Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

An international cardiology working group has published a consensus report on atrial cardiomyopathy in Europace.

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American College of Cardiology

JANUARY 5, 2024

The newest clinical guideline released by the ACC and the American Heart Association (AHA) provides new and updated recommendations for preventing and optimally managing atrial fibrillation (AFib).

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AFIB Document Atrial Fibrillation Article 60

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

JANUARY 28, 2024

Press Release STS Annual Meeting Late-Breaking Research: 2023 STS/AATS Joint Expert Consensus Document on the Management of the Small Aortic Root January 29, 2024 KCummings Sun, 01/28/2024 - 14:06 SAN ANTONIO (January 28, 2024) — The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Association for Thoracic Surgery released a late-breaking study on a new (..)

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HCPLive

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In these guidelines compiled by the ACAAI, the AAAAI, and the AAOA, recommendations are provided to insurance companies for documentation needed for allergen immunotherapy.

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American College of Cardiology

JUNE 3, 2024

The new 2024 Guideline on the Management of Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) released by the ACC and the American Heart Association (AHA) offers the latest, evidence-based recommendations to guide clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of lower extremity PAD across its four clinical presentation subsets: asymptomatic disease, chronic (..)

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Peripheral Arterial Disease Document Ischemia Article 40

American College of Cardiology

MARCH 29, 2024

The ACC's newest Expert Consensus Decision Pathway (ECDP) released in early March provides an updated framework for the many decisions required in the management and treatment of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

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Document Heart Failure Article 40

American College of Cardiology

JUNE 3, 2024

The newest clinical guideline released by the ACC and the American Heart Association provides the latest evidence-based recommendations for effectively managing individuals diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

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Nature Reviews - Cardiology

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Two new studies document that, despite similar overall exposure to high-fat diet over a lifetime, an intermittent consumption of high-fat diet early in life accelerates atherosclerosis compared with continuous consumption of a high-fat diet.

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Cholesterol Diet Atherosclerosis Document 116

American College of Cardiology

MARCH 29, 2024

A new comprehensive set of clinical performance and quality measures released by the ACC and American Heart Association (AHA) aim to help measure, compare and ultimately improve care and outcomes in adults with valvular (VHD) and structural heart disease (SHD).

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Med Page Today

JULY 23, 2024

records show that the prevalence of documented. (MedPage Today) -- The practice of lipid screening in children still hasn't taken off despite guideline recommendations to do so as early as age 9 years, according to a large cross-sectional study.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The guide is a living document, which I (Willy Frick) will continuously update as I encounter additional angiographic images worth learning from. Attaining expertise in angiography requires dedication and practice. What follows is an introduction to angiography -- a guide meant for people with no prior experience interpreting angiograms.

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HeartRhythm

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It was this fact that prompted Cosío and colleagues,1 when producing a “consensus document” at the end of the 20th century, to emphasize that when catheters were manipulated within the right atrium during electrophysiologic procedures, they were described as moving “anteriorly” when in reality the movement was superior.

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Electrophysiology Document 75

American College of Cardiology

OCTOBER 30, 2024

He then explores the effect of race and sacubitril/valsartan use in HF patients documented in a pooled analysis of the PARADIGM-HF and PARAGON-HF trials. Eagle looks at the consequences of discontinuing long-term drug treatment in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

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Document Heart Failure Article 58

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JUNE 27, 2024

The human body has sophisticated defenses against the deposition of calcium minerals that stiffen heart tissues, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at UCLA Health and the University of Texas at Austin found in a new study that provides the first detailed, step-by-step documentation of how calcification progresses. (..)

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DAIC

JUNE 10, 2024

This document provides for the first time a standardization on nomenclature for quantitative parameters derived from CCTA,” said Hector Garcia-Garcia , MD, PhD, writing group co-chair and corresponding author.

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HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

Left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP) has been recently evaluated for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). However, the impact of myocardial scar on clinical outcomes is unclear.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For test notes with documented National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, scores were extracted using regular expressions (stage 1); when not documented, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator was used for prediction (stage 2). We trained a model with the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator.

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Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- FDA staff questioned the evidence for clinical benefit with the TriClip G4 transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) system for severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) in documents released ahead of the agency's Circulatory System.

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Tricuspid Document 97

HCPLive

JUNE 25, 2024

The latest in our series of quizzes on the ESC/EAS 2019 Dyslipidemia guidelines tests your knowledge on pharmacotherapy recommendations from the document!

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American College of Cardiology

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In this episode, Andrea Price, MS, AACC hosts Jessie Dunne, PharmD, BCCP, BCPC and Orly Vardeny, PharmD, MS, FAHA, FHFSA to discuss the most recent heart failure guidelines, expert consensus publication, and what these documents mean to a pharmacist working on a heart failure care team.

