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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Cooling cardiac arrest patients for 48 hours could be beneficial

Physicians have long used cooling methods to help patients wake up after suffering a cardiac arrest, and researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark are exploring how to make the approach even more effective.

Stroke is increasing in younger populations—but why?

With recent research suggesting that strokes among younger people are becoming more prevalent, healthcare professionals are looking into why.

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Big promises? Questionable stem cell therapies marketed to heart failure patients

In a research letter published online July 24 in JAMA Internal Medicine, four physicians from the St. Louis University contacted 61 centers offering stem cell therapy, which is not approved by the FDA, to heart failure patients.

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Printing 3D hearts

3D printers have created the darnedest things: acoustic guitars that strum and guns that shoot, women’s high-heeled shoes, lights, clocks and even custom-fitted fabric.

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Blood vessel regeneration could help reverse MI tissue damage

A new study done by researchers in the United Kingdom explores how manipulating the hormone leptin to grow new blood vessels could help regenerate tissues in heart failure patients.

Prison populations more vulnerable to heart conditions

A new study by researchers at Yale and Drexel Universities explores the heart health problems associated with incarceration, in populations including those currently in prison and the released.

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AHA recognizes Penn Medicine cardiology researchers

The American Heart Association (AHA) has awarded Benjamin L. Prosser, PhD, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, its Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award.

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LSU research paves way for treatment to prevent brain damage after cardiac arrest

New research from Louisiana State University (LSU) in New Orleans could lead to a treatment that prevents long-term sensory problems that arise from brain damage that can occur in survivors of cardiac arrest.

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.