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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Following controversial guideline, another study connects meat consumption to CVD

Another study has surfaced suggesting that meat—both processed and unprocessed—can have deleterious effects on heart health.

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Child’s odds of surviving CHD contingent on community’s wealth

The largest comprehensive study of congenital heart disease to date has revealed that, despite an overall decline in mortality over the past few decades, a child’s odds of surviving a CHD diagnosis hinge on the economic health of their community.

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Experts dispute 9 of 17 genes once linked to long QT syndrome

A panel of experts from the Clinical Genome Resource are publicly disputing nine of 17 genes once thought to be linked to long QT syndrome.

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Coronary atherectomy is effective in treating severe coronary lesions—but it’s hardly used

A review published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions Jan. 24 suggests adjunctive coronary atherectomy is a clinically useful and effective tool for treating severely calcified coronary lesions—but, in reality, it’s rarely used.

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AI to help ID cardiac arrest from emergency phone calls

Emergency phone operators in Victoria, Australia, may soon have access to AI that could alert them to callers in cardiac arrest, ZDNet reports.

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Making history: Lab-grown cardiomyocytes successfully transplanted for 1st time

Lab-growing cardiomyocytes have been transplanted into a human patient for the first time in medical history, according to a report from the Japan Times.

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Cancer drug could be repurposed to treat HFpEF

Scientists have uncovered a potential new treatment for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)—and it’s one that already exists.

Study reveals similar 5-year outcomes for TAVR, SAVR

An analysis of PARTNER 2 data published in the New England Journal of Medicine Jan. 29 suggests five-year post-op outcomes are similar among heart patients who undergo either transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement.

Around the web

GE HealthCare said the price of iodine contrast increased by more than 200% between 2017 to 2023. Will new Chinese tariffs drive costs even higher?

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.