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Heart Failure Document Article 49

HeartRhythm

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Although clinical arrhythmias are spontaneously triggered by premature ventricular complexes, these triggers are difficult to document and little is known about their site of origin. Heterogeneities in ventricular repolarization contribute significantly to the genesis of ventricular fibrillation (VF).

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American College of Cardiology

AUGUST 8, 2024

A newly released ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway (ECDP) focused on the clinical assessment, management and trajectory of patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF) includes revisions to the 2019 version of the document and harmonizes guidance in response to the ACC/AHA Heart Failure Guideline released in 2022.

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Heart Failure Document Hospital Article 62

Heart BMJ

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Accordingly, an American/European consensus document redefining MI was adopted for the first time, defining MI as clinical evidence of cardiac ischaemia and maximal concentration of troponin T or I exceeding the decision limit (99th percentile of the values for a reference control group).

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Myocardial Infarction Document 98

HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

The earlier indication of catheter ablation (CA) to atrial fibrillation (AF) had suggested the better outcome post-CA before advancement in left atrial remodeling. However, the optimal timing of CA in patients with a low burden of AF remains unknown.

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American College of Cardiology

MARCH 8, 2024

The following are key points to remember from a 2024 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway for treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), an update to the 2021 document.

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Document Heart Failure Article 72

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

JULY 17, 2024

In the past 20 years, some clinical cases have been documented. Mediastinal myelolipoma is a rare condition and has no obvious symptoms. However, the literature has not systematically summarized its imaging fe.

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Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

DECEMBER 14, 2023

American society of Echocardiography (ASE) has produced this 20 page PDF document, which covers the entire field of echocardiography , in an Illustrative format. Hope, sharing this document here doesn’t violate any copyright issues. Take a print out, of this and stick in your lab (If you have space) for an Immersive experience.

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DAIC

JANUARY 31, 2024

Our group is proud of this document and the uniqueness of it.” Among the consensus document’s many takeaways, highlights include: Calcified coronary lesions are becoming commonplace in the cardiac catheterization lab, and their treatment is associated with increased short- and long-term risks compared to noncalcified lesions.

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American College of Cardiology

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In episode two of four, Dr. Tom Draper talks with Mr. Adam DeJong and Dr. Malissa Wood about efforts required in the development phase of a strategic plan document including evaluating current state performance, leveraging external data, and initiating feedback from key stakeholders.

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Heart BMJ

JUNE 17, 2024

Methods and results Electronic health records were reviewed and data on patient demographics, cardiac diagnoses, medication use and the content of documented discussions regarding PCC were recorded. PCC was documented in 10.3% Women were classified according to the modified WHO (mWHO) risk stratification system. in mWHO class I, 20.2%

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background:Since 2016, hospitals have been able to document International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) codes for National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS). NIHSS was documented in 40.1% NIHSS was documented for 52.9% of AIS admissions and by 62.5% of hospitals.

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Medicare Document Strokes Stroke 40

European Journal of Heart Failure

JANUARY 3, 2024

Abstract Document Reviewers: Rudolf A. These have been compiled in a report and simultaneously published in a supplementary document to the Focused Update. The report is also available on the ESC website www.escardio.org/guidelines See the European Heart Journal online for supplementary documents that include evidence tables.

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Heart Failure Document 65

American College of Cardiology

AUGUST 26, 2024

The following are key points to remember from a 2024 ACC/AHA clinical document on key data elements and definitions for social determinants of health (SDOH) in cardiology.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Previous observational studies have documented an inverse association of birthweight with myocardial infarction (MI) but a positive association with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the causality of these as.

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Myocardial Infarction Atrial Fibrillation Document Research 59

American College of Cardiology

AUGUST 26, 2024

The following are key points to remember from a 2024 multisociety appropriate use criteria (AUC) document for multimodality imaging in cardiovascular evaluation of patients undergoing nonemergent, noncardiac surgery.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

TABLE 1)Conclusions:Based on our analysis, nearly half of the admissions with documented CKD and ESRD did have diagnosis of Mitral stenosis. The prevalence of non rheumatic Mitral stenosis (MS) in the admission cohort was analyzed. The association between the conditions was statistically significant.

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Allied Health

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Recognize coding and reimbursement criteria in order to identify and capture relevant documentation elements efficiently. Summarize the necessary documentation and regulations relevant to critical care and cardiothoracic surgery E/M services for 2025. Discuss the 2025 changes to the E/M modifiers and guidelines. 

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