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Implementation of guideline‐recommended medical therapy for patients with heart failure in Europe

ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 790-798, April 2025.
Abstract Physicians' adherence to guideline‐recommended heart failure (HF) treatment remains suboptimal, especially regarding the target doses. In particular, there is evidence that non‐cardiologists are less compliant with HF guideline recommendations. This is likely to have a detrimental impact on patients' survival, readmissions and quality of life.
Maurizio Volterrani, Petar Seferovic, Gianluigi Savarese, Ilaria Spoletini, Egidio Imbalzano, Antoni Bayes‐Genis, Ewa Jankowska, Michele Senni, Marco Metra, Ovidiu Chioncel, Andrew J. S. Coats, Giuseppe M. C. Rosano   +11 more
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Moving on From Bland: The Evolution of the Law and Minimally Conscious Patients [PDF]

, 2014
The decision in Bland centred on the withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration from a patient in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Since then, a new medical condition has emerged, known as a minimally conscious state (MCS).
Heywood, Rob
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Transendocardial injection of expanded autologous CD34+ cells after myocardial infarction: Design of the EXCELLENT trial

ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1455-1463, April 2025.
Abstract Aims The extent of irreversible cardiomyocyte necrosis after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a major determinant of residual left ventricular (LV) function and clinical outcome. Cell therapy based on CD34+ cells has emerged as an option to help repair the myocardium and to improve outcomes.
Jerome Roncalli, François Roubille, Nicolas Meyer, Giulio Pompilio, Lionel Leroux, Philippe Henon, Guillaume Trebuchet, Anthony Criquet, Matthieu de Kalbermatten, Eric Saloux, Alain Manrique, Pierre‐Yves Marie, Deepak L. Bhatt, Scott D. Solomon, Gilles Montalescot, David E. Newby, Faiez Zannad, on behalf of the EXCELLENT Trial Investigators   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is withdrawing treatment really more problematic than withholding treatment? [PDF]

J Med Ethics, 2021
Cameron J, Savulescu J, Wilkinson D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Real‐world characteristics and treatment of cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis: A multicentre, observational study

ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1203-1216, April 2025.
The 366 patients diagnosed with transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy (ATTR‐CM) were analyzed regarding their clinical characteristics in the first year after approval of tafamidis 61 mg for ATTR‐CM in Germany. Nearly two‐thirds of the patients were in an advanced disease stage and 64% met the key criteria of the “Transthyretin Amyloidosis ...
Richard J. Nies, Svenja Ney, Ingrid Kindermann, Yvonne Bewarder, Angela Zimmer, Fabian Knebel, Katrin Hahn, Sebastian Spethmann, Peter Luedike, Lars Michel, Tienush Rassaf, Maria Papathanasiou, Stefan Störk, Vladimir Cejka, Amin Polzin, Fabian Voss, Malte Kelm, Bernhard Unsöld, Christine Meindl, Michael Paulus, Ali Yilmaz, Bishwas Chamling, Caroline Morbach, Roman Pfister   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Common Law Roadmap for State Courts [PDF]

, 1997
Part I examines the development of the law legalizing passively hastening death and how this development relied significantly on distinguishing passively hastening death from actively hastening death.
Meisel, Alan
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Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy in aortic stenosis patients scheduled for transcatheter aortic valve implantation

ESC Heart Failure, EarlyView.
Abbreviations: TAVI, transcatheter aortic valve implantation; ATTR‐CM, transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis. We aimed to diagnose occult ATTR‐CM in patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing TAVI using bone scintigraphy. We verified a diagnosis of ATTR‐CM in 8 of 171 (4.7 %) consecutive aortic stenosis patients who underwent TAVI.
Margrethe Flesvig Holt, August Flø, Esra Kaya, Sophie Foss Kløve, Hege Martinsen, Kristine Amlie, Petter Storsten, Thomas Misje Mathiisen, Kristoffer Russell, Christian Hesbø Eek, Helge Skulstad, Melinda Raki, Lars Gullestad, Anders Hodt, Einar Gude, Kaspar Broch   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Evasion [PDF]

, 2015
Addressing tax evasion and avoidance through use of tax havens has been the subject of a number of proposals in Congress and by the President. Actions by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the G-20 industrialized nations
Gravelle, Jane G
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The Impact of Holistic Justice on the Long‐Term Experiences and Wellbeing of Mass Human Rights Violation Survivors: Ethnographic and Interview Evidence From Kosova, Northern Ireland and Albania

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research highlights the long‐term collective effects of mass human rights violations (MHRVs) on survivors’ wellbeing. This multi‐method, multi‐context paper combines the social identity approach (SIA), transitional and social justice theories and human rights‐conceptualised wellbeing to propose a human rights understanding of trauma responses ...
Blerina Kёllezi, Juliet R. H. Wakefield, Mhairi Bowe, Aurora Guxholli, Andrew Livingstone, Jolanda Jetten, Stephen Reicher   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Withholding treatment: What, Whom and Why? [PDF]

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2017
When is it permissible for medical professionals to withhold a medical intervention? Several considerations might immediately be deemed morally relevant to such a decision. Does the medical professional believe that the intervention is in the patient's best interests? Is the patient competent, and has she refused to consent to the intervention?
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