Open Heart

MARCH 24, 2022

Objective To appraise the application of the 2018 European Society of Cardiology-adapted modified WHO (mWHO) classification to pregnant women with heart disease managed at our maternal–fetal medicine referral centre and to assess whether the lack of a multidisciplinary Pregnancy Heart team has influenced their outcomes. Methods A retrospective cohort study including all pregnancies with heart disease managed at our centre between June 2011 and December 2020.

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Heart Disease Outcomes 52

iRythm Technologies

MARCH 24, 2022

How to provide remote cardiac monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article offers guidance for implementing telehealth.

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COVID-19 Article 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

Written by Pendell Meyers Interpret this ECG first without context. You don't need context yet because this ECG is nearly pathognomonic. After having learned about benign T wave inversion pattern years ago on this blog, and having seen many cases on this blog and in my practice since then, I instantly recognize this as BTWI, a fairly common normal variant.

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Blog Ischemia Chest Pain Arrhythmia 52

Open Heart

MARCH 21, 2022

Background Advances in CT and machine learning have enabled on-site non-invasive assessment of fractional flow reserve (FFR CT ). Purpose To assess the interoperator and intraoperator variability of coronary CT angiography-derived FFR CT using a machine learning-based postprocessing prototype. Materials and methods We included 60 symptomatic patients who underwent coronary CT angiography.

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Plaque Physiology Risk Factors Stenosis 40