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Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.
It’s been years since AI proponents started promising big returns on healthcare providers’ investments in the technology. The results have yet to catch up with the pitches. What’s the holdup?
SCAI celebrated cardiologists William W. O'Neill, MD, and Cindy L. Grines, MD, for the important roles they played in the development of primary PCI. “It was challenging,” Grines explained. “We had the pharmaceutical industry that was anti-primary angioplasty and we had a lot of our own colleagues that were anti-primary angioplasty."
Self-expanding and balloon-expandable TAVR valves are associated with comparable success rates and one-year outcomes when treating type 1 bicuspid aortic stenosis. However, each valve type comes with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Two years into the pandemic, healthcare organizations in the U.S. are dealing with major staffing shortages. Here are some of the top reasons why clinicians leave their jobs.
“If you were a patient of Dr. Verga’s, your heart was in brilliant hands,” according to one loving tribute. The 45-year-old cardiologist had been missing since March 20.
An international analysis published in Circulation and a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association both explore the latest data on heart complications associated with COVID-19.
Adam Greenbaum, MD, co-director of the Structural Heart and Valve Center at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta, explains details from the late-breaking CLASP TR trial at ACC.22.