Cardiology News

• The Rocky Path to Parenthood During Cardiology Training An international survey found significant variation in parental leave policies, including scant time off for trainees in the US and Asia vs other countries.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• SGLT-2 inhibitors as First-Line Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes? Real-world study finds heart failure hospitalization reduction compared to metformin but not MI, stroke, or overall mortality, and greater genital infection risk.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 ACURATE neo2 Paravalvular Leaks Plummet vs Predecessor New real-world registry data comparing the redesigned valve to the first-generation ACURATE neo suggest that small changes can lead to big improvements.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• ESC-HF Moderate to High Alcohol Use May Push 'Pre-HF' Into Clinical HF Also, no protection was evident at any alcohol-intake level among STOP-HF trial participants who were initially at risk for heart failure but without echocardiographic signs of the disease.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 Mixed Interim Results for Combination Imaging in CABG Patients The GREECE study is investigating whether use of noninvasive coronary CT angiography can reduce use of invasive angiography when making treatment decisions for patients with previous bypass surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• ESOC 2022 Thrombolysis Safe in Stroke Patients on Oral Anticoagulants A new observational study finds IV thrombolysis for acute stroke is safe for patients receiving direct oral anticoagulant therapy, prompting researchers to ask if current guidelines should be changed.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• ESC-HF Voice-Analysis App Promising as Acute-HF Early Warning System It could potentially help guide heart failure therapy to avert acute decompensations, researchers say. 'But of course, we have to show that now in larger and randomized clinical studies.'
  Medscape Medical News, May 21, 2022
• How to Manage Drug Interactions With Paxlovid for COVID Some drugs can be held or reduced for the 5-day course. IDSA has published an online guide. Availability in pharmacies has greatly increased in recent weeks.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• SCAI 2022 SCAI Issues Guidelines for PFO Management, Makes Case for Expansion Clinical guidelines address expanded indications for percutaneous patent foramen ovale closure along with antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Aspirin Links With CVD Cut in Patients With Kidney Disease Recent recommendations advise against aspirin for primary prevention of CVD events in people over 59 years old, but when chronic kidney disease is present it looks like a different story.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Failed to Register Your Trial? Don't Use a Another Study's Number The registration number provided by the author for the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR-IOR-17014122) seems to correspond to a different trial than the one described in the article.
  Retraction Watch, May 20, 2022
• AACE 2022 Debate Continues on Combination Therapy for Hypothyroidism Clinicians shouldn't dismiss patients who complain about residual symptoms despite TSH normalization with levothyroxine, say thyroid experts who have rekindled a long-running debate at the AACE meeting.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• A Cup of Cranberries a Day Tied to Better Memory Consuming the equivalent of one cup of cranberries daily may improve memory by increasing blood flow to key areas of the brain that support cognition, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Prostate Cancer Survival: Enzalutamide Edges Out Abiraterone Men with metastatic disease who received enzalutamide demonstrated a small but significant survival benefit. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Many Americans Missing an Opportunity to Prevent Dementia Nearly half of all US adults aged 45 and older have modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's and related dementia, including high blood pressure, low levels of physical activity, and obesity.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• CDC Signs Off on COVID Boosters in Children Ages 5-11 An advisory panel also called for stepped-up efforts to make sure children get their initial vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 JenaValve Trilogy Takes Another Step Forward in Severe AR The TAVI system met both the primary safety and efficacy endpoints in the first real-world study since its recent approval in Europe. A pivotal trial in ongoing in the United States.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 LYDEN: Better Hemodynamics With Evolut vs Sapien in ViV The self-expanding and balloon-expandable valves were comparable, however, on other outcomes in the challenging setting of small failed surgical valves.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• The Anxious Patient Needs Psychosomatic Primary Care Anxiety can result from a patient's disposition and from environmental stimuli such as the internet. Because anxiety can worsen compliance and outcomes, clinicians should work to counteract it.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• EuroPCR 2022 Noninvasive Approach to Revascularization Decisions Shows Promise The noninvasive quantitative flow ratio (QFR) approach showed substantial agreement with the more invasive classical fractional flow reserve approach in the DECISION QFR study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022