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2022 MAR 07 By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily Investigators discuss new findings in Drugs and Therapies- Adverse Drug Reactions. Financial supporters for this research include Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, NIH National Heart Lung& Blood Institute. Our news journalists. ....
Feb 24, 2021 Making TCAR available for select patients leads to 10% lower MACE rates Hospitals that adopted transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) as an option for carotid revascularization saw a 10% reduction in perioperative major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with carotid artery stenosis, according to a registry-based study, although other quality-of-care initiatives may also have played a part. In a study of data from the Society of Vascular Surgery’s Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI), the crude rate of MACE was similar for post-TCAR and post-CEA at 2.3% versus 2.4% ( P=0.91), reported Jesse A. Columbo MD, MS, of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and co-authors. ....