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The Effects of Peroneal Nerve Functional Electrical Stimulation Versus Ankle-Foot Orthosis in Patients With Chronic Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Conclusions. Use of FES is equivalent to the AFO. Further studies should examine whether FES enables better performance in tasks involving functional mobility, activities of daily living, and balance.
Source: Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair - August 13, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Bethoux, F., Rogers, H. L., Nolan, K. J., Abrams, G. M., Annaswamy, T. M., Brandstater, M., Browne, B., Burnfield, J. M., Feng, W., Freed, M. J., Geis, C., Greenberg, J., Gudesblatt, M., Ikramuddin, F., Jayaraman, A., Kautz, S. A., Lutsep, H. L., Madhavan Tags: Clinical Research Articles Source Type: research

Long Term Outcomes and Anticoagulation in Mitral Valve Surgery - A Report from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database
CONCLUSIONS: Anticoagulation was used in less than half of mitral valve surgery. In MVrep patients, warfarin was associated with increased bleeding and was not protective against either stroke or mortality. In BMVR patients, warfarin was associated with a modest survival benefit, increased bleeding and equivalent stroke risk. NOAC was associated with increased adverse outcomes.PMID:37308066 | DOI:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2023.05.025
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - June 12, 2023 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Thomas A Schwann Andrew M Vekstein Daniel T Engelman Dylan Thibault Joanna Chikwe Milo Engoren Mario Gaudino Sreekanth Vemulapalli Vinod Thourani Gorav Ailawadi Anthony Rousou Robert H Habib Source Type: research

Cardiovascular events and hospital resource utilization pre – and post–transcatheter mitral valve repair in high–surgical risk patients
Conclusions MitraClip was associated with a reduced rate of all-cause and HF hospitalizations and an increased rate of bleeding hospitalizations. One-year Medicare costs were reduced in those who survived a full year after the MitraClip procedure. Payors and providers seeking to reduce HF hospitalizations and associated Medicare costs may consider MitraClip among appropriate patients likely to survive 1 year.
Source: American Heart Journal - May 10, 2017 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

Routine revascularization is unnecessary in the majority of patients requiring zone II coverage during thoracic endovascular aortic repair: A longitudinal outcomes study using United States Medicare population data.
ConclusionsTEVAR + SUB were associated with lower rates of mortality and complications. Only a small percentage of TEVAR + SUB required a bypass at one year after procedure. Our data suggest that routine LSA bypass during TEVAR is unnecessary and associated with increase morbidity and mortality. PMID: 24003009 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Vascular - September 3, 2013 Category: Surgery Authors: Wilson JE, Galiñanes EL, Hu P, Dombrovskiy VY, Vogel TR Tags: Vascular Source Type: research

COVID-19 Exposed the Faults in America ’s Elder Care System. This Is Our Best Shot to Fix Them
For the American public, one of the first signs of the COVID-19 pandemic to come was a tragedy at a nursing home near Seattle. On Feb. 29, 2020, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State announced the U.S. had its first outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Three people in the area had tested positive the day before; two of them were associated with Life Care Center of Kirkland, and officials expected more to follow soon. When asked what steps the nursing home could take to control the spread, Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer for Seattle and King County, said he was working w...
Source: TIME: Health - June 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized Aging COVID-19 feature franchise Magazine TIME for Health Source Type: news

Comparison of Unibody and Non-Unibody Endografts for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair in Medicare Beneficiaries: The SAFE-AAA Study
CONCLUSIONS: In the SAFE-AAA Study, unibody endografts failed to meet noninferiority compared with non-unibody endografts with respect to aortic reintervention, rupture, and mortality. These data support the urgency of instituting a prospective longitudinal surveillance program for monitoring safety events related to aortic stent grafts.PMID:36866664 | DOI:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.062123
Source: Circulation - March 3, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eric A Secemsky Yang Song Tianyu Sun Carmen Gacchina Johnson Megan Gatski Li Wang Andrew Farb Robert E Lee Aurko Shaw Jiaman Xu Robert W Yeh Source Type: research

Outcomes of Complex Endovascular Treatment of Post-Dissection Aneurysms
CONCLUSION: Complex endovascular repair of chronic post-dissection aneurysms is feasible, but is associated with high rates of re-interventions and non-trivial rates of lack of technical success. More data are needed to evaluate the long term durability of these procedures, and the utility of centralising these complex procedures.PMID:37087065 | DOI:10.1016/j.ejvs.2023.04.013
Source: PubMed: Eur J Vasc Endovasc ... - April 20, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Thomas F X O'Donnell Priya B Patel Christina L Marcaccio Kirsten D Dansey Nicholas J Swerdlow Vinamr Rastogi Virendra I Patel Adam W Beck Sara L Zettervall Marc L Schermerhorn Source Type: research