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 cardiologyheart failure, electrophysiologyhypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

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Vaping damages blood vessels at a rate similar to cigarettes

Some newer vaping devices were found to be especially harmful. 

COVID lockdown reopening

Number of TAVR sites has nearly tripled in recent years—but quality issues remain

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

New self-expanding TAVR system gains FDA approval

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

Hypertension cases skyrocket around the globe

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

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LVAD therapy benefits older heart failure patients—but remains underutilized

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

COVID-19 coronavirus burnout depression pandemic

COVID-19 anxiety still very much alive, causing patients to stay home

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

A new look at vitamin D supplements and heart attack risk

Yes, researchers confirmed, providing supplements to patients with a vitamin D deficiency can improve their risk of death—and even their risk of a heart attack. 

Stroke more common among Black COVID-19 patients

Considering the prolonged nature of this ongoing pandemic, the authors wrote, it is especially crucial that we learn as much about its impact on stroke risk as possible.