Heart Failure: Latest

• Statins, Vitamin D, and Exercise in Older Adults Mengru Wang, MD, reviews several recently published articles and guidelines relevant to the care of older adults in primary care.
  MDedge News, July 26, 2024
• Cardiovascular Outcomes Better With Home Hemodialysis Home hemodialysis was linked to reduced cardiovascular risks vs peritoneal dialysis in a large study, but key caveats were noted.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Phenotypic Shift, Varied Vasculopathy Noted in IPAH Diffusion capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide was a distinguishing factor in a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Inappropriate NSAID Prescribing Causing Avoidable Harm Prescribing NSAIDs to people at high risk of harm from them has cost more than 6000 years of good health and £31 million for the NHS over the past decade, a study found.
  Medscape News UK, July 26, 2024
• GRAPPA 2024 MACE Risk Similar Among Biologics for Psoriasis, PsA A retrospective analysis shows no difference in major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) between TNF inhibitors, IL-17 inhibitors, IL-23 inhibitors, and IL-12/IL-23 inhibitors.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Could Resistin Predict PAH Severity or Death? Survival models affirmed the value of resistin as a novel biomarker and therapy driver.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Treat Heart Failure More Like Cancer Heart failure should be handled more like cancer — with aggressive early treatment — targeting the cause of the disease, not just the symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Dangers of Intramuscular Fat Tissue Are Often Underestimated Intramuscular fat tissue increases the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Muscle Weakness in a 35-Year-Old Ex-Smoker Two months ago, she began to experience difficulty walking, and she had occasional falls while walking.
  Medscape, July 23, 2024
• Fish Oil Supplements Cut Diabetes Complication Risk Patients with type 2 diabetes who consumed fish oil supplements had a lower risk for both macrovascular and microvascular complications, according to a cohort study.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• Treatable Condition Misdiagnosed as Dementia in 13% of Cases Patients with dementia may instead have hepatic encephalopathy, a treatable cause of cognitive impairment often caused by cirrhosis.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• ECG Challenge: New Beats With a Pacemaker After receiving a pacemaker, this heart failure patient has changes to his ECG. Are these new rhythms normal?
  Medscape Cardiology, July 22, 2024
• Skill Checkup: A Woman With HF and Iron Deficiency A 69-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with acutely worsening heart failure (HF) and iron deficiency, requiring inotropic support. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, July 19, 2024
• Episode 3: SGLT2 Inhibitors: A Future in Cardiorenal Metabolic Syndrome   Join Drs Nihar Desai and Jay Udell as they discuss the role of SGLT2 inhibitors in the treatment of cardiorenal metabolic syndrome.
  Medscape, July 18, 2024
• Rapid Review News Quiz: July 2024 Take this quick quiz on significant medical developments over the past 30 days.
  Medscape, July 17, 2024
• Are US Electrophysiologists Too Easily Impressed? Electrophysiologists adopt new things a little too enthusiastically, writes John Mandrola, MD, of a new technique to treat atrial fibrillation.
  theheart.org on Medscape, July 17, 2024
• Splanchnic Nerve Ablation For Volume Redistribution in HFpEF A subgroup analysis found that some patients with HFpEF may respond to splanchnic ablation for volume management.
  ACC.org, July 09, 2024
• Transplants Using Animal Organs: Research, Not Lifesaving   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses transplantation using organs from animals, and the need to be clear to patients that these early-stage procedures are research rather than lifesaving efforts.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 08, 2024
• No Benefit of Severe Salt Restriction in Heart Failure A moderate daily intake of sodium seems "prudent" for many people with heart failure and may improve quality of life and functional status.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2024
• FDA Drug Approvals Q2 2024 Stay current on FDA drug approvals April-June 2024
  Medscape, July 05, 2024