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Visit Website“The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA)’s most recently updated guidelines for high blood pressure in adults redefined hypertension at a lower threshold, and those boundaries remain safe for patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib), according to a large-scale review published in the current issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.”
Visit Website“Mothers or infants experienced no adverse cardiac events during 24 pregnancies completed by women who had undergone an arterial switch operation (ASO), according to a single-center, retrospective study published online Sept. 5 in JAMA Cardiology.”
Visit Website“Just weeks after Senate bill 3388 was introduced to Congress, major U.S. health organizations like the American Heart Association are warning that despite legislative efforts to ensure equal access to healthcare, the bill wouldn’t adequately protect patients with pre-existing conditions.”
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Visit Website“The majority of firefighters who die from cardiac arrest while on duty have underlying coronary heart disease (CHD) and an enlarged heart, including left ventricular hypertrophy, according to a study of autopsy data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.”
Visit Website“Transcatheter interventions have become a mainstay in cardiac care as treatments for structural and congenital heart disease transition from open-heart surgery to minimally invasive procedures.”
Visit Website“MUNICH, Germany—The fourth iteration of the universal definition of MI, released to coincide with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2018 here last week, makes clear that not every cardiac troponin elevation is indicative of an infarction.”
Visit Website“A learning curve of at least 225 procedures is required for hospitals to perform transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVRs) with the lowest mortality rates, suggests a study of 16 centers participating in an international registry.”
Visit Website“Beyond measuring blood flow, pressure, oxygen levels and other vital signs in the cardiac catheterization lab, current hemodynamic monitoring systems are an integral part of clinical reporting.”
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