Registry Archives - Family Medicine News

Registry helps move aortic dissection care forward

19.03.2019 Health Problems

What began with a modest hospital grant at the University of Michigan in 1996 is now the world’s leading source of data on diagnosis, treatments and outcomes for a rare and dangerous cardiac condition. On Monday, Kim Eagle, M.D., a director of U-M’s Frankel Cardiovascular Center, presented data from 9,000 patients gathered over nearly 25 years by the International Registry […]

Making the case for a comprehensive national registry for pediatric CKD

20.10.2018 Kids Health

Even though chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global epidemic that imperils cardiovascular health, impairs quality of life and heightens mortality, very little is known about how CKD uniquely impacts children and how kids may be spared from its more devastating effects. That makes a study published in the November 2018 issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases all […]

Contemporary update to PROGRESS-CTO International Registry shows successful outcomes

27.04.2018 Health Problems

A significant update to the PROGRESS-CTO (PROspective Global Registry for the Study of Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention) International Registry was presented today as late-breaking clinical science at Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) Scientific Sessions 2018. The study includes results of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Intervention (CTO PCI) for more than 3,000 patients across 20 centers in the United […]