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For patients who have undergone continuous‐flow left ventricular assist device (CF‐LVAD) implantation, treatment with amiodarone may do more harm than good, with a recent study showing that it contributes to increased risk of mortality.

Adjuvant therapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and low molecular weight heparin in high-risk patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) does not help prevent the development of proliferative vitreoretinopathy, as shown in a study.

In patients with gout and end-stage renal disease (ESRD), haemodialysis appears to have an additional benefit of lowering uric acid (UA) levels, a study has found.

The use of pranlukast in infants with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections appears to help avoid the need for respiratory support, a recent Japan study has found.

Among patients undergoing femoropopliteal artery revascularization, mortality risk was not affected regardless of whether they were treated with drug-coated devices (DCDs) or non–drug-coated devices (NDCDs), according to updated results of the SAFE-PAD* study presented at SCAI 2022.

Patients with relapsed or refractory FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and with prior exposure to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) may benefit from gilteritinib treatment, which leads to better remission and survival outcomes than salvage chemotherapy, a recent study has found.