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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 TAVR research explores adverse outcomes, disease progression in patients with asymptomatic severe AS
Two separate studies at ACC.25 explored data from the EARLY TAVR trial. One analysis included stroke findings that surprised researchers.
Dapagliflozin improves outcomes for elderly TAVR patients with heart failure
The positive data were presented as part of a late-breaking clinical trial at ACC.25 in Chicago. One cardiologist on stage for the presentation said these findings will impact the way he manages certain TAVR patients.
American Heart Association program leads to substantial improvements in stroke care
Cardiologist Gregg Fonarow, MD, reviewed decades of data and discussed the long-term impact of the AHA's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program.
Bringing state-of-the-art healthcare to Florida heart patients
Naples Comprehensive Health is building up what it hopes will be a nationally recognized cardiology program. Robert Cubeddu, MD, and Dee Dee Wang, MD, spoke with Cardiovascular Business about the journey so far.
Society of Interventional Radiology seeks to bolster research funding for the specialty
During their annual meeting being held this week in Nashville, the society announced the launch of the SIR Foundation Endowment.

Additional research is still needed, but researchers may have uncovered a new treatment for heart failure.

The CDC recommends an aggressive COVID-19 vaccination strategy to lower the prevalence of hospitalizations and fatalities.

Some newer vaping devices were found to be especially harmful.

While the improved access is clearly beneficial, researchers did uncover potential issues that will need to be addressed.

A full launch of the new system is scheduled for early 2022.

More than 1.2 billion adults around the world are currently living with hypertension.

The new analysis, which included data from more than 24,000 adult patients, was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Anxiety related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is still causing many adults to delay care for themselves or their children, researchers have found.