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Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in post-COVID-19 syndrome: a major health-care burden

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 02 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-023-00962-3 Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction (CVAD) is a malfunction of the autonomic control of circulatory homeostasis and is an important component of post-COVID-19 syndrome. In this Review, Fedorowski and colleagues define the major forms of CVAD (including postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), and discuss the aetiology, diagnosis and management of post-COVID-19 syndrome-associated CVAD.

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How Cardiac Arrest Became a Household Topic After Damar Hamlin's Collapse

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- In January, we reported on Damar Hamlin's collapse during a televised football game. In this report, we follow up on the resulting public interest on sudden cardiac arrest that made Hamlin the most searched person of 2023. During.

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Researchers identify circulating proteins linked to preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Preeclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy—which are characterized by high blood pressure with or without organ dysfunction during the second half of pregnancy—carry considerable short- and long-term risks for both the mother and child. Treatment options (other than expedited delivery) remain limited.

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Amal Mattu’s ECG Case of the Week – January 1, 2024

ECG Weekly Workout

HPI: A 50-year-old man decides to get “his life in order” for the new year. He quits smoking, decides to eat healthier and exercise more, and to be more compliant with his blood pressure medications. A week into the new year he wakes up feeling weak and achy with nausea and vomiting. He is lightheaded when sitting or standing and has trouble getting out of bed.

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Atherosclerotic plaque stabilization and regression: a review of clinical evidence

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 04 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-023-00979-8 In this Review, Sarraju and Nissen summarize the clinical trial evidence for coronary atherosclerotic plaque stabilization and regression with plasma LDL-cholesterol-lowering therapy and other treatments. Invasive and non-invasive imaging modalities used to assess plaque burden and composition are discussed.

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Maternal Type 1 Diabetes an Outsized Red Flag for Child Heart Defect Risk

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- Maternal type 1 diabetes (T1D) emerged as the larger contributor to the child's risk of congenital heart defect (CHD) when considering maternal diabetes and weight status together, a Finnish population-based cohort study found.

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Henry Ford Health Cardiologists Publish Case Series Study on Heart Valve Procedure

DAIC

Study investigators Drs. Pedro Engel-Gonzalez and Gennaro Giustino from Henry Ford Health. Image courtesy of Hentry Ford Health milla1cf Thu, 01/04/2024 - 10:55 January 4, 2024 — Findings from a published case series research letter by the Henry Ford Health Structural Heart Disease team show that severe mitral stenosis, due to a build-up of calcium deposits in the mitral valve common in elderly patients, can be safely and successfully treated using Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL)-enabled percuta

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RNA-binding proteins in cardiovascular biology and disease: the beat goes on

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 02 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-023-00958-z In this Review, the authors discuss the latest insights on RNA-binding proteins and RNA biology and appraise them in the context of cardiovascular research, summarizing the progress in our understanding of the involvement of RNA-binding proteins in cardiac biology and disease.

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Midlife Cognitive Problems Tied to Sleep Disruptions Earlier in Life

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- People who had fragmented sleep in their 30s and 40s were more likely to have worse cognition a decade later, longitudinal data showed. Those in the highest versus the lowest tertile of the sleep fragmentation index had over.

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Physiology Friday #199: High-Intensity Interval Training Reduces Coronary Artery Plaque

Physiologically Speaking

Greetings! Welcome to the Physiology Friday newsletter. This newsletter is brought to you by Examine.com — the best place on the internet for health and nutrition information — and my new eBook, “VO2 Max Essentials.” Details can be found at the end of the post! Physiologically Speaking is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Thrombotic microangiopathy following systemic AAV administration is dependent on anti-capsid antibodies

Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

BACKGROUND Systemic administration of adeno-associated virus (AAV) can trigger life-threatening inflammatory responses, including thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA), acute kidney injury due to atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome–like complement activation, immune-mediated myocardial inflammation, and hepatic toxicity.METHODS We describe the kinetics of immune activation following systemic AAV serotype 9 (AAV9) administration in 38 individuals following 2 distinct prophylactic immunomodulation regim

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Cardiologists publish case series study on heart valve procedure

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Findings from a published case series research letter by the Henry Ford Health Structural Heart Disease team show that severe mitral stenosis, due to a build-up of calcium deposits in the mitral valve common in elderly patients, can be safely and successfully treated using Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL)-enabled percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty.

