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News from EHRA 2024: International Experts Agree on Standards for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

DAIC

Some patients need computed tomography or transoesophageal echocardiography to exclude the presence of a blood clot in the heart. Blood thinners should not be interrupted before catheter ablation and patients should receive specific instructions from their healthcare provider on continuing their medication. 2018;20(1):e1-e160.

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Philips Launches New Azurion Neuro Biplane System at #ECR2024 to Speed Up and Improve Minimally Invasive Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurovascular Patients

DAIC

For ischemic stroke, which accounts for 87% of all strokes [3], the benefits of delivering intra-arterial treatment (IAT) – catheter-based procedures to mechanically disrupt or remove blood clots (mechanical thrombectomy) and/or inject clot-busting agents – within 6 hours of symptom onset, are widely accepted [4]. Circulation.

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2024’s Mid-Year Review: FDA-Approved Cardiorenal Metabolic Drugs and Devices 

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Notes: Approved after initial rejection two years prior based on safety data from Japan, where the drug had been used since 2020 It can only be used in kidney disease patients on dialysis for at least 3 months. The label includes a “black box” warning for CV risk due to blood clots.

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Medical Imaging Emerging Trends in 2021

SoftCath

Billion in 2020. Identify accumulated blood clots that can result in heart diseases, cancer, or emphysema. It has greatly enhanced the methods of diagnostics and has made the treatment of several medical conditions more efficient and effective. Businesswire suggests that the global market for medical imaging was valued at $39.94

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ECMO May Offer Sickest COVID Patients Chance for ‘Exceptional Survival’

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Critical Care

Dr. Smith and colleagues identified 415 patients who were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of NYU Langone Health from March 10, 2020, through May 1, 2020, with confirmed COVID-19 infection. Smith, MD, from NYU Langone Health in New York City, New York.

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The Florida Study and the public health hypocrites

Dr. Anish Koka

The CDC/FDA paused distribution of this vaccine momentarily because of a rare, but real devastating complication that emerged in young healthy women who had received the vaccine - a platelet destroying blood clotting disorder that could cause a severe brain stroke. that actual journalist Paul Thacker chronicles well.

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Does Sars-Cov-2 exist?

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

However, the issue resurfaced in early 2020 when a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), deadlier than the previous, brought the world to a halt. Some coronavirus patients have experienced what some experts have described as levels of blood oxygen that are incompatible with life. He came back in March 2020. They were otherwise well.