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Avocados for the Heart; Cardiology's Sad State; CBD for Pulmonary Hypertension?

Heart 2023 Conference

Source: JAMA Cardiology) Patients with afib who survived an intracerebral haemorrhage had a very significant risk of cerebrovascular ischemia episodes and death in the following year, according to registry data. American College of Cardiology Journal) Are you thinking of stopping your antiplatelet medication too soon after angioplasty?

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A dialysis patient with nonspecific symptoms and pseudonormalization of ST segments

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Normally, concavity in ST segments suggests absence of anterior ischemia (though concavity by itself is not reassuring - see this study ). The lesion was intervened on with balloon angioplasty and had subsequent TIMI 3 flow. It was thought to be an in stent restenosis and thrombosis from a DES placed in the same region 6 months prior.