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Lessons learnt from HF coding in primary care. What might best practice look like?

The British Journal of Cardiology

Heart failure (HF) is a prevalent and complex condition that demands precise and efficient management. This paper delves into a critical, yet often under-recognised, challenge in HF care – the accurate coding of patients on HF registers.

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Protocol‐Driven Best Practices and Cardiogenic Shock Survival in Asian Patients

Journal of the American Heart Association

Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. male, 67% acute myocardial infarction, 33% acute decompensated heart failure), 45 (41.3%), 33 (30.3%), and 31 (28.4%) were in SCAI Shock Stages C, D, and E, respectively. BackgroundCardiogenic shock carries high mortality.

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Integrating palliative care and heart failure: a systematic realist synthesis (PalliatHeartSynthesis)

Open Heart

Objectives (1) Develop a programme theory of why, for whom and in what contexts integrated palliative care (PC) and heart failure (HF) services work/do not work; (2) use the programme theory to co-produce with stakeholders, intervention strategies to inform best practice and future research.

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2025 STS/EACTS/LACES Latin America Cardiovascular Surgery Conference

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital

Add your name to the interest list to be notified when abstract submission and registration open.

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Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD, Named President of the Heart Valve Society

DAIC

Furthermore, I hope to leverage the Heart Valve Society as a great educational platform for cardiologists and surgeons, in order to advance best practices for patients worldwide,” says Dr. El-Hamamsy. The aortic valve controls blood flow from the heart into the aorta, the main artery that feeds blood to most of the body.

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New Dodero Center at UH will Revolutionize Limb Salvage

DAIC

The Doderos previously established the Lorraine and Bill Dodero Chair in Heart Failure & Transplantation at UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute and, over the past two decades, have made leadership gifts to support UH Seidman Cancer, the Phase II expansion of UH Ahuja Medical Center, and UHs COVID response.

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CV Societies Propel Plans Forward for a New Board of Cardiovascular Medicine

DAIC

The field of cardiovascular medicine has evolved dramatically over the past few decades; now is the right time to develop an independent cardiovascular Board.”