Week in Review: The top US hospitals for cardiology | Accurate AI | Heart Rhythm 2021 & TVT 2021

Cleveland Clinic retained its spot as the top hospital in the country for cardiology and heart surgery. Did your facility make the list?

Researchers stressed that clinicians have an opportunity to improve their machine learning models by providing data on specific social and environmental factors. 

Needless platelet activity in the lungs may be one of the primary reasons clinicians are seeing inflammation and blood clotting in critically ill COVID-19 patients.

"We thought that illicit drugs like cocaine or methamphetamine, which can lead to heart attacks, would prove to be dangerous,” one researcher said. "However, we were wrong."

Researchers presented the new data at Heart Rhythm 2021.

The digital therapeutic helps patients follow recommended treatment guidelines by monitoring their health data, connecting them to healthcare providers and personalizing their treatment when necessary.

Declining elective PCI rates, a shift toward the outpatient setting and changes in the initial management of stable ischemic heart disease all appear to be responsible for the drop.

The authors tracked data from stroke patients, and healthy controls, between the ages of 15 and 49 years old. 

New two-year findings, presented at TVT 2021, suggest that the Watchman FLX device is a safe alternative to long-term oral anticoagulation therapy.

Physicians and patients may want to consider selecting ARBs instead of ACE inhibitors as an initial treatment for hypertension, based on a new analysis in Hypertension.