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Angina: management options overview

Around 330,000 new cases of angina are diagnosed in the UK each year. This article looks at the range of treatment options currently available and advice for patients…

Published: 1 June 2013

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How to support patients being treated for chronic heart failure

Patients with heart failure develop a range of symptoms that can be difficult to manage. Pharmacists can help to support them in areas such as medication, diet modification and recognising deterioration…

Published: 1 March 2013

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Percutaneous coronary intervention: preventing complications

This article describes some of the complications that can occur during and after stent implantation and discusses the ways these can be avoided and managed…

Published: 1 January 2013

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Putting oral antithrombotics in context

This article provides a basic overview of the current uses of oral antiplatelet and oral anticoagulant therapy, choices and monitoring.…

Published: 28 April 2012

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Monitoring hypertension: how and why

How many of your patients know their last blood pressure measurement? And for the few who do, what are the important numbers? Jon Waterfield focuses on some of the more pragmatic questions associated with hypertension and looks at some of the current debates in terms its monitoring and assessing car…

Published: 2 October 2010

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Surgery and venous thromboembolism

In the fifth article of a series on peri-operative care, Mohamed H. Rahman and Jane Beattie give an overview of the causes and predisposing risks of venous thromboembolism in patients who have undergone a surgical procedure and non-pharmacological methods of prevention…

Published: 11 November 2004

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Blood tests used to investigate liver, thyroid or kidney function and disease

In this third article in a series on clinical testing, Pamela Mason describes three types of blood test performed by chemical pathology departments…

Published: 11 April 2004

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Arrhythmias: Part 2

This is the second part of an article about arrhythmias.…

Published: 18 October 2003