Balloon Pump Warning; Afib Rhythm Control vs Dementia; Doc’s Sex Crime Charges

Due to continuing device issues, FDA advised against the use of Getinge’s Cardiosave Hybrid and Rescue intra-aortic balloon pump devices and its Cardiohelp system and HLS Sets for cardiopulmonary bypass.

Artificial intelligence-based cardiac MRI interpretation showed promise in a proof-of-concept study, even outperforming cardiologists in diagnosing pulmonary arterial hypertension. (Nature Medicine)

Have early-career interventional cardiologists been taking on too many high-risk, complex cases relative to their experience? (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)

Among heart attack patients older than 75, those at high bleeding risk fared better after physiology-guided complete revascularization for multivessel disease than with culprit-only revascularization, per a prespecified analysis of the FIRE trial. (JAMA Cardiology)

A parent’s early-onset myocardial infarction didn’t appear to carry over to high risk for the child in the absence of personal risk factors. (European Journal of Preventive Cardiology)

Risk prediction for heart failure and all-cause mortality improved with addition of routinely available cardiovascular biomarkers to conventional measures. (JAMA)

Inpatient diuretic practices for acute heart failure don’t appear to have improved much over the past 2 decades. (JACC: Heart Failure)

Just 54% of people prescribed sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto) were using it consistently, according to Medicare records from 2015 to 2018. (JACC: Advances)

For people with recent COVID-19 infections, sacubitril/valsartan did not improve cardiovascular biomarkers in a pilot randomized trial. (European Journal of Heart Failure)

One group proposed defining iron deficiency in heart failure by low transferrin saturation, not serum ferritin concentration. (Circulation)

Researchers suggest three mechanistic pathways leading to iron-deficient heart failure. (European Heart Journal)

Researchers found a long-term ischemic stroke risk after traumatic brain injury. (Stroke)

Stroke survivors with atrial fibrillation had a reduced risk of developing dementia if rhythm control therapy started soon after diagnosis, a Korean observational study suggested. (JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology)

Fixed-dose polypills for hypertension dropped to less than 10% usage by 2020 among Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. (Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes)

Eating an avocado a day did not translate into better vascular function in people with abdominal obesity. (Journal of the American Heart Association)

A study suggested a causal link between gut microbes and circulating lipids. (eBioMedicine)

A North Carolina cardiologist faces additional charges related to alleged child sex crimes and the possibility of life imprisonment. (WWAY3)

Mouse experiments suggested an age-dependent secondary population of platelets that form disproportionately big clots in older animals. (Cell)

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