The AHA Mission: Lifeline Program was designed to reduce STEMI patient transfer times, but response times still often lag, and new protocols may be needed to expedite STAT transfers.
The Medtronic Symplicity Spyral Renal Denervation system uses a catheter that curls in the renal artery to place radiofrequency electrodes against the vessel wall and ablate the nerves controlling vasodilation, so the artery can be propped in the fully open position.
The SPYRAL HTN-ON MED renal denervation trial failed to show that renal denervation was superior to sham control at improving ambulatory blood pressure (ABPM), but that might have been due to patient lifestyle changes during COVID-19.
Brian Lindman, MD, medical director of the Structural Heart and Valve Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, explains the new American Heart Association (AHA) Target Aortic Stenosis (AS) program to screen with echo to find more AS patients.
The more a patient has to pay for medications, the less likely they are to take them. This was the finding of a new study showing how copayments may be a barrier to drugs to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension.
U.S. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, a cardiologist, spoke at the opening session of the American Heart Association (AHA) 2022 meeting about the need for doctors and health systems to step up to address two major problems - misinformation and health disparities.
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, who is a cardiologist, spoke at the opening session of the American Heart Association about the need to step up and address two major problems in the American healthcare system.
The American Heart Association 2022 Scientific Sessions included 35 late-breaking studies and 39 featured science sessions presented at the meeting in Chicago, Nov. 5-7. Here is the list of all these studies with links to more information on the data.
