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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 cardiology, heart failure, electrophysiology, hypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.

New AI model uses ECG images to evaluate heart failure risk
The advanced algorithm only needs an image or photograph of a 12-lead ECG to make its assessment.
TAVR valve’s spontaneous leaflet rupture highlights importance of long-term follow-up
Cardiologists believe this is the first time this exact complication has been reported. Even patients who present with no known risk factors, they said, should receive regular follow-up care to ensure such incidents do not go untreated.
Cholesterol appears on man’s hands after he lived on diet of hamburgers, sticks of butter
The patient, who was primarily eating meat, cheese and entire sticks of butter, said the yellow nodules did not hurt in any way. His cholesterol level exceeded 1000 mg/dL at the time of treatment.
Heart transplant patients on Medicaid face a higher risk of major complications
In addition, researchers noted, five-year mortality was inferior for patients on Medicaid when compared to patients with any other type of insurance.
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's cause similar cognitive symptoms, but show opposing patterns on MRI
This new information on the pathogenesis of both conditions could be useful for the development of interventions targeted at slowing cognitive decline.

Same-day discharge after LAAO is safe, cost-effective and ‘could become the new standard’

Same-day discharge was associated with a 15% reduction in healthcare costs.

Consumers struggle to understand quarantine guidance following at-home COVID test results

People were particularly confused with how to handle negative test results in the context of high-risk situations, i.e., symptoms and close contact, experts reported in a new study.

'Foaming' cells may help researchers evaluate CVD risk

The team hopes its efforts can improve the way we predict a patient's risk of heart attack or stroke.

COVID-19 coronavirus burnout depression pandemic

41% of Americans have experienced heart-related issues during the pandemic

Shortness of breath, dizziness, increased blood pressure and chest pain were among the most commonly reported issues.

Left main PCI still safe at hospitals without onsite cardiac surgery

The new analysis focused on in-hospital, 30-day and long-term outcomes.

Metformin boosts outcomes for patients with HF and diabetes—sulfonylurea initiation makes things worse

Sulfonylureas, researchers wrote, "may best be avoided" among patients with both HF and diabetes.

Society of Thoracic Surgeons names its next president

John H. Calhoon, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon in Texas, has been an STS member since 1992.

Carotid endarterectomy may be a safer treatment option than carotid artery stenting

Researchers reviewed 26 years of data, sharing their findings in the European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery.

Clinical

New AI model uses ECG images to evaluate heart failure risk

TAVR valve’s spontaneous leaflet rupture highlights importance of long-term follow-up

Cholesterol appears on man’s hands after he lived on diet of hamburgers, sticks of butter

Heart transplant patients on Medicaid face a higher risk of major complications

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's cause similar cognitive symptoms, but show opposing patterns on MRI