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Articles tagged ‘heart failure’
August 2011
Br J Cardiol 2011;18:189–92
Audit of the NT-ProBNP guided transthoracic echocardiogram service in Southend
Heart failure is one of the most common conditions in industrialised society. Plasma N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide (NT-ProBNP) levels are raised in heart...
June 2011
Br J Cardiol 2011;18:105–8
News from the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2011
Highlights of the recent American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting, held in New Orleans, USA, on 2nd – 5th April 2011, included the promise of...
June 2011
Br J Cardiol 2011;18:113–14
Heart failure: what’s new? The 2011 BSH medical training meeting
The latest evidence in heart failure was presented at the 3rd Annual British Society of Heart Failure (BSH) medical training meeting, which took place in...
June 2011
Br J Cardiol 2011;18:133–7
Mild hyponatraemia and short-term outcomes in patients with heart failure in the community
Hyponatraemia has been shown to be an independent predictor of mortality in selected patients with heart failure (HF) enrolled in clinical trials. The predictive value...
February 2011
Br J Cardiol 2011;18:11-3
News from the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2010
News from the world of cardiology....
February 2011
Br J Cardiol 2011;18:24-7
Drugs for diabetes: part 3 thiazolidinediones
Thiazolidinediones (glitazones) are a relatively new addition to the type 2 diabetes drug armoury, but they have caused considerable controversy since they were introduced into...
September 2010
Br J Cardiol 2010;17:209
Latest NICE guidance on chronic heart failure
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published new guidance on the management of chronic heart failure. This updates and replaces the...
September 2010
Br J Cardiol 2010;17:211-14
News from the 2010 Congress of the European Society of Cardiology
News from the world of cardiology....
July 2010
Br J Cardiol 2010;17:163-5
Eplerenone beneficial in mild heart failure
Another trial stopped early because of benefit is EMPHASIS-HF (Eplerenone in Mild Patients Hospitalisation And SurvIval Study in Heart Failure) which looked at the aldosterone...