Topics | Cardiovascular Business

Acute Coronary Syndrome

FDA approves new solution for reducing heart muscle damage after serious heart attacks

Risk of death skyrockets when COVID-19 patients have both CVD and myocardial injury

Fewer treatments, higher readmission rates: Tracking outcomes for homeless patients after heart attacks

Exercising while social distancing: recommendations in the face of COVID-19

Mental stress associated with repeat heart attacks, death from heart disease

Cardiovascular Imaging

Doesn’t miss a beat: AI assesses cardiac function faster than cardiologists

‘A win-win for everyone’: Ultrasound technique provides improved arrhythmia assessments

What PET imaging can tell cardiologists about post-heart transplant survival

EKGs may soon screen for cardiomyopathy, thanks to AI

Portable MRIs bring imaging to stroke patients’ bedsides

Coronary Intervention & Surgery

Heart bypass patients experience improved outcomes when surgeons use radial artery

Orsiro stent continues to outperform Xience at 3 years

Utah Supreme Court paves way for thousands to seek legal action against cardiologist

EXCEL: Researchers accused of withholding key mortality data

Philips announces RCT to study patient outcomes after iFR-guided PCI

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

For TAVR patients with AFib, antiplatelet medication linked to poorer outcomes

Nearly half of all serious cardiac events among pregnant women with heart disease are preventable

E-cigarette interferes with user’s implantable cardiac device, creating potential for ‘fatal consequences’

How one hospital is perfecting mechanical CPR in the ED

Many older AFib patients prescribed inappropriately dosed DOACs

Healthcare Economics & Policy

Health groups ask CMS for prior authorization relief during COVID-19 pandemic

EuroHeartCare 2020 canceled over COVID-19 concerns

As COVID-19 pandemic continues, healthcare groups call for government action on equipment shortages

More cardiology conferences canceled over COVID-19 concerns

AHA commits $2.5M to COVID-19 research

Heart Failure

Statins reduce risk of developing HF from breast cancer therapies

HF patients with type 2 diabetes can safely be treated with liraglutide

Heart-failure patients lose years of life when air pollution is a neighbor

LVAD recipients see heightened risk of suicide

Ablation continues to benefit patients with concomitant HF, AFib

Hypertension

Hypertension and COVID-19: 4 key things patients should know

Hypertension-related CVD mortality spikes 72% in rural areas, 20% in metros

24-hour blood pressure assessments provide little value

A new warning for heart patients as COVID-19 continues to spread

Patients with COVID-19 should keep taking key CVD medications

Lipids & Metabolic

Diets including tofu, other plant proteins linked to lower heart disease risk

Certain combos of statins, antihypertensives lower dementia risk

Carcinogens found in 16 lots of metformin

Trulicity approved to reduce MACE in patients with T2D

FDA approves bempedoic acid to treat familial hypercholesterolemia

Practice Management

How to provide emergency cardiovascular care, including CPR, for children with COVID-19

Cardiologist-led COVID-19 study to focus on protecting healthcare workers

As COVID-19 pandemic continues, healthcare groups call for government action on equipment shortages

35% of US cardiologists suffer from burnout, 44% feel stressed

Exhaustion and solidarity: Cardiologists share experiences from front lines of COVID-19 pandemic

Structural & Congenital Heart Disease

E-cigarettes can help smokers quit—but do not use them casually, researchers warn

TAVR outcomes worse than expected at 11% of US facilities

TAVR ‘viable and safe’ for patients with a bicuspid valve

Heart patients have cause to be hypervigilant about COVID-19

Canadian cardiologists perform world’s 1st minimally invasive tricuspid valve replacement

Vascular & Endovascular

Stroke surgeons issue warning to public: Time is still brain during COVID-19 pandemic

Cardiac injury in COVID-19 patients associated with higher in-hospital mortality

Abdominal stent graft solution from Endologix gains FDA approval

Risk of death from stroke drops 24%

FDA updates warnings for cigarette packaging, advertisements—compliance required by June 2021

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