World Heart Day webinar to focus on CCTA, FFR-CT | AFib recurrence after ablation | PET in long-COVID patients

The free webinar, scheduled for Sept. 29, will examine the benefits of using CCTA and FFR-CT to manage chest pain patients. 

Asking patients to use smartphone-powered ECG devices following catheter ablation procedures could be incredibly beneficial, according to new findings published in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology. 

Researchers noted that patients appeared to have myocarditis at first, but a closer examination revealed it was something else entirely. 

“Many within the healthcare industry believe that cardiovascular care will be increasingly delivered in non-traditional ambulatory settings,” according to one author. “The cardiovascular care community must consider and prepare for this eventuality."

What are the latest updates on treating tricuspid regurgitation? We spoke with a leading researcher at ESC Congress 2023 to find out. 

The two anticoagulants are associated with similar mortality rates. However, a new meta-analysis in Circulation may have cardiologists favoring bivalirudin over heparin. 

Access to cannabis is skyrocketing across the United States, but much more research is still needed on its long-term side effects. 

Interventional cardiologists with Henry Ford Health performed the historic procedure on an 85-year-old patient who had been experiencing worsening symptoms for a full year.

The deal includes both cash and stock, and is expected to be finalized early next year.

“Physicians coming out of training are being recruited like blue chip athletes,” said AMN Healthcare's Leah Grant.