Hospitalizations for Stroke Associated With Infective Endocarditis and Opioid Use: National Trends
A recent study published in Circulation Stroke conducted by Omran et al. reported that the US hospitalization rates for stroke associated with infective endocarditis... Read more.
EuroCTO: A Simple Scoring System to Predict Technical Success when Performing CTO PCI
A study by Zsolt Szijgyarto and his colleagues published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions has derived the EuroCTO (CASTLE) from the largest database of CTO... Read more.
Triglyceride-Lowering LPL Variants and LDL-C–Lowering LDLR Variants Are Associated With Similar Lower Risk of Coronary Heart Disease, Says a New Study
A study by Ference et al. published in JAMA showed that triglyceride-lowering LPL variants and LDL-C–lowering LDLR variants were associated with similar lower... Read more.
Randomized Trial Comparing Bilateral with Single Internal-Thoracic-Artery Grafting for CABG Shows No Significant Difference in All-Cause Mortality
A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that among patients who were scheduled for CABG and had been randomly assigned to undergo... Read more.
Did the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Impact Heart Failure Readmission or Mortality?
An article by Sandhu et al. published in the American Heart Journal reported that on using critical access hospitals (CAHs) as a control group, the introduction... Read more.
FFRCT Provides Superior Functional Assessment of Coronary Stenosis When Compared With Traditional Functional Imaging Techniques
A study published in JACC reported that fractional flow reserve (FFR) computation from coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) datasets (FFRCT) had higher... Read more.
FDA Issues Cautionary ‘Dear Doctor’ Letter In Response to Study Reporting Increased Deaths with Paclitaxel-Coated Devices in PAD
The FDA issued a Dear Doctor letter while investigating a potential safety signal with paclitaxel-coated balloons and stents used to treat peripheral artery disease.... Read more.
Higher Dietary Fiber Intake Associated with Reduction in Incidence of Non-Communicable Diseases
A series of systematic reviews and meta-analyses have depicted how findings from prospective studies and clinical trials associated with relatively high intakes... Read more.
Identification of a Risk Locus Suggests SCAD May be Genetically Determined
In the largest study conducted to date for Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), the first genetic risk factor was identified. The findings, published in... Read more.
Women in Interventional Cardiology: ‘If You Love it, You Will Make it!’
According to a recent publication in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, many factors uniquely dissuade women from pursuing interventional cardiology (IC) compared... Read more.