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Mortality Reaches 20% for Hospitalized Patients With High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- Mortality rates were high among patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE), with the worst outcomes in those with hemodynamic collapse, according to a retrospective analysis of the Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT.

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Study Examines Factors Impacting Health-Related Quality of Life in Male Patients with Gout

HCPLive

Various factors related to demographics, psychosocial behavior variables, and clinical characteristics were linked to health-related quality of life in patients with gout.

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CDKL5 regulates p62-mediated selective autophagy and confers protection against neurotropic viruses

Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

Virophagy, the selective autophagosomal engulfment and lysosomal degradation of viral components, is crucial for neuronal cell survival and antiviral immunity. However, the mechanisms leading to viral antigen recognition and capture by autophagic machinery remain poorly understood. Here, we identified cyclin-dependent kinase–like 5 (CDKL5), known to function in neurodevelopment, as an essential regulator of virophagy.

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Top Cardiology Conferences in 2024

Cardiology Update

As we step into 2024, the field of cardiology continues to offer exciting opportunities for knowledge exchange and networking at in-person conferences. Here is a preview of the upcoming cardiology conferences planned for 2024. 1. ESC Acute CardioVascular Care (ACVC) Date: March 8-10, 2024 Location: Athens, Greece Overview: ACVC offers the latest science, networking, and simulation workshops for managing acute and critical cardiovascular conditions.

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Here Are the Top Diets for 2024

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- It's the season for resolutions -- and the annual "Best Diets" rankings from U.S. News & World Report. For 2024, the Mediterranean diet once again took the top spot for best overall diet. With its emphasis on intake of.

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FDA Accepts Biologics License Application for Ustekinumab Biosimilar DMB-3115

HCPLive

BLA submission was based on data from phase 3 clinical trials in which DMB-3115 showed no clinically meaningful differences compared with the reference product for the treatment of plaque psoriasis.

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This two-step screening process could reduce diabetic heart failure

Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found a two-step screening protocol combining clinical risk assessment with biomarker testing that can identify which patients with Type 2 diabetes need medication to prevent heart failure.

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2023 in Review: A Look at the Year's Top 10 Topics

DAIC

As the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) team welcomes in the New Year, we also have taken a few moments to reflect back on the Top 10 most read content from 2023. 1. A Dietary Supplement Leads to Remarkable Regression in Atherosclerotic Lesions 2. Medtronic Creates History with FDA Approval of its Novel PulseSelect Pulsed Field Ablation System to Treat Atrial Fibrillation 3.

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Donated Heart Valves Still Growing a Year After World's 1st Partial Heart Transplant

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- The newborn that received the world's first partial heart transplant in 2022 continued to do well a year later, according to a case report from the transplant team. Born with type A2 persistent truncus arteriosus and irreparable.

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Hearing Loss Linked with Increased Risk of Dementia

HCPLive

In a new study, hearing loss was significantly associated with a 7% higher risk of dementia, while hearing aids were shown to reduce such risks.

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World's first partial heart transplant proves successful in first year

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

The world's first partial heart transplant has achieved what researchers have spent more than a year hoping for—functioning valves and arteries that grow along with the young patient, as hypothesized by the pioneering team behind the procedure at Duke Health.

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Fasting Before Cardiac Catheterization May Be Unnecessary

DAIC

Credit: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses milla1cf Thu, 01/04/2024 - 11:00 January 4, 2024 — The days of prolonged fasting prior to cardiac catheterization may be numbered, as the body of evidence grows to allow patients to eat before the procedure. Patients undergoing coronary artery catheterization are typically required to take nothing by mouth after midnight prior to their procedure, but there is no evidence to support this long-standing practice.

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In Acute Kidney Disease, SGLT2 inhibitors Were All-Around Protective

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- SGLT2 inhibitors significantly lowered the risk of death, major adverse kidney events (MAKE), and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in people with type 2 diabetes and acute kidney disease, according to a cohort study.

