CMS proposed changing the definition of surgery to account for “surgery-like” procedures in the 2019 proposed payment rule for ASCs and hospital outpatient departments, which could add cardiac ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PHILADELPHIA — Following left heart catheterization, offloading measured by left ventricular end-diastolic ...

LESIONS of the left side of the heart, both congenital and acquired, demand precise physiologic and anatomic diagnosis for accurate surgical relief. This is especially true in infants and children.

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Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of California, Irvine, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CALORI study calls into question the practice of fasting before cardiac catheterization. Patients not ...

From the George Washington University School of Medicine. We are indebted to Dr. Erlo Roth, of the Department of Pathology, for performing the autopsy. Alan L. Pinkerson, M.D. Fellow in cardiovascular ...