Conference Coverage
Conference Coverage
Marijuana use dramatically increases risk of heart problems, stroke
The latest research indicates that smoking and inhaling cannabis increases concentrations of blood carboxyhemoglobin and tar, similar to the...
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Drug-coated balloon beats conventional angioplasty for high-risk patients with in-stent restenosis
This device is a U.S. FDA–designated breakthrough device, “and this pivotal trial will be the primary evidence used to support FDA approval.”
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Drug-eluting resorbable scaffold beats angioplasty for infrapopliteal artery disease
“If this technology is approved by the FDA, it will provide a new option for our patients with very difficult-to-treat disease, which will provide...
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No benefit of colchicine after stroke, TIA: CHANCE-3
“We require randomized trials with longer follow-up prior to abandoning this potential treatment.”
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Low-risk TAVR studies: Divergent long-term results
“Cardiovascular mortality occurred at a rate of about 1% per year with both therapies, strokes at the rate of 1% per year with both therapies, and...
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Trilogy TAVR safe, effective in aortic regurgitation
One-year mortality rate of 7.8% reported.
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How clinicians can prepare for and defend against social media attacks
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Common meds link to sudden cardiac arrest in type 2 diabetes
“If the patient has type 2 diabetes, then maybe it’s better to avoid some of these medications and try and cope without them, or at least find an...
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Antidepressants ‘don’t blunt’ semaglutide and weight loss
“Semaglutide 2.4 mg provides an effective treatment option for weight management, regardless of antidepressant use at baseline.”
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Trials say start sacubitril-valsartan in hospital in HF with ‘below normal’ LVEF
The risk-reduction benefit reached 41% among the overwhelming majority of patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction.
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Hopeful insights, no overall HFpEF gains from splanchnic nerve ablation: REBALANCE-HF
The trial’s potential-responder cohort “seemed able to augment cardiac output in response to stress” and to “maintain or augment their orthostatic...