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

Cardiologists are first in world to use new cooling device to terminate AFib during surgery
Patients often develop AFib during cardiac surgery, leading to longer hospital stays, additional healthcare costs and a higher risk of mortality. Cooling the oblique sinus of the patient's heart as soon as AFib starts to develop may represent a new way to stop the problem in its tracks.
CCTA shows colchicine's impact on atherosclerosis progression
Matthew Budoff, MD, detailed new data highlighting CCTA's value when it comes to tracking the progression of coronary atherosclerosis.
Rates of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes keep climbing in US
As time goes on, the gaps between the healthiest states and the least healthy states are only getting wider and wider. "Our findings highlight the urgent need for targeted strategies to reduce state-based inequities in cardiometabolic risk factors,” researchers wrote.
Experts identify MRI biomarkers that could signal the early onset of Parkinson's
Using one of the most powerful MRI scanners to date, researchers believe they have identified subtle neural changes in the brain that precede Parkinson’s disease.
High Lp(a) levels increase risk of repeat cardiovascular events—LDL drugs may help
Researchers evaluated data from more than 273,000 patients with a history of ASCVD, noting that higher Lp(a) levels are consistently linked to worse cardiovascular outcomes.

One-year outcomes are similar when patients undergo PCI prior to TAVR—except for one important difference.

Researchers examined data from nearly 470,000 patients.

The new study, published in Stroke, included data related to aspiration and stent retriever thrombectomy.

One large health system actually treated more heart failure patients during the pandemic than it had in previous years.

Heart failure cases are expected to keep growing in the years ahead.

Considering the study's high-risk patient population, researchers were especially impressed by these one-year outcomes.

Imaging data gathered when patients are first hospitalized can be used to anticipate how their hearts might recover in the weeks and months ahead.

Researchers looked at this question closely, performing a study of their own in addition to a meta-analysis.