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João Cavalcante, MD, Minneapolis Heart Institute, spoke at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2023 meeting to try and get more radiologists interested in cardiac imaging to help fill the rising need for cardiac imagers on structural heart teams and a growing number of other types of heart and acute care teams.

Filling the crucial role of multimodality imagers on the heart team

João Cavalcante, MD, spoke at RSNA 2023 about key topics and tried to get more radiologists interested in cardiac imaging.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week has the first cleared the pulsed field ablation (PFA) system, the Medtronic PulseSelect System for the treatment of both paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation (AF).

FDA clears first pulsed field ablation system to treat AFib

"The PulseSelect PFA system ushers the EP community to a new era of safe, effective and efficient AF ablation that overcomes many challenges in our current practice," said Amin Al-Ahmad, MD, St. David's Medical Center in Austin, Texas. 

AFib before and after TAVR linked to significant risks

The new study included data on patients who presented for TAVR with preexisting AFib as well as those who developed new-onset AFib after the procedure. 

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Medical malpractice ruling: Hospital to pay $39M over young heart patient’s death

Prosecutors successfully argued that the patient would not have died if clinicians had ordered a routine CT exam. 

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Nevada health system accused of creating a heart surgery monopoly in new lawsuit

The health system allegedly ended an ongoing contract with little notice, leaving clinicians and patients without the services of a cardiovascular surgery program. 

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Good to great: 5 ways to help sonographers deliver better echocardiograms and improve the diagnosis of severe AS

Sponsored by Medtronic

Hospitals should be making every effort to help sonographers deliver better, more accurate echocardiograms and improve the diagnosis of severe aortic stenosis. If you take care of your sonographers, your sonographers will take care of you. 

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‘A huge victory for patient care’: Next-gen TAVR valve helps cardiologists target more patients

Sponsored by Medtronic

“The Evolut FX system is an improvement over previous Evolut system devices and it delivers better overall results to our patients,” says interventional cardiologist Guilherme Attizzani, MD. “It is an ideal solution for a majority of our patients.”

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Early survival data favor valve-in-valve TAVR over redo SAVR—long-term data flip the script

Valve-in-valve TAVR outperforms redo SAVR for the first six months after treatment, according to a new meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Cardiology. Then, however, things begin to shift.

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Key takeaways from RSNA 2024 for AI, CT, MRI and the radiology staffing shortage

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.

Health Imaging
Use of AI opportunistic screening in CT for cardiovascular disease

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.