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- Steve Stiles
Publish date: January 28, 2022
Prevalences, nuances of presentation, and likely clinical course of myocarditis after use of some vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are in sharper view a...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: January 24, 2022
Certain holidays and mega sports events were linked to spikes in alcohol use and, separately, to acute bouts of new atrial fib that could represent...
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- Steve Stiles
Publish date: January 13, 2022
It was brilliant and courageous, ‘but it’s always in the implementation that we have to hold our breath,’ says a prominent specialist.
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- Steve Stiles
Publish date: January 11, 2022
It’s the first successful transplant of a genetically modified animal heart into a human, in this case a 57-year-old man with no other treatment op...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: January 10, 2022
Should myocarditis be a concern as mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are authorized in ever-younger age groups?
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: January 4, 2022
Injectable Inclisiran (Leqvio) is now indicated as an adjunct to maximal statins in adults with cardiovascular disease and patients with heterozygo...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: December 8, 2021
The association attached an ‘expression of concern’ to an abstract with controversial claims about the safety of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines that ...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: November 30, 2021
What if the cholesterol-crushing efficacy of current PCSK9 inhibitors came in a pill instead of a syringe? That’s one possibility for a Merck agent...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: November 19, 2021
Early in-hospital initiation of SGLT2 inhibitors “should be considered the new standard of care” in most patients with heart failure regardless of ...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: November 15, 2021
The study has limitations, but its results jibe with alcohol’s status as a potential trigger of AFib. Patients’ knowledge of their potential trigge...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: November 13, 2021
The findings potentially apply to TAVR as much as to surgical aortic valve replacement, say observers about the trial that compared early surgery t...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: November 11, 2021
Although progress in transcatheter mitral valve replacement has been slow compared with TAVR’s rapid ascent, its transition from a transapical to e...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: November 11, 2021
The company argued to skeptical advisors that upgrades to its AAA-repair system have already cut any potential endoleak risk, a long-running concer...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: November 5, 2021
PCI guided by FFR assessment may have yielded better outcomes in patients with less complex coronary anatomy, researchers say; others doubt the app...
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- Author:
- Steve Stiles
Publish date: November 2, 2021
“We believe that the document fails to provide unbiased guidance to health care professionals on the optimal evaluation of patients with chest pain...
