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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.   

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MRI findings may signal patients' receptiveness to different mental health treatment methods

Differences in connectivity patterns could reveal which patients are most likely to respond positively to self-guided therapy.

Newsweek ranked the 50 best heart hospitals in the world

New LAAO guidelines: 6 key takeaways for interventional cardiologists and electrophysiologists

SCAI and HRS have collaborated on new guidelines designed to help clinicians make the safest, smartest treatment decisions possible.

Boston Scientific’s Agent Drug-Coated Balloon (DCB), which delivers a therapeutic dose of the anti-proliferative drug paclitaxel to the patient’s scar tissue to prevent ISR from recurring, gained FDA approval on March 1..

Boston Scientific’s coronary DCB gains new Medicare reimbursement

The first coronary DCB to gain FDA approval just received an additional reimbursement that could improve patient access. 

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Heart surgeon performs first robotic aortic valve replacement of its kind

The minimally invasive operation, known as AVATAR, is performed through a small incision in the patient’s neck.

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Pascal system from Edwards Lifesciences linked to key benefits after M-TEER, T-TEER

The interventional device, designed to perform both M-TEER and T-TEER, is at the center of two new studies published in EuroIntervention.

COVID significantly increases risk of death from metastatic cancer, new study shows

Viruses like COVID-19 and the flu could awaken dormant cancer cells that have previously spread to the lungs, triggering growth of metastatic disease.

Largest U.S. pharmacist association has major concerns about government labeling it a biased special interest group

The American Pharmacists Association is being labeled as a biased special interest group under new rules for the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a move that seems to be politically motivated when APhA did not support changes in COVID vaccines earlier this year. 

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Exploring the value of same-day permanent pacemaker implantation after TAVR

Temporary pacemakers are typically used for at least 24 hours before care teams consider implanting a permanent device. New research out of Canada suggests it may make sense in certain scenarios to go straight to the permanent pacemaker.