Cardiology
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Abnormal exercise EKG in the setting of normal stress echo linked with increased CV risk
What is the significance of an abnormal exercise EKG with a normal stress echo?
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FDA to add myocarditis warning to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
But a CDC advisory panel, where the FDA made the announcement, still strongly backs the vaccines’ benefits, which outweigh the rare risk for heart...
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Sotagliflozin use in T2D patients linked with posthospitalization benefits in analysis
The paper’s outcome measure may be a meaningful, patient-centered way of capturing disease burden, according to the authors.
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Prophylactic anticoagulation tied to lower death rate in COVID
Prophylactic use of low-dose anticoagulation to prevent venous thromboembolism was associated with reduced 60-day mortality in patients...
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U.S., international MIS-C studies yield disparate results
The two real-world observational studies were published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Reversal agents curb DOAC-related bleeding but deaths still high
The meta-analysis of more than 4,000 patients also showed thrombotic events were more frequent with andexanet than with 4PCC or idarucizumab.
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AHA: Don’t delay COVID shot while CDC reviews myocarditis cases
It remains unclear if suspected myocarditis cases have any direct link to COVID vaccines, and the benefits of vaccination continue to ‘far exceed...
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Simple risk assessment predicts post-PCI ischemic events
Determining if PCI patients have just one or more guideline-based risk features predicts their odds of ischemic events, and can be used to tailor...
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Are left atrial thrombi that defy preprocedure anticoagulation predictable?
Features that predispose to such persistent LA thrombi, which are not very rare, could potentially guide more targeted TEE screening before rhythm...
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First risk score to predict bleeding risk after TAVR
PREDICT-TAVR was developed and validated in two national registries in Europe and outperformed existing risk scores developed outside TAVR.