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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.   

Metoprolol demonstrates value as a treatment for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

The small study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, compared patient outcomes associated with metoprolol and a placebo. 

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AI improves detection of severe CAD in stress echocardiograms

Advanced algorithms can lead to significant improvements in agreement among specialists, researchers found. 

CDC now recommends Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines over Johnson & Johnson’s due to risk of fatal blood clots

Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine has been associated with an elevated risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome.

Cardiologist interviewed by Joe Rogan claims U.S. withheld early COVID-19 treatments to promote fear, push support for vaccines

Peter A. McCullough, MD, has been no stranger to controversy during the ongoing pandemic. 

Decades of data help researchers recommend the optimal HFrEF treatment

The new analysis, published in JACC: Heart Failure, included data from 75 different studies.

Heart transplants from adult donors after circulatory death yield positive outcomes

Researchers examined heart transplant outcomes associated with donation after circulatory death donors and donation after brain death donors.

What happens when TAVR patients also require a peripheral vascular intervention

It does increase certain risks, researchers found—but it can also be a valuable treatment option. 

FDA announces Class I recall of intra-aortic balloon pumps after 1 death, 71 complaints

The recall includes more than 4,000 devices distributed over the last several years.