CardiacWire

APRIL 24, 2024

In order to reduce MI overdiagnosis , the authors suggest… Enacting laws limiting malpractice payments (and limiting defensive medicine) Limiting troponin testing to higher-probability patients Considering new age-specific troponin thresholds Adopting new AI-based MI detection solutions Developing new biomarkers for MI detection Using cardiac imaging (..)

Myocardial Infarction 59

Myocardial Infarction Chest Pain Biomarkers Ischemia 59

Dr. Anish Koka

MAY 16, 2023

There may be no better study to symbolize the dysfunction that has invaded cardiology than the VIRGO trial, a study examining the outcomes of young patients (18-55) presenting to the hospital with a heart attack. More cardiac injury means more dead heart muscle, and a larger scar. for epicardial coronary disease, and 1.1 - 11.1

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Chest Pain Coronary Artery Disease Cancer Heart Attack 52

DAIC

APRIL 9, 2024

Although they had no symptoms of heart failure or blockages in arteries carrying blood to the heart, they all had structural heart disease or abnormal cardiac biomarkers that classified them as having “pre-heart failure,” putting them at high risk for developing overt symptoms of the diagnosis.

Heart Failure 52

Heart Failure Diabetes Cardiomyopathy Exercise 52

Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A therapy that has been proven repeatedly to reduce the probability of heart attacks and strokes in multiple double-blind randomised controlled studies 1. Additionally, access to cholesterol synthesis biomarker testing, including desmosterol and lathosterol levels, can be challenging to obtain. My approach for APOE 4 patients.

Dementia 52

Dementia Cholesterol Biomarkers Circulation 52

DAIC

MARCH 7, 2024

Patients treated with CardiAMP cell therapy saw an almost 5% lower rate of heart death equivalents at up to two years compared to control patients treated with heart failure medication alone (8.3% vs. 13.2%, respectively).

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Heart Failure Biomarkers CMS Reimbursement 105

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

AUGUST 9, 2024

He reported a history of “Wolf-Parkinson-White” and “heart attack” but said neither had been treated. Frick -- one wonders about the diagnosis of unstable angina in a patient with significantly elevated biomarkers which would certainly have been rising on repeat measurement.)

Chest Pain 85

Chest Pain Arrhythmia Myocardial Infarction STEMI 85

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 2, 2009

male presents because he "thought he might be having a heart attack." First, this patient had a known stent in the "marginal" artery and thought he was having a heart attack. Case 2 A 38 year old male with h/o smoking only c/o a few hours of severe substernal chest pain; he thinks he is having a heart attack.

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DAIC

JANUARY 30, 2024

Clinicians currently use two separate risk models to assess patients’ chances of having heart attacks , strokes , and other major cardiovascular events. The ARIC participants included some cases with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and some without.

Cardiovascular Disease 52

Cardiovascular Disease Research Heart Attack Heart attacks 52

Dr. Anish Koka

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Cardiac Cath labs waiting for some major influx of COVID heart damage not only didn’t see patients presenting with COVID heart attacks, but they idled as patients terrified of coming to the hospital stayed home rather than come to the hospital with chest pain.

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COVID-19 Chest Pain Academic Hospital 52

Physiologically Speaking

APRIL 24, 2024

In a cohort of >3,000 people from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), sleeping <6 hours each night predicted a higher prevalence of stroke, heart attack, and chronic heart failure. 19 20 Mortality from CVD and coronary heart disease is also increased in women with short sleep, but not men.

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Blood Pressure Blood Clot COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease 52