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- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: April 23, 2021
A prospective registry with more than 3,000 COVID-19–positive athletes shows incidence of cardiac involvement of less than 1% with no adverse cardi...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: March 25, 2021
Concordance between high-sensitivity troponin assays was only 37% for a single blood draw, rising to 75% with serial testing, but still changing ma...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: March 8, 2021
Heart failure terminology gets a landmark reno, with a new universal definition, revised stages of development an...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: March 5, 2021
Moms with poor cardiovascular health during pregnancy have children with more risk factors in early adolescence. The association is not causation b...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: February 26, 2021
Overall, incidence of AF/AFL and new onset AF/AFL was similar in COVID-19 vs. influenza. Mortality in those with arrhythmias also increased to a si...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: February 25, 2021
Two months after discharge, 54% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients with troponin elevation showed signs of myocardial injury on MRI, some of which w...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: February 3, 2021
A new autopsy series shows microthrombi and focal necrosis in hearts of patients who died of COVID-19. The findings support use of anticoagulation,...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: January 14, 2021
Two new papers quantify the impact of COVID-19 on patients with heart disease: more deaths, less disease testing or diagnosis. Experts suggest shut...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: December 31, 2020
In-hospital mortality was 24.2% for patients with HF hospitalized with COVID-19, as compared with 14.2% for indiv...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: December 31, 2020
Small study, but may provide insight regarding COVID-19 patients who experience acute STEMI.
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: December 27, 2020
Dataset provides reference standards to answer a question cardiologists face regularly: Is this heart ‘big good’ or ‘big bad?’ Norms are especially...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: December 25, 2020
Heart recipients are more vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection and should be referred for specialist care, according to transplant experts from North...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: November 18, 2020
An autopsy study shows myocarditis is uncommon, seen in only 14% of COVID-19 deaths, but macrophage infiltration is very common and might explain c...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: November 10, 2020
Diets high in foods that increase inflammation were associated with increased risk of heart disease and stroke, compared with those filled with ant...
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- Author:
- Debra L. Beck
Publish date: October 28, 2020
The new document was deemed essential because of the frequency, consequences, and heterogeneity of approaches to post-TAVR conduction disturbances....
