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This channel contains news about the American College of Cardiology (ACC), including coverage of its annual meeting and links to recently released practice guidelines. The ACC is a leading resource for cardiology professionals, including all its subspecialties. 

ACC issues document outlining COVID-19 Implications For Patients With Underlying Cardiovascular Conditions. The COVID-19 mortality rate for patients cardiovascular disease is 10.5 percent based of data from Chinese hospitals since the outbreak. COVID-19 fatality rates for patients with comorbidities are higher than the average population, but cardiac patients had the highest death rate. #COVID19 #coronavirus #2019nCoV #SARS‐CoV‐2
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March 9, 2020 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) is offering updates on the clinical impact of novel coronavirus ...

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ACC Cancels 2020 Conference Amid Coronavirus Concerns. #COVID19 #coronavirus #2019nCoV
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March 9, 2020 — Less than week after the American College of Cardiology (ACC) said it would push ahead with holding its ...

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October 8, 2019 — Douglas Drachman, M.D., FACC, has been selected as the next vice chair of the American College of ...

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

April 18, 2019 — A recent study found patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease cut their risk of a second ...

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News | Defibrillator Monitors

April 5, 2019 — Medical device startup HeartHero was the winner in the Innovation Challenge at the 2019 American College ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

April 3, 2019 – The ACC.19 late-breaking landmark Evolut Low Risk Trial compared the minimally invasive Evolut ...

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News | Heart Failure

March 29, 2019 — The cardiovascular benefits of the diabetes drug dapagliflozin extend across a wide spectrum of ...

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News | Pharmaceuticals

March 29, 2019 — Taking a high dose of icosapent ethyl significantly reduces the occurrence of first, subsequent and ...

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News | Heart Failure
March 27, 2019 —New data from a four-week extension of the landmark PIONEER-HF Trial showed the drug sacubitril ...
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SyncVision iFR Co-registration from Philips Healthcare maps pressure readings onto angiogram. Results from an international study presented at ACC 2019 indicates pressure readings obtained using iFR (instantaneous wave-free ratio, also referred to as instant wave-free ratio or instant flow reserve) in coronary arteries may localize stenoses that remain after interventions. FFR in the cath lab.
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The fingerprints of value-added medicine were all over products and works-in-progress on the exhibit floor of the annual ...
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Khaldoun Tarakji, M.D., MPH, staff physician in the Section of Electrophysiology and Pacing in the Robert and Suzanne ...

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Technology | Cardiovascular Education

March 26, 2019 — Level Ex, creators of medical video games for physicians, expanded into cardiology with the launch of ...

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