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FridayEarly Revascularization for Heart Failure Reduces Deaths - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
Early aggressive intervention for heart failure, with traditional surgery or catheter-based percutaneous interventions, may halve the risk of mortality, according to investigators here.
For a select group of patients treated at the Cleveland Clinic the three-year mortality rate for heart failure patients who had early interventions was 15% versus 35% among patients who underwent conservative medical management (P=0.0004). Moreover, there was no apparent interaction between survival benefit associated with early cardiac intervention and the amount of ischemic and hibernating tissue identified by imaging studies, Michael S. Lauer, M.D., of Case Western Reserve colleagues reported in the Jan. 3 issue of Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association.more |
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