Reporting from:
American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, New Orleans, November 7-10, 2004
In this edition:
In severe heart failure, Teresa De Marco told delegates at the American Heart Association meeting, vasodilators bring better survival rates as first line therapy than inotropes.
Marc Pfeffer’s results show that adding extra medications such as ACE inhibitors may not improve outcomes – contradicting received wisdom from another recent study.
A synthetic jacket acting like a support stocking can bring benefit to the failing heart, according to Douglas Mann who described his investigation at the New Orleans conference.
Anthony Gerschlick has discovered that in centres where lytic therapy for infarction is the first line of attack, patients needing further rescue should receive angioplasty and not repeat lysis.
David Malenka told the conference how his team found that bypass grafting was better than angioplasty in three-vessel disease.
The idea of getting barbers to screen for blood pressure was raised at the New Orleans conference by Paul Hess following a successful trial conducted by his group.
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