News & Updates

The combination immunotherapy of nivolumab (NIVO) and ipilimumab (IPI) continues to provide durable survival benefit over chemotherapy in the first-line setting in patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), despite the patients having been off immunotherapy for 1 year, according to the 3-year data from the CheckMate 743 trial presented at ESMO 2021.

In patients with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) who require mechanical ventilation and deep sedation, the use of ketamine has a propofol- and vasopressor-sparing effect, as shown in a study.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, affecting millions of people globally. Stroke is one of its devastating complications, with the risk steeply increasing with advancing age. Additionally, AF is associated with more than a tripling of the risk of systemic embolic (SE) events. [J Am Heart Assoc 2020;9:e016724]

Having high cholesterol during pregnancy is associated with more serious acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in offspring in later life, suggests a retrospective study.

People who need to check their blood pressure (BP) regularly to confirm if they have hypertension prefer BP monitoring done at home rather than at a clinic, kiosk, or through a 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM), suggest findings from the Blood Pressure Checks for Diagnosing Hypertension (BP-CHECK) trial presented at Hypertension 2021.

The intraoperative administration of dexamethasone in patients with non-immunogenic cancers may have survival benefits, according to a retrospective cohort study from the US presented at Anesthesiology 2021.