(HealthDay)—Adherence to heart failure process of care measures has improved significantly over the last 10 years for patients with acute decompensated heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and end-stage ...
May 17, 2016
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Dabigatran is one of the new oral anticoagulants which are increasingly used to prevent thrombosis. In case of an emergency (e.g. bleeding or urgent surgery), there are - despite the lack of a specific antidote - effective ...
Apr 8, 2013
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Bleeding events in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are associated with poor outcomes. Risk factors and their associations with in-hospital events in older patients with ACS are not fully understood because older ...
May 25, 2023
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(HealthDay)—From 2003-2007 to 2013-2017, there was an improvement in survival for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, according to a study published online Jan. 21 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Jan 21, 2020
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A hydration regimen tailored to the patient's fluid status was effective in reducing damage to kidneys in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization, according to a study presented at the 24th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular ...
Oct 25, 2012
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Patients with stable hypertension and the most advanced stage of chronic kidney disease (CKD) before dialysis appeared to have a lower risk for long-term dialysis or death if they were treated with the antihypertensive drugs ...
Dec 16, 2013
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Belatacept (trade name: Nulojix) has been approved since June 2011 for adults after a kidney transplant. It is used together with other drugs to prevent the body from rejecting the transplanted organ. After a first early ...
Oct 21, 2015
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The drug crizotinib (trade name: Xalkori) has been available since 2012 for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (bronchial carcinoma) who have a high activity of the enzyme anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and ...
Apr 8, 2016
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(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing coronary angiography, pretreatment with high-dose statins reduces the risk of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CIAKI), according to a meta-analysis published in the Nov. 1 issue ...
Oct 30, 2014
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(HealthDay)—For patients with multiple myeloma (MM), those with renal insufficiency (RI) have an increased risk for disease progression or death, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online Jan. ...
Jan 22, 2021
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