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INDIANAPOLIS - Transthoracic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer provides significantly lower in-hospital mortality and major morbidity rates than does transhiatal esophagectomy, according to an analysis of a large multiyear... »

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new agent for the urgent reversal of vitamin K antagonist anticoagulation in adults with acute major bleeding.

Kcentra (Prothrombin Complex Concentrate, Human), manufactured by CSL... »

The panel of cardiologists who revised U.S. competency standards for coronary interventionalists acknowledged prevailing case-volume realities and cut the minimum number of cases recommended for active operators to 50 per year,... »

NEW YORK – After following more than 400 patients who underwent mitral valve replacement for almost 25 years, French investigators have found that the Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Pericardial prosthetic has an expected durability... »

President Obama is proposing to cut more than $370 billion from the Medicare program over the next decade, a move aimed at reducing the federal deficit and putting the program on firmer financial footing.

The president’s fiscal... »

SAN FRANCISCO - Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery offered no advantages over on-pump CABG in any major end points at 1 year of follow-up in two major prospective randomized trials totaling more than 7,000 patients.... »

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. - Seeing is believing, especially when enhanced visualization of tumors during surgery helps improve chances for complete resection, investigators said at the annual Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer... »

MINNEAPOLIS – High-risk patients receiving the On-X mechanical aortic valve can be safely managed with less aggressive anticoagulation than currently recommended, interim results of the PROACT trial suggest.*

The lower target... »

State-of-the-art presentations on what’s new in the highly active area of aortic valve therapies, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement, opened Saturday’s Adult Cardiac Skills and Decision Making Course.

As an... »

SAN FRANCISCO – The double-kissing crush approach to stenting an unprotected left main coronary artery at the distal bifurcation produced clearly better 1-year clinical outcomes than did an alternative way to stent at the... »