A protein known to protect brain function in the setting of Duchenne muscular dystrophy may also have a positive impact on the heart, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences scientific sessions on Aug. 1 in San Antonio.

Continually updated mortality models based on adverse events and end-organ function are better at showing which transplant candidates most urgently require a new heart, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Researchers have developed an online tool to more accurately calculate which middle-aged individuals are at the highest risk of heart attack or stroke during the next 10 years.

A simple measure of waist circumference could identify chronic heart failure patients who would benefit most from mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists, according to a review published July 25 in JAMA Cardiology.

In following patients with heart failure for up to 15 years, Spanish cardiologists found left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) followed an inverse U-shape: LVEF improved for the first year, then plateaued for the rest of the first decade and declined in the following years—especially before death.

Rapid Medical has received CE mark approval for its Tigertriever 13 clot retriever, the smallest such device on the market which is designed to treat intracranial vessels between one and 2.5 millimeters.

Italian physicians reported what they believe to be “unprecedented clinical improvement” from interleukin-1 suppression in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy.

A former jail nurse has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for manslaughter after she was found guilty of causing the death of a diabetic inmate who went a week without insulin.