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Alzheimer's Patients Show Cardiac Abnormalities A new Italian study reports preliminary clinical evidence that Alzheimer's may involve the heart as well as the brain.
Medscape Medical News, February 2019
CT Before TMVR May Identify Risk for Outflow Obstruction Computed tomography (CT) in advance of transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) may help identify patients at risk for left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction, researchers say.
Reuters Health Information, January 2019
PFO Closure After Stroke Shows Long-term Benefits A new study shows a low rate of recurrent stroke with up to 17 years of follow-up. It also questions the need for lifelong use of aspirin in these patients.
Medscape Medical News, January 2019
NAFLD in Adolescent Boys Improves With Low Sugar Diet Adolescent boys on a "low free sugar" diet show significant improvements in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), according to results from an 8-week randomized clinical trial.
Reuters Health Information, January 2019

Interventional Cardiology: Physician and Proceduralist 'I do not want to be known as a high- or a low-volume operator,' writes, Jaya Mallidi, MD, in a plea for her field to value critical thinking as much as it celebrates the latest Impella case.
theheart.org on Medscape, February 20, 2019
A New Biological Definition of Alzheimer Disease Defining Alzheimer disease: Dr Alan Jacobs discusses a new biological definition and its implications.
Medscape Neurology, February 20, 2019
Deintensifying Diabetes Drugs: Important Considerations Much attention has been paid to when to increase intensity of antidiabetes medications. But when should you step back -- and in which patients?
Medscape Family Medicine, February 19, 2019
Life and Times of Leading Cardiologists: Holger Thiele Holger Thiele's career in cardiogenic shock began in West Berlin where he witnessed the fall of the wall and moved to Leipzig to pursue cardiology. This former ironman still bikes to the hospital.
theheart.org on Medscape, February 14, 2019

Analyze This Image: Remote History of Mitral Valve Replacement Mechanical valves can pose problems on imaging, but Ronald Wharton, MD, shows you how to see through the shadows.
theheart.org on Medscape, December 6, 2018
Echo Case: Four of a Kind Dr Wharton demonstrates an interesting and unusual case of a young adult with dyspnea, highlighting the value of M-mode echocardiography.
theheart.org on Medscape, October 30, 2018