Do proton pump inhibitors increase the incidence of bone fractures in hepatitis C patients?
In patients with chronic HCV, use of PPI for >1 year increased the risk of new bone fractures by more than threefold.
The preoperative use of intraaortic balloon pumping appears to shift high-risk patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting into a lower-risk category and is associated with comparable perioperative troponin leakage and short-term and long-term outcomes similar to low-risk patients not receiving intraaortic balloon pumping.