medicine-should-be-a-laughing-matter.htm
1 May 2022
Internal Medicine Meeting 2022 goes hybrid
It will be the first in-person Internal Medicine Meeting since 2019 in Philadelphia and the first Internal Medicine Meeting held in the Windy City since 1990.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2022/03/internal-medicine-meeting-2022-goes-hybrid.htm
1 Mar 2022