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Posts Tagged ‘warfarin’

Podcast 154: Treating heart failure’s hypercoagulable state — warfarin or aspirin?

Joe Elia • May 2nd, 2012

Categories: aspirin, Audio, Heart failure, Uncategorized, warfarin

(9 votes, average: 3.11 out of 5)

Heart failure brings problems associated with hypercoagulation, such as stroke and sudden death. An international study followed some 2300 patients with heart failure (ejection fractions of 35% or less) and in stable sinus rhythm for a mean of 3.5 years, randomizing them to treatment with either warfarin or aspirin. The two treatment groups showed [...]

Podcast 115: Talking about the real-world use of dabigatran with Drs. Elaine Hylek and Samuel Goldhaber

Joe Elia • March 10th, 2011

Categories: Anticoagulants, Atrial fibrillation, Audio, Dabigatran, stroke, Uncategorized, warfarin

(22 votes, average: 4.09 out of 5)

Clinical Conversations, in a collaboration with CardioExchange, has interviewed two expert working clinicians on how best to use dabigatran — a drug poised to supplant warfarin in the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation. The wide ranging discussion with Drs. Elaine Hylek and Samuel Goldhaber  includes sections on who [...]

Podcast 109: An overview of the American Heart Association meeting, with cardiologist Harlan Krumholz

Joe Elia • November 19th, 2010

Categories: AHA, American Heart Association, CardioExchange, Cardiology, Uncategorized

(9 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5)

We’ve got Dr. Harlan Krumholz, editor of Journal Watch Cardiology and CardioExchange, to guide us through a week’s worth of the top research presented at the American Heart Association in Chicago. Interview-related links (in the order we discuss them in the interview): CardioExchange (worth checking out — it’s an experiment in the clinical use of [...]

Podcast 83: An interview by CardioExchange’s editors on the COURAGE study

Joe Elia • April 16th, 2010

Categories: Acute Coronary Syndrome, Audio, Cardiology, COURAGE study, Uncategorized

(3 votes, average: 2.33 out of 5)

This week’s conversation introduces you to CardioExchange, a joint effort by Journal Watch and the New England Journal of Medicine to create an online community of clinicians interested in cardiovascular diseases. Two of CardioExchange’s editors, Dr. Richard Lange and Dr. L. David Hillis, interview Dr. William Boden of the COURAGE study, and Dr. Gregg [...]

Podcast 55: A conversation with Prof. Gilles Montalescot about his JAMA paper on immediate versus delayed intervention in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome

Joe Elia • September 4th, 2009

Categories: Acute Coronary Syndrome, Cardiology, PCI

(1 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)

French researchers find that in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome, delaying intervention until the next day does not affect the occurrence of death, MI, or the need for urgent revascularization by the one-month mark. We caught up with the study’s first author in Paris. If you want access to earlier podcasts, you’ve come to the right [...]

Podcast 33: We repeat, after the principal news of the week, an interview with Stephen Hetz, co-editor of “War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq”

Joe Elia • March 8th, 2009

Categories: Audio, war

(2 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)

This week’s podcast includes an interview from September 2008 with Stephen Hetz, co-editor of “War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq,” published last summer by the Surgeon General. We’re going to change our name to “Clinical Conversations.” which, come to think of it, makes more sense than “Admitting Diagnosis,” but doesn’t have the mystery and the [...]