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Outpatient vascular care : Good, bad or ugly?

Dr. Anish Koka

Most have gotten used to egregiously bad coverage of current events that fills the pages of today’s New York Times, but even by their now very low standards a recent telling of a story about peripheral artery disease was very bad. His license was not suspended, and he continues to operate a busy practice today.

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Association Between Cardiovascular Event Type and Smoking Cessation Rates Among Outpatients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: Insights From the NCDR PINNACLE Registry

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Self-reported smoking status was assessed at each consecutive visit and used to determine smoking cessation after each interim ASCVD event (myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass graft, stroke/transient ischemic attack, peripheral artery disease).

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Epidemiology of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in polygenic hypercholesterolemia with or without high lipoprotein(a) levels

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Background and aims Epidemiology of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease might be different in patients with polygenic hypercholesterolemia plus high levels (≥30 mg/dl) of Lp(a) (H-Lpa) than in those with polygenic hypercholesterolemia alone (H-LDL).

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Abstract TP283: Incidence of Stroke in Patients with AF and history of Catheter Ablation

Stroke Journal

A detailed query of our common inpatient and outpatient medical record was performed for medications including prescription and adherence to OAC, as well as occurrence of CVA post ablation.Results:Out of 2313 AF patients who underwent CA, 32 (1.4%) had a CVA (6 TIA, 26 stroke) within 5 years of ablation (Table 1).

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Study: Disparities in Peripheral Artery Disease Treatment Lead to Amputation

DAIC

tim.hodson Mon, 01/13/2025 - 16:24 A new studyreports persistent disparities in outcomes for people with peripheral artery disease (PAD) and its more severe form, chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) in the United States. had an outpatient vascular subspecialist visit, 82.1%