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For many years, aspirin has been extensively used to scale back the chance of cardiovascular issues. Now, a crew led by a College of Florida Well being researcher has discovered that aspirin could present little or no profit for sure sufferers who've plaque buildup of their arteries. Aspirin is efficient in treating strokes and coronary heart assaults by lowering blood clots. The researchers tracked the well being histories of over 33,000 sufferers with atherosclerosis -- narrowed, hardened arteries -- and decided that aspirin is marginally helpful for individuals who have had a earlier coronary heart assault, stroke or different blood-flow points involving arteries. Nonetheless, amongst atherosclerosis sufferers with no prior coronary heart assault or stroke, aspirin had no obvious profit. The findings had been printed Could 18 within the journal  Scientific Cardiology . As a result of the findings are observational, additional examine that features medical trials are wanted ...

Cardiac surgeons are efficiently performing extra in depth surgical repairs of kind A aortic dissection -- one of many highest danger operations in cardiothoracic surgical procedure. These new surgical strategies, together with improved postoperative care, are leading to higher long-term outcomes and decrease charges of problems, in accordance with an article revealed on-line at present in The  Annals of Thoracic Surgical procedure . Key factors embody that surgeons are adapting their surgical methods to extra aggressively deal with aortic dissections with improved outcomes. The mortality charge for kind A aortic dissection surgical procedure stays excessive at 19%, however danger for sure problems reminiscent of pneumonia and reoperation are considerably decrease. These complicated aortic dissection surgical procedures profit from cerebral perfusion, with 85% of instances at present utilizing the method. "Kind A aortic dissection requires emergency surgical restore," me...