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Obesity offers no survival edge and poses earlier stroke risk

Stroke survival rates in obese and overweight patients may not be as paradoxical as earlier studies indicate. Researchers in Denmark suggested in a study published June 2 in JAMA Neurology that it might be a combination of comorbid conditions, severity and selection bias.

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Tool IDs patients with poor outcomes after TAVR

A model that includes quality of life (QoL) in its assessment predicted with moderate discrimination patients who likely would have poor outcomes after undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), according to results published online May 23 in Circulation.

SCAI.14: Bleeper warning helps reduce operator radiation exposure by third

Wearing a bleeper device during catheterizations helped lower radiation exposure to operators by about one third in the RadiCure Study. Results from the late-breaking randomized controlled clinical trial were presented May 30 at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) scientific session in Las Vegas.

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SCAI.14: ORBIT II maintains benefits while shaving costs

Significant per-patient savings and better outcomes may be possible with an atherectomy device presented as a late-breaking clinical trial May 30 at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) scientific session in Las Vegas. Compared with Medicare patients, ORBIT II patients saw a cost reduction of over $2,500 per patient and a shorter hospital stay by up to three days.

Hospital pays $41M to settle overstenting case

A hospital in Kentucky agreed to pay almost $41 million to put a case alleging unnecessary cardiac stenting and diagnostic catheterizations behind it.

eCardio and Yocaly will jointly advance remote cardiac monitoring in the United States

eCardio Diagnostics, LLC (eCardio), a leader in remote cardiac arrhythmia monitoring services in the United States, and Shandong Yocaly Information Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Yocaly), a remote, real-time medical cardiac monitoring solution provider headquartered in Jinan, China, have recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement focused on furthering the advancement of remote cardiac monitoring products and services in the United States, China and beyond.

Severe heart failure may put patients at risk for diabetes

Patients receiving an increased loop-diuretic dose rate of heart failure drugs may have a greater risk of developing diabetes.

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Medtronic pays $9.9M to settle kickback claims

Medtronic has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle a whistleblower case over alleged kickbacks to physicians who treated patients with its pacemakers and defibrillators.

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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.

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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.