Arrhythmia & EP News

• A Less Invasive, Often Overlooked Option in Cardiac Surgery Though not widely used, sutureless valves have unique strengths that can be a popular option for people who want a less invasive surgery.
  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
• How Drones May Narrow Emergency Response Times Starting in September, if someone in Clemmons, North Carolina, calls 911 to report a cardiac arrest, the first responder on the scene may be a drone.
  KFF Health News, July 23, 2024
• HLTH Europe 2024 Are Expectations for Digital Biomarkers Realistic? Digital technologies are being developed to objectively measure indicators of a disease and treatment response. But will they reach clinical practice?
  Medscape Medical News, July 12, 2024
• Atrial Fibrillation Linked to Dementia in T2D New-onset atrial fibrillation is an independent risk factor for all-cause dementia in patients with T2D, who are more prone to both conditions, says UK Biobank data analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, July 12, 2024
• Lower Edoxaban Dose Reduces Bleeding in Elderly Patients Dose reductions of edoxaban in patients over 80 years of age with atrial fibrillation produced a lower risk for bleeding.
  Medscape Medical News, July 11, 2024
• OAC, AF, and Recurrent Stroke Risk: New Data Despite secondary prevention with OAC, the risk for recurrent stroke and mortality is high in patients with AF. However, OAC discontinuation is tied to a doubling of recurrent stroke.
  Medscape Medical News, July 04, 2024
• AHS 2024 New Insight Into CVD, Stroke Risk in Migraine Researchers are delving deeper into the complicated relationships between migraine and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, June 26, 2024
• ADA 2024 Semaglutide Equally Effective in Women With HFpEF, Obesity Two new analyses of the STEP-HFpEF trials show that semaglutide led to more weight loss in women than in men and that the GLP-1 therapy also improves NYHA class.
  Medscape Medical News, June 24, 2024
• EuroPCR 2024 TAVI Fails Noninferiority to Surgery in Younger Patients In the first-ever randomized controlled trial of younger patients, TAVI did not reach the prespecified noninferiority threshold.
  Medscape Medical News, June 24, 2024
• HRS 2024 Honing Catheter Ablation Techniques for Atrial Fibrillation High-volume centers with more than 100 operators have gathered data on 7000 patients and counting to continually improve outcomes.
  Medscape Medical News, June 24, 2024
• HRS 2024 Anticoagulation Shows No Benefit in Preventing Second Stroke For patients who have had a stroke, anticoagulation with edoxaban didn't reduce the risk for another.
  Medscape Medical News, June 17, 2024
• HRS 2024 Stroke Risk Scale Helps ID Candidates for Anticoagulation The CHA2DS2-VASc stroke risk calculator may clarify which patients with subclinical atrial fibrillation would benefit from anticoagulation.
  Medscape Medical News, June 17, 2024
• HRS 2024 Mediterranean Diet Lowers Tachyarrhythmia in Paroxysmal AF A Mediterranean diet didn't reduce AF recurrence in patients who had undergone ablation, but it did reduce tachyarrhythmia rates in patients with paroxysmal disease.
  Medscape Medical News, June 17, 2024
• What Are the Health Benefits of Owning a Dog? Ample research demonstrated that dog ownership increases physical activity, lowers blood pressure, and brings psychosocial benefits.
  Medscape Medical News, June 17, 2024
• National Academies Issue New Broad Definition of Long COVID A new report defines the infection-associated chronic condition as lasting at least 3 months, with single or multiple symptoms and without need for confirmatory tests.
  Medscape Medical News, June 11, 2024
• Does EEG-Guided Anesthesia Prevent Postop Delirium? Despite a significant reduction in the administration of volatile anesthetics under EEG guidance, cognitive outcomes did not differ, a large randomized controlled trial found.
  Medscape Medical News, June 10, 2024
• SLEEP 2024 Narcolepsy an Independent Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Narcolepsy is associated with an increased risk for CVD, independent of common comorbid conditions and medications used to treat the disorder, new research showed.
  Medscape Medical News, June 07, 2024
• Cardiovascular and Neuro Signs Predict Digoxin Mortality Cardiovascular or neurologic symptoms were independent predictors of mortality in patients presenting with digoxin poisoning, a new study found.
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2024
• Noninvasive Cardiac Tests in ED Show No Long-Term Benefit Higher noninvasive cardiac testing referrals do not improve 2-year risk for cardiac events in emergency patients with chest pain but no acute myocardial injury.
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2024