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Ezetimibe Plus Statins Equals Better Outcomes

CardiacWire

Digging through decades of data from PubMed, Embase, and ClinicalTrials.gov, researchers pooled all relevant articles published through June 2024 (108k patients) and found that a combination lipid-lowering therapy (LLT) of statins plus ezetimibe led to significantly better CV outcomes compared to statin monotherapy.

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Innovative Imaging Technology Leads Top Trends of 2023

Cassling

We continue to be amazed by the imaging teams around the country who commit so much of themselves to improving patient outcomes. As we reviewed our most popular publications of 2023, it became clear that many of you continue to rethink the limits of your profession.

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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized patients with intracranial hemorrhage after percutaneous coronary intervention

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

This study aims to provide information on the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized patients with ICH after PCI.Materials and methodsThis retrospective study included 24 patients enrolled from February 2014 to September 2023, which occurred ICH during post-PCI hospitalization. years, and 66.7% (n=16) were men.

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Organ perfusion pressure predicts outcomes in cardiogenic shock patients

European Journal of Heart Failure

Organ perfusion pressure as a predictor of outcomes in cardiogenic shock: insights from the Altshock-2 registry. This study evaluated organ perfusion pressure (OPP), calculated as mean arterial pressure minus invasive central venous pressure, as a predictor of outcomes in CS. The primary outcome was in-hospital all-cause mortality.

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Prognostic implications of stress test-induced arrhythmias: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Open Heart

Methods Relevant studies examining arrhythmia in both exercise and pharmacological stress testing were searched for in PubMed, Embase and Cochrane databases from inception to 14 June 2023. The primary outcomes of interest were mortality in ventricular and atrial arrhythmias, and later diagnosis of cardiac disease in atrial arrhythmias.

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Health, burnout and well-being of UK cardiology trainees: insights from the British Junior Cardiologists Association Survey

Heart BMJ

Methods The 2023 British Junior Cardiologists’ Association training survey included questions on ill health, burnout, healthy living and invited responders to complete screening questionnaires for depression (Patient Health Questionnaire 9; PHQ-9) and anxiety (Generalised Anxiety Disorder 7; GAD-7). Burnout was a self-reported outcome.

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Surgical and transcatheter aortic valve interventions for aortic stenosis in England: sociodemographic variations in treatment trends and outcome over 20 years

Heart BMJ

Methods National linked data sets identified all surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) for AS, and post-intervention cardiovascular mortality, between 2000 and 2023. Results Of 179 645 procedures, there were 139 990 SAVR (mean age 71±10.8 years, 64% male, 96.0% years, 57% male, 95.7%