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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Heart-failure patients lose years of life when air pollution is a neighbor

Long-term daily exposure to air pollution carrying fine particulate matter poses a significant risk of all-cause mortality for people with heart failure (HF).

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LVAD recipients see heightened risk of suicide

Heart patients with implanted left ventricular assist devices are more likely to both attempt and succeed in committing suicide than other chronically ill patients, according to a study out of France.

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New Take on Transplant: Reconsidering Hepatitis C-infected Hearts for Donation

As many as 700 hearts from donors with hepatitis C are discarded each year in the U.S. New research suggests at least some of these organs may be suitable for transplant.

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Pop Goes the Pillbox: Will Polypharmacy Problems Limit the Adoption of SGLT2 Inhibitors?

Following data supporting their use for heart failure and type 2 diabetes, will sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors find a spot in the heart failure armamentarium?

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Canadian cardiologists perform world’s 1st minimally invasive tricuspid valve replacement

Physicians at St. Michael’s Hospital of Unity Health Toronto in Canada announced this month that they’d completed the world’s first minimally invasive tricuspid valve replacement with success.

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ACC issues COVID-19 guidance for cardiologists

Just days before the American College of Cardiology canceled its annual scientific sessions for the first time in the meeting’s 69-year history, it released a set of guidelines for cardiology care teams dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Hypertension ‘a key dangerous factor’ in COVID-19 mortality

Hypertensive patients may be at a greater risk of dying from COVID-19, the viral disease stemming from the world’s largest coronavirus outbreak to date, according to Bloomberg News.

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How one hospital is perfecting mechanical CPR in the ED

On a biweekly basis, researchers and physicians at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and North Shore University Hospital in New York gather to watch footage of patient resuscitations.