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Providing Ethical Neonatal Cardiac Care
The complexities associated with neonates with cardiac disease require a collaborative and cohesive strategy. Shared decision-making, research ethics, and outcomes reporting are important considerations.
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Researchers Find Little Difference in Efficacy Between Top Heart Failure Treatments
In a head-to-head comparison of furosemide and torsemide, one diuretic was not significantly more efficacious than the other in improving heart failure survival rates.
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An Easy Measure of Potentially Harmful Salt Intake
Those who rarely or never added salt to their food and strongly adhered to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet exhibited the lowest incidence of subsequent cardiovascular disease.
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Is Chlorthalidone Superior to Hydrochlorothiazide for Treating Hypertension?
Randomly switching half of patients with hypertension on hydrochlorothiazide to chlorthalidone did not produce any difference in major cardiovascular outcomes.
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Ablation vs. Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation, Revisited
A three-year follow-up of EARLY-AF, a study of relatively young and healthy patients with recent atrial fibrillation, showed cryoablation remains superior to drug therapy for preventing the development of persistent atrial fibrillation.
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Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair for Functional Mitral Regurgitation
Researchers analyzed transcutaneous mitral valve repair in patients with moderate-to-severe or worse mitral valve regurgitation caused by cardiomyopathy and heart failure despite maximally tolerated guideline-directed medical therapy. Compared to medical therapy alone, undergoing repair resulted in fewer heart failure and other cardiovascular disease hospitalizations and significantly more time free of hospitalization and death.
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Does the Completeness of Coronary Revascularization Affect the Outcome of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement?
In this study of data from the REVASC TAVI registry, completeness of myocardial revascularization did not significantly affect the risk of all-cause mortality or the combined endpoint of death, stroke, myocardial infarction, or heart failure hospitalization at two years.
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Is AV Block Complete?
Does the ECG in the figure represent complete AV block? If not, why not?
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Is Screening for Atrial Fibrillation Cost Effective?
Self-screening for atrial fibrillation in elderly individuals could lead to lower stroke rates, prevent bleeding-related hospitalizations, and save money.
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Triglyceride-Lowering Therapy and Cardiovascular Events
Researchers studied pemafibrate vs. placebo in patients with type 2 diabetes, mild-to-moderate triglyceride elevations, and low levels of HDL and well-controlled LDL cholesterol. Despite a 31% reduction in triglyceride levels, there was no improvement in the risk of cardiovascular outcomes over a median follow-up of 3.4 years.