Susan Jeffrey

Antiplatelet agent indobufen was noninferior to aspirin in combination with clopidogrel after coronary intervention on both efficacy and safety outcomes, with less mostly minor bleeding.

Allopurinol failed to affect a composite of nonfatal MI, nonfatal stroke, or CV death, in a randomized trial that was ‘definitively neutral’ in patients with heart disease but no gout.

Posterior left pericardiotomy was ‘highly effective’ in reducing the occurrence of postoperative atrial fibrillation, results of the proof-of-concept PALACS study show.