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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What cardiologists should know about MIPS participation and COVID-19

Cardiologists participating in MIPS in 2020 didn’t exactly plan on providing care during a global pandemic.

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How telemedicine could change the lives of stroke survivors

Approximately one in four stroke survivors are affected by disabling anxiety, but there are currently no specific guidelines in place to help these individuals. Could telemedicine be the answer? 

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Outcomes continue to be favorable for low-risk TAVR patients receiving self-expanding valve

Low-risk transcatheter atortic valve replacement (TAVR) patients with aortic stenosis who receive the Evolut PRO continue to experience outcomes comparable to surgery.

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Sapien 3 TAVR outcomes comparable to surgery after 5 years

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with the Sapien 3 prosthesis achieved five-year clinical outcomes similar to surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR).

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A fresh look at what does (age, diabetes) and does not (hypertension) predict death from COVID-19

A new analysis explored if age, numerous comorbidities, the use of CVD medication and Charleston Comorbidity Index scores can be used to predict mortality among confirmed COVID-19 patients. 

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Catheter-based heart failure treatment gains breakthrough device designation

preCARDIA announced that its catheter-based system for acutely decompensated heart failure has received the FDA’s breakthrough device designation.

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TAVR-related bleeding complications plummet with protamine administration

Protamine administration during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is associated with a significant reduction in life-threatening and major bleeding complications.

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Cardiologists shed new light on COVID-19 and cardiac arrhythmias

A higher rate of cardiac arrhythmias has been observed in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, but new research suggests there’s more behind that trend than the virus itself.

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.