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June 09, 2021
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation is approved in the United States for low-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis, without an age threshold. As the authors of a new review point out, though, much is still unknown about how youth can impact outcomes and future options.
Low risk and younger age are categories that should not be conflated, they urge. “The pivotal TAVR trials in low-risk patients have, so far, demonstrated excellent clinical outcomes. However, these results should be extrapolated to younger patients with caution.”
Toby Rogers, MD, PhD (MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, and National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD), who led the paper along with Charan Yerasi, MD (MedStar Washington Hospital Center), stressed a similar point to TCTMD.
May 28, 2021
Cardiology, much like the world at large, has seen an awakening of awareness when it comes to sexual harassment in recent years. Now, a three-part series in
JACC: Case Reports is addressing how this misbehavior holds women and sometimes men back in the profession, as well as what can be done to turn the tide.
“Sexual harassment rears its ugly head every few years, sort of like racial injustice does, and we all get fired up about it and get upset,” Gina Lundberg, MD (Emory University, Atlanta, GA), told TCTMD. This energy translates into action that tends to wane, but soon enough another “egregious thing” restarts the cycle anew, she said.