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This channel newsfeed includes clinical content on treating patients or the clinical implications in a variety of cardiac subspecialties and disease states. The channel includes news on cardiac surgery, interventional cardiology, heart failure, electrophysiology, hypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

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Blood transfusions limit brain damage, lead to ‘profoundly improved’ stroke outcomes

Blood substitution therapy removes inflammatory cells from the body, limiting some of the more extreme side effects associated with experiencing a stroke. 

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Healing damaged hearts: New breakthrough could change cardiac care as we know it

Chemists have uncovered a new technique that could make it possible to heal a patient’s damaged heart tissue after a myocardial infarction (MI).

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Veterans experience worse PCI outcomes at community hospitals than VA facilities

There was a 33% increase in a patient’s hazard for mortality if they received care at a community hospital.

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Blood pressure medications boost COVID-19 survival rates

The study's authors explored data from more than 28,000 patients. 

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TAVR outcomes similar after conscious sedation and general anesthesia

The new research out of Germany suggests both strategies are safe and effective for patients. 

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A historic first: Researchers grow functional heart model the size of a sesame seed

The cardiac models were created using human stem cells. Each one is able to beat in less than a week. 

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How population density can influence TAVR utilization, patient outcomes

Patient access to TAVR centers is often limited in rural areas where resources are in short supply.

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Severely obese patients four times as likely to die from COVID-19

A patient's risk of death is also greater when they are male or 60 years old or younger.

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Radiology Business
Key takeaways from RSNA 2024 for AI, CT, MRI and the radiology staffing shortage

Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

Health Imaging
Use of AI opportunistic screening in CT for cardiovascular disease

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.