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.   

Federal officers trying to track down scammers behind ‘massive’ counterfeit PPE stores

The duped purchasers include government agencies as well as hospitals and other medical facilities.  

Case study: Telemonitoring patients at home may reduce COVID hospitalizations, ER visits

Provider organizations mulling telehealth entry or expansion might look to the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group for inspiration as well as edification.

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High blood pressure associated with greater risk of atrial fibrillation

The new analysis, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, confirmed that atrial fibrillation can be prevented. 

Drinking coffee reduces the risk of heart failure—but not if it’s decaf

In fact, drinking decaffeinated coffee was associated with a significant increase in heart failure risk.

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A look at the future? Engineers propose a new design for mechanical heart valves

The team behind the new-look valves hope their design will limit blood clots and boost patient care. 

Cancer patients are missing out on safe, effective heart attack treatments

The study's authors reviewed data from more than 1.8 million patients, confirming that PCI is still safe and effective when a patient has cancer. 

Aggregated, analyzed web searches predict spikes, falloffs in COVID cases

Emulating finance’s use of satellite parking-lot imagery to guide investments in retail, researchers have tapped Google search patterns to helpfully predict ebbs and flows of COVID cases across the U.S.

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Can COVID-19 lead to bioprosthetic valve thrombosis? What specialists need to know

“To our knowledge, this is the first report of prosthetic aortic valve thrombosis associated with COVID-19 infection,” the authors wrote.