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Faricimab Provides Similar nAMD, DME Outcomes at Significantly Fewer Injections

HCPLive

A systematic review and meta-analysis suggests the dual pathway-targeting faricimab provides some greater benefit in outcomes like CST at fewer injections and without compromise of safety to anti-VEGF monotherapies.

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Three normal high sensitivity troponins over 4 hours with a "normal ECG"

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Willy Frick A 46 year old man with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to urgent care with complaint of "chest burning." The documentation does not describe any additional details of the history. The following ECG was obtained. ECG 1 What do you think? The ECG shows sinus bradycardia but is otherwise normal. There is TWI in lead III, but this can be seen in normal ECGs.

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Gasdermin C sensitizes tumor cells to PARP inhibitor therapy in cancer models

Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

Several poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors (PARPi) are approved by FDA to treat cancer with BRCA mutations. BRCA mutations are considered to fuel a PARPi killing effect by inducing apoptosis. However, resistance to PARPi is frequently observed in the clinic due to an incomplete understanding on the molecular basis of PARPi function and a lack of good markers, beyond BRCA mutations, to predict response.

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EM Cases Best of 2023 Top 10

ECG Cases

Based on a blend of number of listens, feedback from listeners, website visits and personal faves, EM Cases Best of 2023 Top 10. The post EM Cases Best of 2023 Top 10 appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

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NAFLD Presents Similar Risk for Adverse Outcomes Regardless of BMI

HCPLive

Patients with lean NAFLD had fewer metabolic comorbidities but maintained similar risk of NASH, cirrhosis, nonliver cancer, and mortality compared to their overweight and obese counterparts.

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Florida cardiologists extract heart tumor with catheter

Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

HCA Florida Largo Hospital cardiologists were the first in the state to successfully remove a tumor from inside a patient's heart without open heart surgery.

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Targeting lysine demethylase 6B ameliorates ASXL1 truncation–mediated myeloid malignancies in preclinical models

Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

ASXL1 mutation frequently occurs in all forms of myeloid malignancies and is associated with aggressive disease and poor prognosis. ASXL1 recruits Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) to specific gene loci to repress transcription through trimethylation of histone H3 on lysine 27 (H3K27me3). ASXL1 alterations reduce H3K27me3 levels, which results in leukemogenic gene expression and the development of myeloid malignancies.

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GLP-1 receptor agonists-SGLT-2 inhibitors combination therapy and cardiovascular events after acute myocardial infarction: an observational study in patients with type 2 diabetes

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Few studies explored the effect of the combination of glucose sodium-cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2i) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) on the incidence of cardiovascular events in pa.

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Study Details Consequences of Delayed CRRT Initiation in Children, Young Adults

HCPLive

Each 1-day delay in continuous renal replacement therapy initiation was associated with 3% greater odds of major adverse kidney events at 90 days, including mortality, dialysis dependence, and persistent kidney dysfunction.

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iRhythm Technologies Receives European Union’s CE Marking Under Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) for its Zio monitor and ZEUS System

DAIC

milla1cf Wed, 01/03/2024 - 12:09 January 3, 2024 — iRhythm Technologies, Inc. , a leading digital health care company focused on creating trusted solutions that detect, predict, and prevent disease, announced today that its next generation long-term ambulatory cardiac monitor – the Zio monitor ECG System – has received CE mark certification under the European Union’s Medical Device Regulation 2017/745 (“EU MDR”) from its Notified Body, the BSI Group.

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Immune and inflammatory mechanisms in hypertension

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 03 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-023-00964-1 In this Review, Guzik and colleagues discuss immune and inflammatory mechanisms of hypertension, including upstream regulators and downstream effectors as well as the complex interplay between the immune system, blood pressure regulation and end-organ damage, which can help to identify new targets for therapeutic interventions.

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Exploring Obesity and the Latest Advances in Weight Loss Drugs during Healthy Weight Week

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

In today’s society, the prevalence of obesity has become a significant concern. With sedentary lifestyles and the easy availability of unhealthy food choices, more and more individuals are struggling with weight-related issues. This has led to a growing recognition of the importance of maintaining a healthy weight and taking proactive steps towards achieving it.

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