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New guidelines remap adult congenital heart disease


 

Breast artery calcification, evident on every mammogram, may help refine coronary artery disease risk in women. Also this week, new guidelines reclassify adult congenital heart disease, advice to eat a variety of foods seems to have backfired, and how PCI can now safely tackle complex chronic total occlusions.

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