Angelo Branzi

TL;DR: Among the 222 patients completing one year of treatment with sildenafil monotherapy, the improvement from baseline at one year in the distance walked in six minutes was 51 m, and the incidence of clinical worsening did not differ significantly between the patients treated with s Bildenafils and those treated with placebo.

TL;DR: Fuvastatin treatment in patients with average cholesterol levels undergoing their first successful PCI significantly reduces the risk of major adverse cardiac events.

TL;DR: ‘Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes’ recently published in European Heart Journal 1 rightly dedicates space to the pitfalls that can be encountered when reading presentation ECGs, but there is an important omission.

TL;DR: It is concluded that 99mTc-DPD scintigraphy is a useful step in the workup of the differential diagnosis of TTR versus AL etiology in patients with documented cardiac amyloidosis.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of all randomized controlled trials with drugs published in this condition suggests an improvement of survival in the patients treated with the targeted therapies approved for pulmonary arterial hypertension.