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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Blood flows differently through men’s, women’s hearts

Blood travels differently through women’s hearts than it does through men’s, research has found, suggesting cardiologists may benefit from tailoring their treatments to a specific sex.

Multimodality imaging uncovers ‘landmarks’ for peripheral arterial disease recovery

These new recovery milestones will allow clinicians to pinpoint whether or not a patient is responding to therapy or making the necessary strides toward rehabilitation.

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Irregular sleep doubles risk for CVD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital physicians have discovered that irregular sleep patterns can significantly hike a person’s risk for heart disease, even if they’re otherwise healthy.

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Opioid use disorder meds boost odds of recovery in endocarditis patients

Drugs used to treat opioid use disorder may also be successful in improving the health outcomes of patients admitted to the hospital for injection drug use-associated endocarditis, according to research out of Boston.

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New wearable measures CV vitals through 4 layers of clothing—or fur

Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a new type of sensor that can track vital signs in both humans and animals, suggesting the ever-growing wearables trend is expanding to include pets and livestock.

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Intensive BP control could afford patients up to 3 more years of life

An analysis of the 2015 SPRINT trial has found that, if participants continued taking their antihypertensive medications for the remainder of their lives, intensive blood pressure control could add between six months and three years to their lifespan.

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‘Potentially everything we’ve hoped for’: Pulsed field ablation used for 1st time in U.S.

Pulsed field ablation technology has been used to treat atrial fibrillation for the first time in the U.S.

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AI-powered wearable predicts HF rehospitalizations 10 days ahead of time

A wearable sensor developed by researchers at University of Utah Health and VA Salt Lake City Health Care System has the potential to predict heart failure complications more than a week before they occur.