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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What new research tells us about stroke mortality among men and women

Prior to popular belief, sex may not necessarily be an independent risk factor for stroke mortality, according to the analysis. 

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No reason to quit: TAVR patients can continue anticoagulation therapy throughout procedure

Patients are typically told to put anticoagulation therapy on hold two to four days before they undergo TAVR. This study’s authors aimed to see if this was truly necessary.  

COVID-19 hospitalizing more children, raising new worries about resources

The national average increase over the study period was 760%—from 2.0 pediatric hospitalizations per 100,000 persons in May to 17.2 in November.

When hospitalized COVID-19 patients head home, the cardiovascular challenges continue

The research included data from more than 47,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. 

Frontline healthcare workers maintaining mental resilience during COVID crisis

Researchers have found nonmedical working professionals bearing significantly more depression and anxiety these days than doctors and nurses working with or near COVID-19 patients.

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Empagliflozin provides additional benefits to patients with type 2 diabetes and CAD

The authors found a link between six months of empagliflozin and a reduction in extracellular volume, sharing their findings in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.

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Why STEMI patients undergoing PCI should be tested for subclinical hypothyroidism

For patients undergoing PCI, subclinical hypothyroidism was associated with higher short-term and long-term mortality.

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How to predict heart failure among patients with diabetes, prediabetes

Researchers were able to predict, with considerable accuracy, each patient's 5- and 10-year risk of heart failure.