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Cardiovascular outcomes in long COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Systematic search conducted without language restrictions from December 1, 2019 to June 31, 2022 on PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane library, ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database, COVID-19 Living Overview of the Evidence (L-OVE) subset of Episteminokos and the World Health Organization (WHO) Covid-19 databases.

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Surgeon Preference Impacts Survival Outcomes Analyses for CABG Patients

DAIC

Medicare beneficiaries who underwent CABG from 2001 to 2019. the data and outcomes from the STS Database specialty registries provide true national benchmarks for clinical outcomes of cardiothoracic surgery. A study presented at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 61st Annual Meeting explores findings in more than a million U.S.

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Predicting cardiac arrhythmia 30 minutes before it happens

Science Daily - Heart Disease

Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia worldwide with around 59 million people concerned in 2019. These results pave the way for integration into wearable technologies, allowing early interventions and better patient outcomes. It gives early warnings on average 30 minutes before onset, with an accuracy of around 80%.

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Why Mechanical AVR Valves Still Matter

CardiacWire

Researchers examined STS registry data on ~109k patients ages 40 to 75 years who received isolated bioprosthetic (94k) or mechanical (15k) AVR over 11 years and found that mechanical valve use decreased by about half (from 20% in 2008 to below 10% in 2019).

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Does Value Based Care Improve Cardiology?

CardiacWire

Evaluating the ACO incentives , researchers compared care quality data from the ACCs NCDR PINNACLE Registry before and 6-12 months after MSSP participation at 83 ACO outpatient cardiology practices versus 332 non-ACO practices and found MSSP ACO participation made no difference in coronary artery disease, HF, AFib, or hypertension outcomes.

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Predictors of permanent pacemaker requirement in aortic stenosis patients undergoing self-expanding valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement using the cusp overlap technique

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

This study aims to identify risk factors for conduction disturbances in such patients using a specific fluoroscopic cusp overlap (COL) technique.MethodsThis retrospective study analyzed AS patients who underwent TAVR with SEV from 2019 to 2022, excluding those needing pacemakers or valve-in-valve procedures.

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Findings from MOST Trial Presented at ISC24: Blood thinners added to clot-busting medication did not improve stroke outcomes

DAIC

The results showed that giving blood thinners in addition to clot-busting medications to people with ischemic strokes (clot-caused strokes) did not improve their outcomes 90 days later. The study was looking for improvement in functional outcomes at 90 days. those receiving argatroban averaged 5.2,

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