Week in Review: Star Trek star's family awarded $13M | AI for cardiac amyloidosis | TAVR concerns | New CKM syndrome guidelines

Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura in Star Trek, died from undiagnosed and untreated heart failure after seeking medical treatment.

FFR-CT literature has reached a state of maturity where experts can comfortably start to provide guidelines to the wider community. 

This could enable ECG to become a primary screening tool for a largely underdiagnosed cardiac disease.

A vast majority of patient deaths in the first year after TAVR have nothing to do with heart health. Could care teams be doing more to identify high-risk patients? 

A failed TAVR procedure has left one family unsure about where things went wrong. 

Science shows the deep relationship between cardiac, kidney and metabolism issues that may impact up to 90% of the U.S. population.  

A left internal mammary artery takedown robot-assisted heart procedure is the latest milestone for an Indian robotics company.

These programs may provide benefits in some cases. In others, however, there is a concern that they could actually lead to higher costs over time.