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AI Measures Fat Around the Heart, a Key to Predicting Heart Attacks

DAIC

Given this dismal outcome, the prognosis of CLTI is worse than most cancers.3,4 The global burden of peripheral artery disease. Decline in functional performance predicts later increased mobility loss and mortality in peripheral arterial disease. J Am Heart Assoc. J Vasc Surg. 2023;77:1119-26.

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Shockwave Medical Expands U.S. Peripheral IVL Portfolio with Enhanced Catheter

DAIC

The Shockwave E 8 catheter is designed to optimize the treatment of patients with calcified femoro-popliteal and below-the-knee peripheral artery disease (PAD), including patients with complex chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI). PAD affects more than eight million people aged 40 and older in the United States.

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

years of age, P <0.001), cerebral or peripheral artery disease (6.2% 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. years of age versus 59.0±8.4