Overall, researchers wrote in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the PASCAL repair system has been working as it was intended.

The new findings are part of a virtual conference being hosted by the American College of Cardiology. 

Overall, 60% of patients demonstrated complete freedom from recurrences of atrial fibrillation or atrial tachycardias.

Chest pain is one of the most common reasons adults in the United States visit the emergency department, leading to more than 7 million patient encounters each year.

Sold as Verquvo, the medication can help patients reduce their risk of cardiovascular death or hospitalization for heart failure.

The study’s authors explored data from more than 28,000 women, focusing on the impact of dozens of biomarkers. 

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

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.”

Google searches for “telehealth” have fallen far since peaking in March 2020. However, the term is plateauing at a rate that’s 320% higher than in pre-pandemic times.