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FDA: No excess mortality risk from paclitaxel stents, balloons for peripheral intervention
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- Steve Stiles
“The updated RCT meta-analysis does not indicate that the use of paclitaxel-coated devices is associated with a late mortality risk.”
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FDA expands inclisiran statin-adjunct indication to include primary prevention
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- Steve Stiles
The indications now include patients taking statins for primary dyslipidemia who have high-risk comorbidities such as diabetes but who do not have...
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Starting indicated heart failure meds in-hospital: Progress, opportunities
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- Steve Stiles
The finding suggests that “heart failure hospitalization is, in and of itself, an important intervention for getting folks on the appropriate...
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First-line or BiV backup? Conduction system pacing for CRT in heart failure
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- Steve Stiles
CSP is “a long way” from replacing conventional CRT, but the new studies at the HRS sessions should help extend His-bundle and LBB-area pacing to...
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ECG implant tightens AFib management, improves outcomes in MONITOR-AF
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- Steve Stiles
“Continuous and dynamic monitoring enabled quicker decision-making and patient management.”
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Leadless dual-chamber pacemaker clears early safety, performance hurdles
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- Steve Stiles
The study suggests that “dual-chamber pacing can be achieved with leadless technology” and “with a very high degree” of AV synchrony.
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Cut in AFib burden gains traction as gauge of ablation success: PULSED-AF
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- Steve Stiles
It’s the first study tying those outcomes to residual AFib burden after ablation achieved using the emerging pulsed-field ablation technology.
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Losing weight may bolster AFib ablation’s chances for success: LEAF interim results
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- Steve Stiles
“We’re talking about a moderate amount of weight loss. These patients are not going from being obese to being thin. They’re still quite overweight...
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Gestational HTN, preeclampsia worsen long-term risk for ischemic, nonischemic heart failure
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- Steve Stiles
The current study “is an important step” for its finding that hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are associated separately with both ischemic and...
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NSAID use in diabetes may worsen risk for first HF hospitalization
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- Steve Stiles
“Given the well-established relationship between the use of NSAIDs and increased HF, these findings are not unexpected because type 2 diabetes is...
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Statins don’t worsen muscle injury from moderately intense exercise
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- Steve Stiles
Statin users need not limit exercise out of concern that the drugs will worsen normal muscle pain or fatigue, a controlled study suggests.
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AHA, ACC push supervised exercise training for HFpEF
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- Steve Stiles
The statement aims to raise clinicians’ awareness of exercise as a therapy in preserved ejection fraction heart failure and convince Medicare that...
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Subclinical CAD by CT predicts MI risk, with or without stenoses
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- Steve Stiles
Even without symptoms, more atherosclerosis by CT angiography means greater MI risk, which climbs even further if there are obstructive lesions....
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FDA expands evinacumab approval to younger kids with HoFH
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- Steve Stiles
The agency has okayed evinacumab-dgnb for patients aged 5-11 with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
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Mini-invasive MV repair as safe, effective as sternotomy surgery but has advantages: UK Mini-Mitral Trial
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- Steve Stiles
Patient recovery at 12 weeks and safety outcomes were similar for the two techniques in patients with degenerative mitral valve disease. But the...