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We need to change the conversation on women, chest pain and coronary artery disease (CAD). Two leading experts will review women’s unique biology, risk factors, and presenting symptoms of heart disease during this webinar. They also will discuss better ways to detect and diagnose CAD, and how cardiac CT and FFR_CT can identify those at-risk and in need of treatment. Join us to learn how cardiovascular (CV) teams can identify women at risk of CAD who are most likely to benefit from further testing and treatment.

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The CDC defines severe obesity, or class III obesity, as any patient with a BMI of 40 or higher. TAVR among these patients is not associated with a lower survival rate, but it does lead to many more risks.

Read more about TAVR in patients with severe obesity: Longer hospital stays, higher costs, more health risks

Illustration of a left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) procedure using a Watchman device. Image courtesy of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

TEE and ICE are each associated with certain advantages and disadvantages, researchers explained. The new analysis included data from nearly 40,000 patients.

Read more about ICE-guided Watchman procedures linked to safety concerns—is TEE better for LAAO or will things improve?

According to the U.S. government, Asante Health System and one of its surgeons knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE for more than six years.

Read more about Oregon health system, cardiothoracic surgeon agree to pay $430K to settle fraud allegations

The 28-year-old woman says she drank two and a half Charged Lemonade drinks and was in the emergency room the very next day. According to her lawsuit, she was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and is now taking daily heart medications.

Read more about Woman files lawsuit claiming Panera’s highly caffeinated beverages gave her heart issues

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Craig Sable, MD, uses artificial intelligence to evaluate a pediatric patient for rheumatic heart disease. Image courtesy of Children's National Hospital.

Researchers think this represents a potential breakthrough for low- and middle-income countries where access to high-quality imaging evaluations is still limited.

Read more about AI spots signs of rheumatic heart disease in echocardiograms as well as cardiologists

Jamie Bourque, MD, medical director of the nuclear cardiology and stress laboratory, and medical director of the echocardiography lab, at the University of Virginia, discusses a new multimodality consensus statement for imaging cardiac amyloidosis. This area has rapidly expanded over the past couple years now that there are drugs to treat the condition. Examples of nuclear imaging for cardiac amyloidosis.

Interest in cardiac amyloidosis has been on the rise in recent years. Jamie Bourque, MD, talked to Cardiovascular Business about an upcoming consensus statement focused on using cardiac imaging to evaluate patients for signs of this serious condition.

Read more about New ASNC quality metrics will support standardization of imaging for cardiac amyloidosis

money business cash flow dollar. Kingsway Financial Services, a Chicago-based holding company with subsidiaries in several industries, has acquired New Jersey-based Digital Diagnostics Imaging (DDI) for $11 million. The transaction was funded with $5.4 million in cash and $5.6 million in debt financing.

Integer's estimated 2023 sales nearly reached $1.6 billion, up 16% compared to 2022. According to the company's statement, this acquisition helps expand its footprint in several key markets.

Read more about Integer acquires medical device specialists with experience in structural heart, electrophysiology for $140M

Basic views of transjugular intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) during transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Image courtesy of Ishizu et al.

Heart teams can limit the risk of conduction disturbances that lead to permanent pacemaker implantation by utilizing both the cusp-overlap method and intracardiac echocardiography.

Read more about ICE guidance reduces risk of permanent pacemaker implantation after TAVR with a self-expandable valve

Rob deKemp, PhD, FASNC, University of Ottawa, Canada, explains new nuclear cardiac imaging dose lowering techniques for PET and SPECT.

The radiation doses associated with CT have decreased significantly, leaving nuclear cardiology as the modality with the highest doses in all of cardiac imaging. Rob deKemp, PhD, talked to us about some of the many ways imagers can work to address this issue.

Read more about How to achieve much lower radiation doses in cardiac nuclear imaging