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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Lifetime risk of sudden cardiac death ‘significantly higher’ in blacks than whites

The lifetime cumulative risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) is much higher in black patients than in whites, according to an analysis of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study published in Circulation Feb. 4.

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Breathable insulin gains traction as diabetes management tool

Fast-acting, inhalable insulin is growing in popularity among American adults with diabetes, local Minnesota outlet Fox 9 reported Feb. 1.

TAVR, SAVR outcomes worse in patients with severe frailty

A patient’s degree of frailty could predict their functional outcomes in the year following transcatheter or surgical aortic valve repair (TAVR or SAVR), according to research out of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

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Postmarket mortality for Impella RP exceeds rate from earlier trials

Survival rates for patients treated with Abiomed’s Impella RP right ventricular assist device have been much lower in a postapproval study than they were during the device’s premarket clinical trials, the FDA said Feb. 4 in a letter to physicians.  

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Dime-sized innovation harnesses heart’s energy to power implantable devices

Researchers from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College have developed a dime-sized innovation they claim converts the heart’s energy into electricity to power implantable devices like pacemakers and defibrillators, potentially saving cardiovascular patients the time, money and stress of repeat surgery.

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E-cig use tied to 71% higher risk of stroke

E-cigarette users can now add stroke to the list of risks they incur when they make the choice to vape, according to a study of more than 400,000 Americans.

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Older patients at increased risk for AFib during dobutamine stress echo

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is rare during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE), a routine exam for assessing coronary ischemia, but elderly patients and those with a history of paroxysmal AF are at an increased risk for arrhythmia during the test, a team of researchers from Boulogne, France, reported.

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How trial results, guidelines affect the way physicians program CIEDs

A Journal of the American Heart Association study focused on the programming safety of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) suggests the publication of clinically meaningful trial results and professional recommendations translates poorly into real-world practice, penetrating just a fraction of a field that might benefit from added guidance.