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.   

New technique for heart bypass surgery could limit patient discomfort, lower costs

The updated approach relies solely on CT imaging data and does not require a catheter

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Standing up for your health: Research links sedentary behavior with heart failure risk among older women

“Our message is simple: sit less and move more,” one researcher said. 

COVID crisis in Nebraska: ‘We’re watching a system breaking in front of us and we’re helpless to stop it’

The hospital many consider the best prepared in the U.S. to handle a pandemic prior to the COVID crisis now finds itself “on an absolutely catastrophic path.”

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New technique could reduce heart attack-induced heart failure

“The clinical implications of this discovery are significant,” one researcher said. 

CDC floats guidance on COVID vaccine distribution

If you’re on the front lines in the war on COVID-19, you should go to the front of the line for a COVID vaccination, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is recommending.

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Aortic stenosis patients with AFib may experience more complications after valve replacement

The analysis, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, included data from more than 741,000 adult patients with aortic stenosis. 

‘We have never seen anything like this’: Risk of death 74% higher when COVID-19 patients develop blood clots

Blood clots are unusually common—and quite fatal—among patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

Revered cardiologist dies from COVID-19

A moment of silence has been planned to celebrate the late cardiologist's memory.