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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New scoring system predicts rupture risk for patients with arteriovenous malformations

The risk stratification system was put to the test in more than 3,000 cases and proved itself to be a beneficial tool in predicting future AVM rupture across multiple risk groups.

Atrium Health and Best Buy Health Partner to Improve Experience When Receiving Care at Home

Best Buy makes healthcare play with Atrium Health partnership

The new collaboration aims to enable providers to provide hospital-level care at home, leaning on Atrium Health’s telemedicine services and Best Buy Health’s ongoing care at home platform.

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Keto-like diets linked to increased risk of high cholesterol, heart disease

New research, presented during ACC.23/WCC in New Orleans, has raised fresh concerns about the potential cardiovascular-related drawbacks of high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets. 

Atul Verma, MD, head of cardiology at McGill University Health Centre

Day 3 at ACC.23 features late-breaking studies on pulsed-field ablation, other new technologies

The third and final day of ACC.23 featured a key update on Medtronic's pulsed-field ablation technology and many other late-breaking clinical studies. 

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Infertility linked to a higher risk of coronary heart disease

The associations were strongest for women who experienced infertility at the age of 25 or younger. 

ACC 2023 ACC.23 American College of Cardiology

Day 2 at ACC.23 features late-breaking studies on TEER, TAVR, EHR alerts and much more

Catch up on the biggest news that came out of the second day of ACC.23 in New Orleans. 

ACC.23 Together with the World Congress of Cardiology

Day 1 at ACC.23 features late-breaking studies on bempedoic acid, tricuspid valve repair and statins

The conference kicked off with three late-breaking studies that could have a huge impact on patient care going forward. 

Large study finds high rates of nonadherence to statin recommendations; women especially averse

Many patients who would clearly benefit by lowered LDL cholesterol levels are choosing to forgo first-time recommendations for statin regimens, according to a population-level study.