A prevalence of left atrial fibrosis in endurance athletes could explain their increased risk for arrhythmias like atrial fibrillation (AFib), according to data presented this week at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Munich.

Late-breaking results of a trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)’s 2018 meeting in Munich suggest a removable balloon is as effective as a permanent stent in unblocking small arteries. 

Cardiac surgery doesn’t offer any benefit over medical treatment with antibiotics in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) patients who have infective endocarditis (IE), researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association this month.

Hospice use in the U.S. has grown to nearly 5 percent among elderly patients with heart failure (HF), according to a JAMA Cardiology study published Aug. 29, but palliative care will likely become increasingly difficult as treatment continues to improve.

Environmental metals like arsenic, copper, cadmium and mercury could be contributing factors to cardiovascular disease—even at low levels of exposure and in developed countries, Cambridge researchers reported in the BMJ Aug. 29.

Most consumers at risk for heart disease either fail to look at the nutritional labels on their food or have trouble understanding them, according to a study presented this week at European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2018.

The FDA is mandating a new warning label on all sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors after the drugs were linked to 12 cases of Fournier’s gangrene in diabetic patients over the past five years.

Physicians estimate they’ll save 10,000 lives a year if sudden cardiac arrest patients are resuscitated with laryngeal tubes rather than conventional endotracheal intubation, according to a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association.