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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.   

Primary care’s plea: ‘Wake up to the fact that [we] are key to getting us [all] out of this prolonged pandemic’

A reversal in COVID telehealth reimbursement could further demoralize a medical specialty that has arguably carried more than its own weight during the public health crisis.

Task force: Aspirin not recommended to prevent first MI or stroke

Starting a daily aspirin regimen in people age 60 or older can cause potentially serious harm including internal bleeding, the USPSTF warned Tuesday.

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Women less likely to have valve replacement for infective endocarditis

“The salient finding is that female sex was associated with a decreased likelihood of undergoing overall cardiac valve replacement,” the researchers wrote.

Real-world TAVR outcomes highlight the accuracy of clinical trials

Clinical trial results don't always apply to real-world patient populations.

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Drug-eluting stents improve survival for patients undergoing LAD or left main artery revascularization

The analysis also focused on outcomes related to heart attacks, definite stent thrombosis and more. 

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Smoking prior to revascularization for intermittent claudication raises risk of complications

Smoking cessation should be stressed before patients undergo revascularization for intermittent claudication, researchers observed.

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Poor oral health may make COVID-19 more harmful among cardiovascular patients

The group's findings will be presented in full at ACC Middle East 2021 in Egypt.