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SGLT-2 Inhibitors Show Mixed Results After Heart Attack

DAIC

However, researchers said the drug may be helpful in reducing heart failure risks, including hospitalization, following a heart attack. However, researchers said the drug may be helpful in reducing heart failure risks, including hospitalization, following a heart attack.

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EMPACT-MI Trial Outcomes Reported at ACC24: SGLT-2 Inhibitors Show Mixed Results After Heart Attack

DAIC

While composite of death and heart failure hospitalizations was not significantly reduced, empagliflozin may help reduce heart failure risks after a heart attack, according to results from the EMPACT-MI trial presented on day one of the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, ACC.24,

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Resynchronising the Heart in Heart Failure

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Today’s vlog is on the subject of heart failure and in particular on a special type of pacemaker which can make a significant improvement to the quality of life and length of life in patients with heart failure. What is heart failure?

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Heart Failure – Does Testosterone Hold the Key?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Today’s video is on the subject of heart failure. Heart failure is a chronic clinical syndrome characterised by the inability of the heart to pump out enough blood to meet the body’s requirements. Anything that affects the heart in a bad way may in its severest form lead to heart failure.

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Pericarditis

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

If the inflammation spreads to the surface of the heart itself, it is termed myopericarditis. About 5% of patients who present to A+E with chest pain which is not deemed to be a heart attack or angina are ultimately diagnosed with pericarditis. Also recent cardiac surgery and a recent heart attack can present with pericarditis.