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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.   

Samir Kapadia, MD, Cleveland Clinic TAVR transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Q&A: Discussing TAVR trends with cardiologist Samir Kapadia of Cleveland Clinic

What's next for TAVR? What trends should clinicians be focused on as time goes on? Kapadia shared his perspective in a new interview. 

Incoming American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) President Ehsan Samei, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, FSPIE, FAIMBE, FIOMP, FACR, chief imaging physicist for Duke University Health System and the Reed and Martha Rice Distinguished Professor of Radiology at Duke, is part of the team that developed the two specialized, medical-grade mannequin humans to test how much radiation NASA astronauts will receive on the Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

VIDEO: Radiology expertise used to create radiation astronaut phantoms for the Artemis I moon mission

Incoming AAPM President Ehsan Samei, PhD, FACR, chief imaging physicist for Duke University Health System, helped develop two specialized radiology phantom astronauts to measure how much radiation NASA astronauts will receive on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

Stroke patients with AFib face a higher mortality risk after thrombectomy

A comparative meta-analysis found similar procedural outcomes, but higher 90-day mortality—partially attributable to a higher rate of comorbidities.

5 avenues along which the 10-year-old Society of Abdominal Radiology is advancing

Did you know the SAR formed when the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists merged with the Society of Uroradiology?

COVID-19’s impact on cardiovascular health mostly felt in the first 30 days

The new study, published in PLOS ONE, included registry data from nearly 4,500 patients. While COVID-19 patients faced a heightened risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes early on, many of those risks faded after approximately one month. 

AVS Pulse PIVL

Interventional cardiology specialists raise $20M to continue IVL research

AVS, a Michigan-based medical device company, has said the funding will help accelerate research on its new Pulse P-IVL system. One clinical trial is already underway. 

Emerging imaging technologies boosted by COVID research

As the field of radiology research adapted to withstand the pandemic’s challenges, it morphed in some decidedly beneficial ways.

The Shimadzu Trinias SCORE Opera Angiography system at RSNA 2022. It offers dose lowering technologies and workflow efficiencies. #RSNA #RSNA22

VIDEO: Shimadzu lowers dose and speeds workflow with new Trinias SCORE Opera angiography system

Sponsored by Shimadzu

Shimadzu Medical Systems USA released the latest version of its Trinias angiography system at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2022 meeting to address radiation concerns and to help improve workflow.