Cardiology News

• Immunotherapy, Steroids Outcomes Positive in COVID-19–Associated MIS Children may experience an acute cardiac decompensation from the severe inflammatory state following SARS-CoV-2 infection, termed multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a study says.
  Medscape Medical News, May 27, 2020
• Tracking COVID-19 Acute, Persisting Right Ventricular Effects Right ventricular dilation is common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and may be linked to anticoagulation. Also, postdischarge MRI detected RV edema and fibrosis in some patients.
  Medscape Medical News, May 27, 2020
• No Link Between ARBs, Increased Suicide Risk A Veterans Affairs study fails to confirm the results of an earlier Canadian, population-based, nested case-control study, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, May 27, 2020
• Strokes Linked to COVID-19 Are More Severe, More Likely Embolic A new study has found that the profile of ischemic strokes in COVID-19 patients is different from what is usually seen. Several other new studies show the pandemic has led to fewer patients presenting for care.
  Medscape Medical News, May 27, 2020
• EAN 2020Sleep Burden Index Predicts Recurrent Stroke The index, which considers several sleep disturbances, is superior to looking at isolated sleep issues in predicting subsequent cardio- and cerebrovascular events.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2020
• Autopsy Data Show Extensive Lung Damage From COVID-19 A small autopsy study shows severe lung damage from COVID-19, but is it different than that seen in severe influenza? A thrombosis expert suggests the findings are not a surprise.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2020
• 'The Story Unfolding Is Worrisome' for Diabetes and COVID-19 Diabetes Care has published a host of new articles on diabetes and COVID-19 infection, as NIDDK researchers also acknowledge risks to other organ systems from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2020
• Mavacamten Phase 2 Results Hopeful in Nonobstructive HCM Good treatments for the condition are scarce, so benefits seen in symptomatic adults who took the drug, an inhibitor of cardiac myosin, in MAVERICK-HCM seem to 'offer a glimmer of hope,' say observers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2020
• Domestic Violence Amid COVID-19: Helping Your Patients From Afar As people are social distancing and staying at home, domestic violence is increasing, and people are at risk. Experts say you can intervene, even from a distance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2020
• Hydroxychloroquine Has No Benefit, 'Only Risks' in COVID-19 Hydroxychloroquine has been touted as a potential treatment for COVID-19, but new observational data show it is not only without benefit but it increases death and arrhythmias.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2020
• As Visits for AMI Drop During Pandemic, Deaths Rise The drastic drop in admissions for acute myocardial infarctions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy has seen a parallel rise in MI fatality rates, according to a new report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2020
• Healthcare Workers May Be at Risk Early in COVID-19 Outbreak In the early stages of a COVID-19 outbreak, healthcare workers may not recognize that patients have the disease, which can put them at risk, new data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2020
• EAN 2020Social Isolation Tied to Higher Risk of CV Events, Death New study results are especially relevant now with social distancing guidelines due to COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2020
• Primary Cardiac Tumors: A Clarion Call for Cardio-Oncology New data confirm the rarity and lethality of these tumors, yet patients are often diagnosed after surgery and only then referred to an oncologist.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2020
• ACC Virtual Scientific Sessions 2020: Drug Therapy Highlights   While the live meeting was canceled, the late-breaking clinical trials were presented virtually. Here are a few study highlights related to cardiovascular drug therapies.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2020
• COVID-19: Jury Out Over Prone Position in Nonintubated Patients Placing COVID-19 patients who require noninvasive ventilation into the prone position may offer some transient benefits, but questions remain over whether it affects longer-term outcomes, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2020
• Treatment Tips as COVID-19 Complicates CVD Management in Diabetes A panel of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes addresses the many ways COVID-19 can "profoundly affect" CVD risk management, provides recommendations to manage hospitalized patients.
  Medscape Medical News, May 22, 2020
• New Guidance to Protect Providers, Manage Stroke in COVID-19 COVID-19 raises stroke risk, but patients presenting with stroke might not have confirmed infection. This new guideline provides recommendations for evaluating and managing these patients.
  Medscape Medical News, May 21, 2020
• DOACs Linked to Lower Fracture Risk vs Warfarin in AFib Patients A recent population-based cohort study is one of the latest reports to suggest direct oral anticoagulants could have an edge over warfarin for preventing fractures.
  Medscape Medical News, May 21, 2020
• Cardiologists' Pay Increases; Most Satisfied With Profession Cardiologists remain among top earners in medicine and would choose the same career again, despite long hours and increasing burden of paperwork, in the 2020 Medscape Cardiologist Compensation Report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 21, 2020