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Paradigm-challenging heart failure treatment strategy hopeful in early trial
A proposed nerve-ablation technique that questions dogma in heart failure management yielded promising short-term results in a small observational...
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Voice-analysis app promising as early warning system for heart failure decompensation
It could potentially help guide heart failure therapy to avert acute decompensations, researchers say. “But of course, we have to show that now in...
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Porcine virus a suspect in man’s death after pig heart transplant
That PCMV escaped detection before the operation “could now factor into some people’s questions over whether the experiment should have taken...
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Cutting dementia risk in AFib: Does rhythm control strategy matter?
The way sinus rhythm is restored in patients with atrial fibrillation might make a difference to risk for later dementia.
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DIAMOND: Adding patiromer helps optimize HF meds, foils hyperkalemia
Hyperkalemia is no reason for suboptimal guideline-directed heart failure medical therapy, given availability of at least one potassium-binding...
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New HF guidelines feature ‘quad’ therapy, tweaked terminology
They include new generalist-friendly labels for the traditional but obscurely named four stages of HF that, it is hoped, will have wider reach and...
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VALOR-HCM: Novel drug may delay, avert invasive therapy in OHCM
Mavacamten looks promising as a medical alternative to highly invasive septal reduction therapy for patients with obstructive hypertrophic...
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Calcium scores predict sudden-death risk in preclinical CAD
The findings strengthen the case for initial CAC imaging as a gatekeeper to further testing in some primary-prevention patients, researchers say...
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Hybrid ACC 2022 resurrects the live scientific session
The ACC offers a traditional in-person meeting spanning all of cardiology paired with what could be a lasting legacy of the pandemic, a robust,...
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Death of pig heart transplant patient is more a beginning than an end
The landmark case will have much to teach; still, it “turns back the clock” to a time when immunosuppression was especially intense “because we...
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DISCHARGE: CTA shows safety edge versus cath in intermediate-risk stable chest pain
CTA ‘is a safe alternative to cardiac catheterization for patients with suspected CAD,’ new research suggests.
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How Lp(a) can help improve ASCVD risk assessment
Calcium scores and lipoprotein(a) levels predict 10-year risk independent of each other, and together could swing shared decision-making about...
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FDA okays empagliflozin for HF regardless of ejection fraction
The expanded indication for the SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin (Jardiance) now includes heart failure with mid-range or preserved left ventricular...
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USPSTF tweaks primary prevention statin recommendations in new draft guidance
The task force concluded “with moderate certainty” that a statin prescription will clinically benefit adults 40-75 years without CVD but with at...