Cardiology

2010 CHEP recommendations for pharmacists.

About 25 years ago, researchers in the Netherlands reported that eating two fish meals a week cut heart attack risk in half. Since then, scientists have been trying—with little success—to figure out how to take the active substances out of fish and encapsulate them.

Researchers question need for genotype testing of response to antiplatelet agents

The glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor tirofiban (Aggrastat) is “non-inferior” to its more expensive counterpart abciximab (ReoPro) in ST-elevation MI patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

Canadian researchers have suggested previously that prevention of catheter thrombosis sometimes seen with the anticoagulant fondaparinux can be attenuated using standard doses of unfractionated heparin.

When it comes to making positive changes in lifestyle and medication adherence among patients following an acute coronary syndrome, nurses trump “usual care” performed by physicians.

Canadian dyslipidemia guidelines criticized for accepting results of ‘biased’ study

Percutaneous coronary intervention is a procedure used to treat the stenotic coronary arteries found in coronary heart disease.