Topic of the Month April: Cardiology

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657.000 operating hours with a flow-rate of three billion liters pumped by a contracting volume of 70 ccm - a tremendous life performance of our heart. Usually, no maintenance necessary.

MEDICA.de provides you in April's Topic of the Month with news about cutting-edge technology and innovations in the field of cardiology.

Several studies have suggested that HIV positivity leads to an increased risk for the development of angiographically severe coronary artery disease (CAD). But, new US research reaches a different conclusion. - AIDS: HIV No Independent Risk Factor for Severe Heart Disease

Efforts to improve the quality of post-heart attack care in hospitals are working, but they appear to be working better for men than for women, new research shows. - Gender Studies: Women Lag Men in Quality Heart Attack Care

Two US cardiac specialists have found a way to more than cut in half the amount of time that it takes for a patient to get from the helicopter door to the catheterisation table. - Heart Attack Treatment: New Ways of Reducing Precious Time

A Mayo Clinic study with mitral valve regurgitation that had not yet produced significant symptoms has established the first objective guidelines for when patients should consider valve repair surgery instead of continuing treatment with medications. - Mitral Regurgitation: New Threshold Set for Valve Surgery

New articles (currently added): - New Study: Kidney Transplant Can Reverse Heart Failure

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