Cardiology News

• More, Larger Brain Lesions on MRI After Bicuspid TAVR The significance of these silent lesions, however, is unclear, observers say, as studies suggest they can be detected in most, if not all, TAVR patients.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020
• As Hospitals Fill Up, Some COVID-19 Patients Are Sent Home Patients who might have been admitted to the hospital in the early days of the pandemic are now being sent home, primarily as a result of gaps in staffing and beds.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020
• Possible Warning Clinicians Can Miss Before an HF Admission It may be common not to heed the signal, but that's a missed opportunity to arrive at a heart failure diagnosis that might otherwise be made only after the patient is admitted, a study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020
• Which Prehospital Scale Best Flags Large Vessel Stroke? A new study compares seven different scales used by paramedics to identify patients most suitable for direct transport to a comprehensive stroke center.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020
• New Plan to Help Stratify Routine Diabetes Care During Pandemic Categorizing patients with diabetes as 'urgent', 'priority', and 'routine' prioritizes care during pandemic, but also could help improve future care after COVID-19, say British endocrinologists.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020
• Medicare Finalizes 2021 Physician Pay Rule With E/M Changes Medicare stuck with a plan to raise payments for specialties that focus on helping patients manage chronic conditions. The increases will be offset by cuts for other fields, drawing protests.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2020
• Colchicine a Case Study for What's Wrong With US Drug Pricing A Medicare/Medicaid analysis shows a prolonged public-spending burden, despite generics available outside the United States for pennies a pill. Meanwhile, use widens from gout to MI, even COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2020
• Noninvasive, Low Cost CGM for Type 2 Diabetes Coming in US and EU Neumara Medical's SugarBEAT device plus digital coaching aims to reverse, or at least better manage, type 2 diabetes and should be available soon in the US and Europe.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2020
• New AHA Scientific Statement on Menopause and CVD Risk An AHA scientific statement aims to raise awareness of healthcare providers and women about the menopause transition as a time of increasing heart disease risk.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2020
• CMS Launches Hospital-at-Home Program to Free Up Hospital Capacity The agency's move is likely to prompt more hospitals to start similar initiatives and persuade more private insurers to cover hospital-at-home care.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• COVID-19 and Risk of Clotting: 'Be Proactive About Prevention' How best to manage the increased risk of arterial and venous thrombosis in COVID-19 patients is the subject of a new review article.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• Blood Glucose on Admission Predicts COVID-19 Severity in All Observational data from more than 11,000 COVID-19 patients finds significant link between high blood glucose on admission and COVID-19 severity, independent of diabetes status.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2020
• Review Shows That Pharma Payments Do Influence Prescribing While many physicians resist the idea that pharma payments influence their prescribing, a new review finds a dose-response relationship between the two.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2020
• Age No Barrier to Weight Loss in Those With Morbid Obesity Healthcare professionals should recognize the importance of weight loss in the over 60s and include them in programs to treat obesity, say researchers who found comparable reductions to younger people.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2020
• ESO-WSO 2020 Incidence of Stroke, But Not MI, Increasing in Young People The incidence of stroke increased among younger adults in a retrospective study, while acute myocardial infarction, despite sharing many cardiovascular risk factors with stroke, did not change.
  Medscape Medical News, November 26, 2020
• Biomarker May Flag Response to Novel AF Intervention Neuromodulation of the tragus nerve using a TENS-type device has been shown to reduce AF burden. A biomarker, neuropeptide Y, may flag who will or won't respond to this intervention.
  Medscape Medical News, November 26, 2020
• ESO-WSO 2020 High Systolic BP After EVT for Stroke Tied to Poor Outcomes Greater disability and increased risk of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage are more likely if a patient has high blood pressure during the first 6 hours after undergoing endovascular therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, November 26, 2020
• New Study Pinpoints How Mediterranean Diet Reduces Diabetes Risk A 20-year follow-up of participants in the Women's Health Study unveils some of the mechanisms by which the Mediterranean diet is believed to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, November 26, 2020
• Hospitals in the Midwest Strapped for Beds, Staff With the number of COVID-19 inpatients tripling in the past 2 weeks alone, staff at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics say they feel like they've been called to war.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2020
• AHA 2020 Resuscitation More Likely With Faster Time to Head-Up CPR A preliminary study employed a "package" consisting of a head-up positioning device and different devices for CPR, so "it's hard to know which component is most important," said one expert.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2020