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WSC EDAS Surgery Shows Promise for Intracranial Stenosis A phase 2a study provides preliminary evidence that EDAS surgery to reroute brain arteries, used to treat moyamoya disease, may also reduce recurrent stroke in patients with intracranial stenosis.
Medscape Medical News, October 2018
Greater Risks With Post-TAVR Rivaroxaban Halt GALILEO Trial The phase 3 trial was stopped prematurely after safety concerns were raised about increased risks for all-cause death, thromboembolic events, and bleeding.
Medscape Medical News, October 2018
TCT 2018 CorMicA: Flow, Stress Tests Can Guide Therapy in Severe Angina Adjunctive testing may improve outcomes by identifying and guiding therapy for microvascular or vasospastic angina in the absence of CAD. But these tests are invasive and may not be for all.
Medscape Medical News, October 2018
TCT 2018 NIRS-IVUS Imaging Spots Vulnerable Plaques, At-Risk Patients 'Of course, the million-dollar question is, What do you do differently with that information?' remarked one expert.
Medscape Medical News, October 2018

Malpractice Case: The One Key Factor Missing From Follow-up An abnormal test result sets in motion a number of follow-up actions, but there is one crucial element that must be constant.
Cooperative of American Physicians, October 17, 2018
Sudden Cardiac Death in Teens: Does Screening Change Anything? Screening to find the few teen athletes with true cardiac disease and high risk for sudden death is like looking for a needle in a haystack, Dr William Basco argues.
Medscape Pediatrics, October 16, 2018
A Visual Field Defect in a Patient With History of Seizures A 64-year-old woman comes to you after 2 weeks of symptoms. Between visual testing and MRI, can you offer her a diagnosis?
Medscape Ophthalmology, October 9, 2018
How Have the 2017 McDonald Criteria Affected MS Diagnoses? The 2017 revisions to the McDonald criteria: Dr Stephen Krieger discusses new research related to MS diagnosis and lesion location.
Medscape Neurology, October 3, 2018

Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction: Common Finding in HFpEF
theheart.org on Medscape, September 25, 2018
Pediatric MS: A Game-Changing New Therapy
CHOP Expert Commentary, September 14, 2018
When Patients Demand Unnecessary Medical Tests
Medscape Neurology, September 5, 2018
A Novel, Effective Way to Treat Stage IV Breast Cancer
Medscape Internal Medicine, August 30, 2018
Headache MRI: What to Do With Incidental Findings
American Headache Society and Medscape, August 28, 2018
ESC 2018 Cardiology 2028: Predicting the Future
theheart.org on Medscape, August 28, 2018

Analyze This Image: Make The Diagnosis in Vein Can you tell who has the lowest left atrial pressure from the pulmonary vein Dopplers? Bonus for diagnosing all four patients.
theheart.org on Medscape, July 5, 2018
Echo Case: Possibly an All-Time Record Case of… One of the worst cases Dr Wharton has seen. Can you decipher from the M-modes alone as the echocardiographers of old had to?
theheart.org on Medscape, June 8, 2018