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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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Medication for blood loss during childbirth shows benefit in stroke patients

Patients with stroke-related intracerebral hemorrhage (TICH-2) may benefit from receiving tranexamic acid (TXA), a drug treatment used to treat blood loss from trauma and bleeding after child birth, according to research presented May 16 at the European Stroke Conference in Sweden.

Beta-blockers equally effective for blacks, whites with HFrEF

A study published May 8 in the Journal of the American Heart Association suggests black and white patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) derive similar benefit from beta-blockers, despite conflicting previous reports.

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AI can ID small vessel disease with 85% accuracy

Researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh have developed machine learning software that detects small vessel disease (SVD)—which can ultimately cause stroke.

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Acetaminophen may protect against acute kidney injury after pediatric heart surgery

Acetaminophen after pediatric heart surgery was associated with an increasingly protective effect against acute kidney injury (AKI), according to an analysis of separate cohorts at two children’s hospitals.

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Excessive patient deaths spur investigation into Houston heart transplant center

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston continues to tout itself as one of the top heart transplant centers in the country, even as quality measures lag well behind national averages.

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‘Moving the goalposts’? ISCHEMIA investigators defend endpoint change

The investigators of the anticipated ISCHEMIA trial have published a paper in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes defending their late addition of “softer” outcomes to their primary composite endpoint.

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Paroxysmal AFib burden linked to higher stroke risk

Even for patients with intermittent atrial fibrillation (AFib), the amount of time spent in an arrhythmic state is strongly associated with an increased risk of stroke, researchers reported in JAMA Cardiology.

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His bundle pacing trumps right ventricular approach in single-center study

A His bundle pacing (HBP) strategy was associated with a significant reduction in hospitalizations for heart failure when compared to pacemaker implantation via the right ventricle, according to a study published online May 14 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.