PHILADELPHIA — Following left heart catheterization, offloading measured by left ventricular end-diastolic pressure was a notable marker for worse HF hospitalization-free survival over time. According ...

One hundred and twenty patients with mitral stenosis were studied by combined catheterization. Thirty-five of these patients with pure mitral stenosis are the subject of this study. The diagnosis was ...

CMS proposed changing the definition of surgery to account for “surgery-like” procedures in the 2019 proposed payment rule for ASCs and hospital outpatient departments, which could add cardiac ...

Catheterization of the right side of the heart in 1957 disclosed a mitral-valve area of 1.5 square centimeters. Grade 2 to 3 apical systolic and Grade 1 to 2 apical diastolic rumbling murmurs were ...

Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of California, Irvine, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CALORI study calls into question the practice of fasting before cardiac catheterization. Patients not ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Patient well-being was better among individuals allowed more liberal oral intake before entering the catheterization lab, the randomized CALORI trial showed. Compared to standard ...

A long-term analysis designed by Christian Gerges and Irene Lang at the Department of Medicine II of the University Hospital Vienna and MedUni Vienna indicates that one-third of patients with chronic ...