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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Updated ACC registry data provides latest PCI trends

Recently, the ACC released updated data from CathPCI, which showed that more than 90 percent of PCI-capable hospitals in the U.S. used the registry. Of those sites, 70 percent submit data for all diagnostic catheterization and PCI procedures.

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Mount Sinai researchers identify cells linked to ventricular chamber development

Researchers from Mount Sinai in New York found a population of cells that are linked to the development of heart ventricular chambers.

Mayo Clinic, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announce rare congenital heart defect collaboration

Mayo Clinic’s Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are collaborating to delay and prevent heart failure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare and complex form of congenital heart disease in which the left side of a child's heart is severely underdeveloped.

Police charge Ohio man with arson, insurance fraud based on pacemaker data

Police in Ohio charged a man with arson based in part on data collected from his pacemaker, the Associated Press reports.

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Researchers find fruit fly genes can help treat congenital heart disease

Researchers from the Children’s National Health System have found a way to create personalized therapies for patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) using fruit flies.

Heart surgeon first to perform sutureless heart surgery in Washington state

Hassan Tehrani, MD, a Deaconess Hospital surgeon in Spokane, Washington, has become the first in the state to perform a heart valve replacement surgery using a less invasive, sutureless procedure, reports KomoNews.com.

FDA clears Medtronic products for diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures, PCIs

The FDA cleared Medtronic’s DxTerity diagnostic angiography catheter line and several of the company’s transradial-specific products, all of which are used in diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures and PCIs.

HIV-infected patients may be more likely to have type 2 MIs

More than half of MIs among HIV-infected patients were classified as type 2 MIs that occurred in the setting of a mismatch between oxygen demand and supply, according to a longitudinal study.

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.