“One in four adults worldwide—fully 1.4 billion people—don’t get enough physical activity per week, and women tend to be more inactive than men, according to a new analysis of data from 2001 to 2016.”
Visit Website“A “substantial” number of patients with aortic stenosis but no symptoms are being sent for aortic valve replacement in some European countries even in the absence of guideline-recommended indications, according to new data from the IMPULSE registry.”
Visit Website“Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement who are discharged early after the procedure do not fare any worse than patients who stay in the hospital longer, according to the results of a new meta-analysis.”
Visit Website“Ten years after transcatheter aortic valve replacement was introduced in the United Kingdom, the number of patients undergoing the procedure has, not surprisingly, increased exponentially.”
Visit Website“Experience matters in TAVR outcomes, a new international registry study finds, providing fodder to the ongoing debate about the need for procedural volume requirements for TAVR programs.”
Visit Website“Patients hospitalized for acute MI, heart failure, or pneumonia have different outcomes depending on their race and neighborhood income, but an analysis suggests the cause of those differences is not rooted at the hospital level.”
Visit Website“It is exactly 2 weeks since the MITRA-FR results were unveiled at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2018 and 2 weeks before the next MitraClip trial will be presented at TCT 2018.”
Visit Website“Results from several small and preliminary studies testing a range of devices for tricuspid regurgitation (TR) hint that percutaneous therapies are making progress for what’s long been called the “forgotten” valve.”
Visit Website“An intervention program aimed at increasing blood pressure control through both team-based care and telemonitoring had lasting effects for up to 1 year after it ended, according to a new analysis.”
Visit Website“Small, single-center series continue to trickle in suggesting that operators proficient in TAVR procedures for on-label procedures are also offering it to patients with no other options who don’t necessarily meet standard criteria—and seeing some promising results.”
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