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Cardiac amyloidosis ATTR-CM drug promotion at the 2024 American Heart Association meeting.

Acoramidis was associated with a 43% lower risk of diuretic intensification and a 34% lower risk of clinical worsening overall.

Damodhar Suresh, MD, executive medical director of St. Elizabeth Healthcare Heart and Vascular Institute in Edgewood, Kentucky. He is also a volunteer current science chair for the International committee for the American Heart Association (AHA), explains how the AHA is helping cardiologists from numerous countries put in place systems of care to standardize how heart attack patients are treated.

American Heart Association has developed systems of care that can help developing countries improve their heart attack and stroke care and boost survival.

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The doctor, visiting Montana from Pennsylvania for a ski trip, says he did not even realize at first what had happened.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for Traferox Technologies' X°Port Heart Preservation System. The new device offers static 10°C (50°F) heart preservation during transport prior to transplantation, which has been shown in studies to improve outcomes.

The news comes as clinical evidence supporting heart preservation at 50 degrees F (10 degrees C) continues to grow.

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When heart patients are diagnosed with severe AS, how quickly do they need to undergo TAVR? That was the focus of a new analysis published in Open Heart.

The Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Heart Institute was the first to perform a completely catheter-based Fontan procedure. Rather than using open-heart surgery to complete the child’s Fontan circulation, the 2-year-old born with a double-outlet right ventricle underwent a catheter-based approach to avoid open-heart surgery.

Specialists from the fields of interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery collaborated to perform what is believed to be the first completely catheter-based Fontan procedure in U.S. history. The young patient's recovery was much easier than it would have been otherwise.