The University of Cincinnati's Pooja Khatri spoke with Medscape on a new American Heart Association advisory recommending endovascular therapy (EVT) as a treatment for patients with large-core ...

The key to treating congestive heart failure is addressing the underlying causes, and treatment is highly tailored to each patient's needs. Chris Bell, an acute care nurse practitioner who specializes ...

The clot-dissolving medication, alteplase, improved stroke patients' recovery by more than 50% when given up to 24 hours ...

Certain hormonal contraceptives are associated with a higher stroke and heart attack risk, finds a large study from Denmark in The BMJ today that draws on prescription records to give more precise ...

A TIA, or transient ischemic attack, is a temporary blockage of blood flow to a part of the brain. By definition, a TIA lasts ...

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a ...

Aldosterone has been shown to cause coronary inflammation, cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial fibrosis, ventricular arrhythmias, and ischemic ... in the treatment of heart failure, including an ...

Their paper is published in the European Heart Journal ... timely diagnosis often poses a challenge to the treatment of chronic limb-threatening ischemia. Korpisalo notes that in the future ...

A rapid blood test could speed treatment for people who have suffered a stroke related to brain bleeding, a new study says.

The addition of β-adrenergic antagonists to the treatment regimen for heart ... now been demonstrated for all classes of heart failure, for both ischemic and non-ischemic etiologies, for both ...