Clinical

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 cardiologyheart failure, electrophysiologyhypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

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Exploring the connection between obesity & severe COVID-19 infections

Obesity is “causally related” to numerous conditions, and those associations all seem relevant as healthcare providers consider how patients could be affected by this ongoing pandemic.

Abbott’s line of next-generation heart rhythm devices gains FDA approval

The devices offer numerous new features, including an improved battery, MRI compatibility and Bluetooth connectivity.

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What decades-old dietary recommendations for high cholesterol get wrong

Patients diagnosed with familiar hypercholesterolemia should work to lower carbohydrates, not saturated fats, according to a new study published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.

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Common blood pressure medications may reduce colorectal cancer risk

The use of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) is associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer.

COVID-19 patients with STEMI present specialists with new challenges

COVID-19 patients presenting with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) experience a high rate of stent thrombosis.

Comparing COVID-19's stroke rate with those of other respiratory infections

The researchers compared hospitalized COVID-19 patients with influenza patients treated in 2018.

Scientists develop new protein that could limit damage during, and after, a stroke

The protein was designed to prevent cell death through the disruption of two specific Kv2.1 channels.

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CMS proposes coverage updates, and a name change, for TMVR

CMS has proposed expanding its national coverage policy for transcatheter edge-to-edge repair of the mitral valve so that it includes patients with functional mitral regurgitation. 

Around the web

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.

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