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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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.

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Marijuana use lowers blood pressure for older adults with hypertension

There was a significant reduction in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. 

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Vegan diet associated with more weight loss, better cholesterol control than Mediterranean diet

The Mediterranean diet, meanwhile, was associated with a more significant drop in systolic and diastolic blood pressure.  

‘A very lethal combination’: COVID-19 patients much more likely to die from sudden cardiac arrest

Sudden cardiac arrest, both in and outside of the hospital, is much more fatal for patients who already have COVID-19. 

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Here’s how radiologists should manage COVID-19 vaccine side effects spotted on breast MRI exams

Doctors have increasingly been seeing breast exams with swollen lymph nodes imitating cancer in patients who have received a vaccine, prompting Penn Medicine providers to offer up guidance.