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Digital heart twin offers potential new tool for treating dangerous heart rhythms

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Using computers to make a digital replica of the hearta digital heart twincan successfully identify problem areas deep in the heart muscle of people with a serious heart rhythm disorder, a new study finds.

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New AI tool simplifies heart monitoring: Fewer leads, same accuracy

Science Daily - Heart Disease

To diagnose heart conditions including heart attacks and heart rhythm disturbances, clinicians typically rely on 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) -- complex arrangements of electrodes and wires placed around the chest and limbs to detect the heart's electrical activity.

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Exposure to aircraft noise linked to worse heart function

Science Daily - Heart Disease

People who live close to airports and are exposed to high aircraft noise levels could be at greater risk of poor heart function, increasing the likelihood of heart attacks, life-threatening heart rhythms and strokes, according to a new study.

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New AI tool simplifies heart monitoring: Fewer leads, same accuracy

Medical Xpress - ECG

To diagnose heart conditions including heart attacks and heart rhythm disturbances, clinicians typically rely on 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs)—complex arrangements of electrodes and wires placed around the chest and limbs to detect the heart's electrical activity.

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Exposure to aircraft noise linked to worse heart function

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

People who live close to airports and are exposed to high aircraft noise levels could be at greater risk of poor heart function, increasing the likelihood of heart attacks, life-threatening heart rhythms and strokes, according to a study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.

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MINOCA : When a heart attack is not a heart attack

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

On the basis of these findings we told her that she had suffered a heart attack. She asked me why I felt she had had a heart attack and I explained to her that she had had chest pains and the blood test indicating damage to the heart was elevated and that was all we needed to say that she had had a heart attack.

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Smidt Heart Institute Sudden Cardiac Arrest Expert Receives 2024 Distinguished Scientist Award

DAIC

milla1cf Fri, 01/19/2024 - 10:38 January 19, 2024 — Heart rhythm expert Sumeet Chugh, MD , associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai , is the recipient of this year’s American College of Cardiology ( ACC ) Distinguished Scientist Award-Clinical Domain. Photo by Cedars-Sinai.