Cardiology News

• 7 Tactics to Reduce EHR Tasks and Save Time The EHR is a major source of frustration for doctors. Here's how some hospitals and doctors are eliminating time-consuming tasks.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• B-Vitamin May Help Boost Antidepressant Efficacy The B vitamin L-methylfolate is a promising adjunct for depression in patients with an inadequate response to antidepressants, particularly in those with high inflammatory biomarkers or obesity.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2023
• EAS 2023 Steep LDL Cholesterol Reductions With ANGPTL3 siRNA in HoFH A single injection every 3 months of a novel drug that targets the lipid metabolism enzyme ANGPTL3 resulted in substantial reductions in LDL cholesterol in patients with HoFH in the phase 2 GATEWAY trial.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2023
• ESOC 2023 Preventive Antipyretics, Antibiotics Not Needed in Stroke Prophylactic use of antiemetic, antipyretic, or antibiotic drugs in older patients with acute stroke did not reduce the risk of a poor functional outcome in the PRECIOUS trial.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2023
• Traditional Mexican Food Has Health Benefits Many Mexican dishes and drinks are high in phenolic compounds and associated with better health status.
  Medscape Medical News, May 31, 2023
• ESOC 2023 Intensive BP Reduction After Stroke Recanalization Harmful Intensive blood pressure management worsens outcomes and should not be pursued in stroke patients successfully recanalized with intra-arterial thrombectomy, results of the OPTIMAL-BP trial show.
  Medscape Medical News, May 31, 2023
• Troponin to ID Diabetes Patients With Silent Heart Disease? US adults with type 2 diabetes and asymptomatic for cardiovascular disease had twice the prevalence of an elevated level of cardiac troponin T compared with those without diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, May 31, 2023
• EuroPCR 2023 No Signal of Higher Noncardiac Death With Revascularization Contrary to previous findings, no increased risk of noncardiac mortality was associated with revascularization in a meta-analysis of 18 trials.
  Medscape Medical News, May 30, 2023
• ESOC 2023 Tenecteplase Late After Stroke Misses Endpoint: TIMELESS Giving very late thrombolysis to patients with large-vessel occlusion small core strokes did not show a significant benefit in the TIMELESS trial, although there were some encouraging findings.
  Medscape Medical News, May 30, 2023
• HRS 2023 ECG Monitor Implant Tightens AF Management, Boosts Outcomes Fewer strokes and bleeding complications and greater med compliance were benefits of treatment guided by implanted loop recorders in a registry analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, May 30, 2023
• Ticagrelor, DAPT Equal in Preventing Repeat Revascularization After percutaneous coronary intervention, ticagrelor alone or with aspirin are equally effective in preventing repeat revascularization at one year in a post-hoc TWILIGHT analysis.
  MDedge News, May 30, 2023
• EuroPCR 2023 ECMO Signal of Benefit for Cardiogenic Shock After MI Though based on small numbers in a halted trial, ECMO was associated with reduced mortality for PCI patients in MI-related cardiogenic shock, results of the EURO SHOCK trial suggest.
  MDedge News, May 30, 2023
• PTSD, Anxiety Linked to Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest A new study shows an association between stress-related disorders like PTSD as well as anxiety and an increased risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
  Medscape Medical News, May 30, 2023
• ESOC 2023 Cardiopathy No Basis for Choosing Anticoagulation in ESUS Clinicians shouldn't expect apixaban to offer benefit over aspirin in patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source simply because they have atrial cardiopathy, ARCADIA investigators conclude.
  Medscape Medical News, May 29, 2023
• ESOC 2023 No Added Benefit From Revascularization in Low-Risk CAS Optimized medical therapy may be enough in patients with carotid artery stenosis who have a low to intermediate stroke risk, after the ESCT-2 trial showed no benefit from adding revascularization.
  Medscape Medical News, May 29, 2023
• EAS 2023 Lomitapide Shows Promise in Pediatric Homozygous FH Children and adolescents with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia could benefit from lomitapide therapy, suggests a trial, although safety concerns and upcoming novel drugs question its place.
  Medscape Medical News, May 29, 2023
• Alert FDA Approves New Drug, Sotagliflozin, for Heart Failure Sotagliflozin, a novel inhibitor of both SGLT 1 and 2, enters the US market with indications for preventing CV events, especially heart failure hospitalization and acute exacerbations.
  FDA Approvals, May 26, 2023
• EAS 2023 Overweight in Heterozygous FH Tied to Even Higher CAD Risk The relatively high rates of overweight and obesity among patients with familial hypercholesterolemia should be addressed to reduce apparent impact on coronary artery disease risk, suggests a UK study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2023
• ESOC 2023 AI Improves Stroke Recognition in Emergency Calls An artificial intelligence tool outperformed human call handlers in recognizing patients with stroke from calls to the emergency services in a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2023
• Plant-Based Diet Tied to Healthier Blood Lipid Levels 'If people start eating vegetarian or vegan diets from an early age, the potential for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease caused by blocked arteries is substantial,' says study author.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2023