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Leadless dual-chamber pacemaker clears early safety, performance hurdles
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- Steve Stiles
The study suggests that “dual-chamber pacing can be achieved with leadless technology” and “with a very high degree” of AV synchrony.
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Cut in AFib burden gains traction as gauge of ablation success: PULSED-AF
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- Steve Stiles
It’s the first study tying those outcomes to residual AFib burden after ablation achieved using the emerging pulsed-field ablation technology.
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Losing weight may bolster AFib ablation’s chances for success: LEAF interim results
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- Steve Stiles
“We’re talking about a moderate amount of weight loss. These patients are not going from being obese to being thin. They’re still quite overweight...
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Gestational HTN, preeclampsia worsen long-term risk for ischemic, nonischemic heart failure
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- Steve Stiles
The current study “is an important step” for its finding that hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are associated separately with both ischemic and...
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NSAID use in diabetes may worsen risk for first HF hospitalization
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- Steve Stiles
“Given the well-established relationship between the use of NSAIDs and increased HF, these findings are not unexpected because type 2 diabetes is...
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Statins don’t worsen muscle injury from moderately intense exercise
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- Steve Stiles
Statin users need not limit exercise out of concern that the drugs will worsen normal muscle pain or fatigue, a controlled study suggests.
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AHA, ACC push supervised exercise training for HFpEF
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- Steve Stiles
The statement aims to raise clinicians’ awareness of exercise as a therapy in preserved ejection fraction heart failure and convince Medicare that...
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Subclinical CAD by CT predicts MI risk, with or without stenoses
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- Steve Stiles
Even without symptoms, more atherosclerosis by CT angiography means greater MI risk, which climbs even further if there are obstructive lesions....
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FDA expands evinacumab approval to younger kids with HoFH
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- Steve Stiles
The agency has okayed evinacumab-dgnb for patients aged 5-11 with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
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Mini-invasive MV repair as safe, effective as sternotomy surgery but has advantages: UK Mini-Mitral Trial
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- Steve Stiles
Patient recovery at 12 weeks and safety outcomes were similar for the two techniques in patients with degenerative mitral valve disease. But the...
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Viability-guided PCI doubted in stable severe CAD: REVIVED-BCIS2
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- Steve Stiles
Is myocardial viability testing for guiding PCI decisions currently used in the best way? A secondary analysis from the main trial suggests not....
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Silent bradycardia common on loop recorders – pacemaker needed?
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- Steve Stiles
Long-term rhythm monitoring in a trial revealed six times as much bradycardia as was diagnosed in a usual-care clinical setting. What are the...
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Uptick in natriuretic peptides with long-term serial testing predicts new heart failure
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- Steve Stiles
Serial NT-proBNP assays could potentially identify which of those without clinical disease might most benefit from heart-failure preventive...
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What happened to surgical mitral valve repair in the MitraClip era?
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- Steve Stiles
It was just as prevalent but with better outcomes as transcatheter mitral valve repair emerged to take on high-risk cases. But more than just a...
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Accelerated pacing a possible strategy for HFpEF?
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- Steve Stiles
A study challenges the dogma of beta-blockers for HF with preserved ejection fraction. For now, the strategy might only be for HFpEF patients...