Communication between all involved parties is important for the patient with a complicated medical history. Such interactions amongst physicians was the topic of a Loss Prevention Seminar. The patient was a 24-year-old nurse, a longterm survivor of a childhood cancer. She reported that she had suffered a serious bout of heart failure of unknown etiology. She had barely survived and was just...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of cardiologist care on adherence to evidence-based secondary prevention medications, mortality and readmission within 6 months of discharge in patients with heart failure (HF). DESIGN Retrospective observational study based on administrative data. SETTING Local Healthcare Authority (LHA) of Bologna, one of the largest LHAs of Italy with ~870 000 inhabitant...

INTRODUCTION This study evaluates the agreement between emergency physician (EP) assessment of diastolic dysfunction (DD) by a simplified approach using average peak mitral excursion velocity (e'A) and an independent cardiologist's diagnosis of DD by estimating left atrial (LA) pressure using American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) guidelines. METHODS This was a secondary analysis of 48 li...

Introduction Pediatric cardiology was established as a subspecialty of the American Board of Pediatrics and began certification in 1951. Although the field initially comprised cardiologists with both internal medicine and pediatric training, the paths of adult and pediatric cardiology have diverged until presently there is very little overlap of interest and expertise in the areas of noninvasiv...

Carotid endarterectomy for stroke prevention has been the standard of care for 50 years in patients with extra-cranial carotid bifurcation disease. Over the past decade, carotid stenting has emerged as a viable alternative to surgery. Combined with filter embolic protection devices, both a randomized control trial (Stenting and Angioplasty with Protection in Patients at High Risk for Endarterec...