Highlights for Monday, April 11

Here are 3 articles picked for this week by McMaster editors as suggested reading. This time, we will be exploring the following questions: What are the effects of herpes zoster vaccination? How to repair an aortic valve? What are the effects of thrombectomy in ischemic stroke?

Gagliardi AM, Gomes Silva BN, Torloni MR, Soares BG. Vaccines for preventing herpes zoster in older adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Oct 17;10:CD008858. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008858.pub2.

Leon MB, Smith CR, Mack MJ, et al; PARTNER 2 Investigators. Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients. N Engl J Med. 2016 Apr 2. [Epub ahead of print].

Goyal M, Menon BK, van Zwam WH, et al; HERMES collaborators. Endovascular thrombectomy after large-vessel ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from five randomised trials. Lancet. 2016 Feb 18. pii: S0140-6736(16)00163-X. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00163-X. [Epub ahead of print].