The American College of Cardiology abandoned plans to have an in-person component to its meeting in May.
Bernard Lown, MD -- heart defibrillator inventor, pioneer in lifestyle medicine for cardiovascular disease, and peace activist -- died at 99 after suffering from congestive heart failure. (
AP)
JAMA Neurology)
Quality measures? Meh, say interventional cardiologists. Survey says feedback from case conferences and informal peer interactions are more useful. (
American Heart Journal)
After severe COVID-19 with elevated troponin, about a quarter of patients had what looked like myocarditis and about a quarter had infarcts or ischemia. (
European Heart Journal)
CT surveillance of abdominal aortic aneurysms smaller than 4.25 cm can be safely pushed to at least 2 years, analysis of randomized trial data suggested. (