Interventional Cardiology & Surgery

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Use of Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation for Extensive-Stage Small-Cell Lung Cancer May Be Dropping Prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) for patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) appears to have become less common in the U.S., according to a new survey.
Reuters Health Information, August 2019
No Survival Benefit with Myocardial Viability After CABG: STICH Past research suggested that myocardial viability might aid survival in coronary bypass surgery patients. This study found no long-term survival benefit but modest improvement in ejection fraction.
Medscape Medical News, August 2019
Alert FDA Slaps Class I Recall on Sapien 3 Ultra for TAVR The class I recall of the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device follows an urgent field warning about burst balloons issued last month by device maker, Edwards Lifesciences.
News Alerts, August 2019
Alert FDA Approves New Form of HF Device Therapy, the Barostim Neo
FDA Approvals, August 2019

Stop or Switch the Antidiabetic Drug? This woman's hypoglycemia is mild and her diet is poor. Should I change her antidiabetic meds or leave well enough alone?
Medscape Family Medicine, August 14, 2019
How a Snakebite and Sudden Death Led to Cardiology and Writing A family history of sudden death was the impetus for author Sandeep Jauhar's fascination with the heart, which led to a career in cardiology and his latest book Heart: A History.
theheart.org on Medscape, August 12, 2019
'I Was That Kid': Dr Quinn Capers Inspires #BlackMenInMedicine Fewer black men are going into medicine today than in 1978. Drs Harrington and Capers discuss how to increase diversity in medicine and why it's important for caregivers to reflect the population they treat.
theheart.org on Medscape, July 15, 2019
Is Cardiology Overly Enamored of New Unproven Therapies? A review of many cases where study data reversed a common medical practice highlights the need to be slow to embrace unproven therapies and faster to de-adopt ineffective ones, says John Mandrola, MD.
theheart.org on Medscape, July 12, 2019

Seth Bilazarian Signs off from Clinical Practice After more than 20 years, Dr Bilazarian decides to leave clinical practice and take a job in industry. He reflects on the reasons and his hopes for his new career.
theheart.org on Medscape, October 12, 2015
How a Snakebite and Sudden Death Led to Cardiology and Writing A family history of sudden death was the impetus for author Sandeep Jauhar's fascination with the heart, which led to a career in cardiology and his latest book Heart: A History.
theheart.org on Medscape, August 12, 2019
Rediscovering the Joy of Practice via a Rocky Mountain Reboot A burned-out physician who quit fulltime practice because of family responsibilities finds that locum tenens work in the Northwest was just the medicine she needed.
theheart.org on Medscape, August 14, 2019