TT HealthWatch - Friday, January 10, 2025
This week's topics include catheter material for PICC lines, a diabetes medication for kidney stones, driver mutation clearance and relapse prediction, and exercise and heart failure.
0:44 Exercise and heart failure
1:44 322 patients with heart failure and normal ejection fraction
2:45 What percentage continued?
3:30 Kidney stone prevention with empagliflozin
4:30 Once-daily followed by placebo
5:30 Also effective in heart failure
6:30 Also in gout?
6:40 Driver mutations in myelofibrosis
7:42 Tested blood for mutations
8:42 Looking for driver mutations for other cancers
9:05 Materials for PICC lines
10:05 Rates of device failure
11:05 Clots or infection possible
12:24 End