Cardiology Update

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The NOTION trial, a pioneering study, sought to compare the long-term clinical and bioprosthesis outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR) in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis (AS) at lower surgical risk. The study, spanning a decade, enrolled 280 patients, randomly assigned to either TAVI with the CoreValve bioprosthesis or SAVR.

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CardiacWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The associations between obesity and hypertension are widely known, but a new JACC study reveals that weight-reducing gastric bypass surgery has a significant and lasting impact on patients’ need for antihypertensives. The GATEWAY trial assigned 100 participants (76% women, 43.8 avg. age, 36.9 BMI) to receive Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and medical therapy or only receive medical therapy, finding that after five years… Far more gastric bypass patients cut their BP medication use by at least 30% (80

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Heart failure (HF) is increasing at an alarming rate, primary due to the rising in aging, obesity and diabetes. Notably, individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D) face a significantly elevated risk of HF, leading.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Melanie Lewis, RN, writes about how listening to patients, conducting nerve conduction studies, and referring to specialists are key actions to provide effective care in patients dealing with chronic pain.

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Heart Sisters

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

"The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning" suggests that if we don't sort out our possessions now, we're condemning our families to do the job for us later.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This retrospective cohort study suggests the potential benefits of greater use of screening, though additional research on these predictive factors may be necessary as well.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Introduction Investigating coronary microvascular perfusion responses after myocardial infarction (MI) would aid in the development of flow preserving therapies. Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is a powerful tool used for real-time, non-contact, full-field imaging of blood flow in various tissues/organs. However, its use in the beating heart has been limited due to motion artifacts.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are monoclonal antibodies that block immune checkpoints and therefore activate immune cells, allowing them to recognize and attack cancer cells. ICIs have revolutionized oncology practice, but their use has been complicated by immune-related adverse events (irAEs). Of cardiovascular (CV) irAEs, ICI-related myocarditis has received significant attention due to high mortality rates, ranging from 25% to 50%, despite its overall low incidence.

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Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- PHOENIX -- For chronic or subacute subdural hematoma, embolization of the middle meningeal artery (MMA) reduced recurrence, three randomized trials showed. Two trials with the Onyx liquid embolic system and one with the Squid.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Purpose This study aims to evaluate deep learning (DL) denoising reconstructions for image quality improvement of Doppler ultrasound (DUS)-gated fetal cardiac MRI in congenital heart disease (CHD). Methods Twenty-five fetuses with CHD (mean gestational age: 35 ± 1 weeks) underwent fetal cardiac MRI at 3T. Cine imaging was acquired using a balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) sequence with Doppler ultrasound gating.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This was a patient with chest pain. The ECG was faxed to a cardiologist. But it was very difficult for him to see. He showed this to me the next day.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Background The mechanisms of AF development and progression are still not completely understood. Despite the relative efficacy of ablation, the risk of AF recurrence is substantial, particularly in patients with persistent AF (perAF). At present we do not have any reliable intra-procedural electrophysiologic predictors of long-term success of AF ablation other than pulmonary vein isolation.

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

LncRNA ATP2B1-AS1 (ATP2B1-AS1) is involved in the occurrence and development of various diseases, while the relationship between lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and ATP2B1-AS1 is unclear. This study was to investig.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is a condition defined by accumulation of insoluble transthyretin amyloid deposits in multiple organs, especially in the peripheral nerve and heart muscle. ATTR may result from transthyretin mutations (variant ATTR or ATTRv) or may occur with normal transthyretin genotype (wild type ATTR or ATTRwt). ATTRwt was previously known as “senile amyloidosis” and causes cardiomyopathy which may lead to heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction, affecting predominan

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The triglyceride glucose (TyG) index is a new and low-cost marker to determine insulin resistant which may be a predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although available evidence showed that its associatio.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Background Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a severe and rare disease in the cardiopulmonary system. Its pathogenesis involves vascular remodeling of the pulmonary artery, which results in progressive increases in pulmonary arterial pressure. Chronically increased pulmonary arterial pressure causes right ventricular hypertrophy and subsequent right heart failure.

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is traditionally used to treat postoperative wound infections. However, its use in closed wound sternotomy post cardiac surgery in high-risk patients has become increasin.

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Circulation

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Circulation, Volume 149, Issue 7 , Page 489-491, February 13, 2024.

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

To investigate the relationship between p wave terminal force (Ptfv1) and pericardial thickness in patients with tuberculous constrictive pericarditis.

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Circulation

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Circulation, Volume 149, Issue 7 , Page 492-497, February 13, 2024.

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Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Myocardial fibrosis, a common complication of myocardial infarction (MI), is characterized by excessive collagen deposition and can result in impaired cardiac function. The specific role of CD137 in the development of post-MI myocardial fibrosis remains unclear. Thus, this study aimed to elucidate the effects of CD137 signaling using CD137 knockout mice and in vitro experiments.

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Circulation

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Circulation, Volume 149, Issue 7 , Page e330-e346, February 13, 2024. Adverse pregnancy outcomes are common among pregnant individuals and are associated with long-term risk of cardiovascular disease. Individuals with adverse pregnancy outcomes also have an increased incidence of cardiovascular disease risk factors after delivery. Despite this, evidence-based approaches to managing these patients after pregnancy to reduce cardiovascular disease risk are lacking.

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HeartRhythm

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Machine learning (ML) models have been proposed to predict risk related to transvenous lead extraction (TLE).

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Circulation

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Circulation, Volume 149, Issue 7 , Page 542-544, February 13, 2024.

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Circulation

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Circulation, Volume 149, Issue 7 , Page 487-488, February 13, 2024.

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