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Figure 1. Cause of death in prevalent dialysis patients in the United States, 2005 to 2007. 1 AMI indicates acute myocardial infarction; CHF, congestive heart failure; CVA, cerebrovascular accident.

Notwithstanding the substantial progress in acute stroke care over the past 15 years, the focus of stroke medical advances and healthcare resources has been on acute and subacute recovery phases, ...

Figure. Depiction of manual blood pressure (BP) measurement (with auscultation of Korotkoff sounds) in contrast to automated oscillometric measurement (which derives a mathematical curve called an ...

Mirroring the heterogeneity and complexity of errors in health care, the myriad initiatives underway to improve safety are multifaceted and wide ranging, which makes it difficult to overview them.

Advances in critical care therapies for patients with cardiogenic shock (CS), including temporary mechanical circulatory support and multidisciplinary shock teams, have led to improved survival to ...

High-quality mechanistic and clinically relevant science to keep clinicians at the forefront of the latest advancements in the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure ...

Comments and feedback on AHA/ASA Scientific Statements and Guidelines should be directed to the AHA/ASA Manuscript Oversight Committee via its Correspondence page.

In this review, we aim both to critically summarize the current state of knowledge on the role of cerebral bypass surgery because the publication of COSS and to present possible future directions for ...

Hyperglycemia is a common problem in persons with diabetes mellitus after an acute stroke. 5,6 Elevations in serum glucose can be because of many factors, such as age, obesity, and physiological ...

With the advancements of molecular genetics and the identification of mutations in the genes encoding the cardiac ryanodine receptor and cardiac calsequestrin 2 in patients with CPVT, the central role ...