Study Group: Cardiothoracic Surgeons (US)(?)

ACEI are known for their ability to reduce afterload effectively and even to contribute favorably to cardiac remodeling in heart failure. Results described, therefore, are logical, even though some "statistically significant" differences, like reduction of mean pressure by 1 mm Hg, are...

To stent or not to stent: presence and degree of coronary artery disease, effectiveness of medical therapy and significance of symptoms and, therefore, indications for coronary stents placement are determined by very same physicians who place stents. Stents are reimbursed 10-20 times better...

More than half of U.S. adults are overweight, nearly one-quarter are obese and about 10% are morbidly obese. Only effective treatment of morbid obesity is gastric bypass; there is no good treatment for obesity or overweight. Acadesine was shown to be effective in the mice, and if effective in the humans...

Sepsis is a complex clinical syndrome situated in a category including SIRS(systemic inflammatory response syndrome), MOF(multiple organ failure), septic shock etc. If the biomarker is simply diagnostic, just like CRP(C-reactive protein), I doubt it is going to affect management of sepsis. If, however,...

Ekkyo is designing a laser device preventing and reducing scar formation. The size of the scar is almost always a major concern of the patient after any kind of operation including major life-saving cardiovascular procedures, tumor resections, transplants etc. Primary due to patients'...