Arrhythmia & EP News

• 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
• Doctor Deters Death With Drone-Delivered Defibrillator Rescue workers in Sweden say they have used a drone to convey an automated external defibrillator to the scene of a cardiac arrest in just over 3 minutes, potentially saving the patient's life.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 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
• HRS 2022 Conduction-System Pacing CRT Shines vs BiV in Early Studies Several studies support predictions that CSP resynchronization therapy will ultimately emerge as equal or superior to biventricular pacing at improving LVEF and clinical outcomes in heart failure
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Keeping Thyroid Hormone Treatment On Target Is Key for the Heart 'Both undertreatment and overtreatment were associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes,' including higher mortality, but keeping thyroid hormone levels normal is a tricky task, researchers admit.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Chronic Conditions Linked With Higher Risk for Fatal Drowning A retrospective analysis indicates a need for extra vigilance among patients with a seizure disorder or other chronic condition, even when they are in familiar places, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Genetic Testing for Early Onset AF Yields Important Prognostic Information Adults with early onset atrial fibrillation often have rare genetic variants in cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia genes, and genetic testing can provide useful prognostic information, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, May 12, 2022
• ESOC 2022 Recurrent Stroke Risk High in AF, Even With Anticoagulants A new study has found dangerously high levels of stroke recurrence and death among patients who take DOAC or VKA therapy, which researchers say demonstrates an unmet medical need.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022
• HRS 2022 Nasal Spray for Stopping PSVT Seems Feasible, Safe in Long Term The self-administered spray using a calcium-channel blocker, seen as faster-acting than a pill-in-the-pocket, usually terminated multiple bouts of the arrhythmia over months of use in a cohort study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Antithrombotic Therapies Shifting for Watchman LAA Occlusion National registry data show substantial deviation from the treatment protocols used in the pivotal randomized trials in the years following approval of the device.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2022
• HRS 2022 Apple Watch ECG App, Still Experimental, Reveals Low LVEF It's seen as a low-cost way to remotely track patients at increased risk for ventricular dysfunction with 12-lead-ECG accuracy. 'We can imagine them getting an ECG every day,' said one researcher.
  Medscape Medical News, May 02, 2022
• HRS 2022 New Real-World Data Bolster Safety of Watchman FLX in LAAO Design changes that simplify deployment and recapture appear to give the next-generation device a sizeable advantage over the first Watchman 2.5 device.
  Medscape Medical News, May 02, 2022
• HRS 2022 Early EP Consult, Ordered in the ER, a Boon to AF Outcomes A simple intervention could potentially lead to faster and better care of patients with new-onset atrial fibrillation, making further ER visits less likely and prolonging survival, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, May 02, 2022
• HRS 2022 Why Are Numbers of Women, Minorities So Low in Cardiac EP? The very low number of women and individuals from ethnic minorities in the cardiac electrophysiology speciality in the United States has been highlighted in two new studies.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022
• HRS 2022 Cutting Dementia Risk in AF: Does Type of Rhythm Control Matter? The way sinus rhythm is restored in patients with atrial fibrillation might make a difference to risk for later dementia, suggests a cohort study that still leaves plenty of questions.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022
• Genetic Test for Six Chronic Diseases Undergoing Clinical Trial Researchers developed assays and supportive information to examine the expanded role of genetic information in patient care.
  Medscape Medical News, April 29, 2022
• Will You Suffer Cardiac Arrest? New Tech May Predict If and When Researchers at Johns Hopkins University want to create a 3D model of your heart to predict a life-threatening problem before it happens.
  WebMD Health News, April 26, 2022
• Vascepa's CV Mortality Benefit Magnified in MI Patients On top of statin therapy, icosapent ethyl provides mortality reductions in patients with prior MI.
  Medscape Medical News, April 26, 2022
• Young, Older Athletes Show Similar Patterns With fQRS Some structural changes were observed, but they had no impact on exercise-induced arrhythmias in adolescent athletes.
  Medscape Medical News, April 21, 2022
• EHRA 2022 MELOS: LBB Area Pacing Promising for Bradyarrhythmias, HF The large European study suggests the technique may be viable but also has a stiff learning curve and can result in a "wide spectrum" of complications.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2022