Patients identified by nuclear stress testing as having severe stress-induced myocardial ischemia (lack of blood flow to the heart) are likely to benefit from heart bypass surgery or angioplasty, ...

Combined clopidogrel-aspirin therapy initiated within 72 hours after stroke onset leads to lower risk for new stroke at 90 days among patients with mild ischemic stroke or high-risk transient ischemic ...

Liege, Belgium - A proposed mechanism behind some cases of acute pulmonary edema puts the blame on stress-exacerbated ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR) in patients with systolic HF [1]. The idea, ...

Secondary analyses of the landmark ISCHEMIA trial turned up little to no correlation between the degree of ischemia on dobutamine echocardiography and nuclear imaging and outcomes at around 3 years of ...

Anatomic severity of disease—but not severity of ischemia—predicted the risk of death or MI over 4 years of follow-up in the ISCHEMIA trial, a new analysis shows. However, an invasive strategy as ...

A new study can help guide proper treatment course for patients depending on heart function and severity of heart damage. Patients identified by nuclear stress testing as having severe stress-induced ...