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North America to account for larger share in atrial fibrillation market during 2022–2028; growth driven by rising geriatric population, increasing occurrence of cardiovascular diseases, high accessibility to advanced technologies, growing development of innovative and technologically advanced products, and increasing healthcare expenditure
A surgeon at a Los Angeles County public hospital performed an unneeded surgery on a Black patient after receiving payments from a medical device maker. The county allows its doctors to recruit patients for industry trials, but does little to monitor the research.
In patients with multi-vessel heart disease who have had a heart attack, immediate treatment with stents in all diseased arteries was found to be as safe and effective at one year of follow-up as staged treatment, according to findings from the first large, randomized trial to address this question that is being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together With the World Congress of Cardiology. In staged treatment, the blocked artery that caused the heart attack is treated with a stent immediately and other partially blocked arteries are treated in a second procedure up to six weeks later.