24% of heart failure patients hospitalized with COVID-19 die | CMS expands Medicare coverage for TMVR

The authors examined data from more than 1.2 million patients, tracking individuals who had previously been hospitalized for heart failure and then returned later due to COVID-19. 

Physicians may want to think twice before prescribing certain medications, including drugs for pain or depression, to some female patients, the authors observed. 

Abbott described the update as "critically important," and the American College of Cardiology expressed relief that some proposed changes did not actually end up happening. 

Researchers compared patient outcomes from 2019 with data from the pandemic’s first four months, sharing their findings in the American Journal of Cardiology.  

Patients are typically told to put anticoagulation therapy on hold two to four days before they undergo TAVR. This study’s authors aimed to see if this was truly necessary.  

The authors found a link between six months of empagliflozin and a reduction in extracellular volume, sharing their findings in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.

Some cardiologists vow to go out with their scrubs on, says St. Vincent Heart Center’s Mary Norine Walsh, MD, as she recalls an interventional cardiologist who declared that when he left the cath lab, he’d be gone for good, not doing “office work.”

When is it time to retire? It’s a knotty, uncomfortable yet inevitable question.

Providers at Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington shared a "high degree" of understanding for 17 of 18 commonly used phrases, researchers explained in AJR.