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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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Survey finds widespread variation in imaging modalities used to assess COVID-19 across the globe

CXR, mobile x-ray, and chest CT are the most commonly deployed systems, experts reported in European Radiology

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Telmisartan fails to limit growth of abdominal aortic aneurysms

This is believed to be the first randomized clinical trial focused on treating AAAs with an angiotensin receptor blocker.

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Smoking associated with fatal bleeding in the brain

The study, published in Stroke, focused on data from more than 16,000 pairs of twins born from 1958 to 1974.

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When Fear Goes Viral - What to Say to a Frightened Patient

SCAI’s president explains the key points she shares when reassuring patients who are reluctant to present for care.

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Transporting cardiac arrest patients to the hospital too early could be a fatal mistake

Survival to hospital discharge and favorable neurological outcomes suffer in instances of intra-arrest patient transport. 

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Patient outcomes stay the same when heart transplants are from severely obese donors

No significant differences were detected when it came to post-transplant outcomes, one-year survival or long-term mortality. 

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Abdominal radiology must stay vigilant as almost 20% of COVID cases report with only GI symptoms

Providers are increasingly seeing only these indicators among patients, including loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain.

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Not so fast: Specialists warn against cardiac imaging for asymptomatic COVID-19 patients

The open letter, signed by clinicians from a number of specialties, was addressed to medical societies that specialize in heart health and medical imaging.