ACC
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.
Videos | Womens Cardiovascular Health | March 21, 2018
A discussion with Doreen DeFaria Yeh, M.D., associate director, Massachusetts General Hospital Adult Congenital Heart...
Image from presentation, "Inorganic Nitrite Delivery to Improve Exercise Capacity in HFpEF: The INDIE-HFpEF Trial," Borlaug
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — Four weeks of treatment with a novel inhaled medication failed to improve exercise capacity, daily...
Image from presentation, "1-Year outcomes of perioperative beta-blockade in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery," Devereaux
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — During the 12 months after undergoing noncardiac surgery, patients with or at risk for heart disease...
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An example of the new generation of inexpensive, wearable cardiac monitors that are seeing increased usage. This is the Cardiac Insight Cardea Solo device. After the monitoring period is over, the wearable patch is torn open to retrieve a data pod that is inserted into a reader to download the data. The software automatically creates reports based on the data, complete with waveforms for various cardiac measures.
Blog | Cardiac Diagnostics | May 10, 2018
The show floors at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2018 meeting in March and at the Heart Rhythm Society (...
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — Febuxostat, a gout drug that has been in use for nearly a decade, was found to significantly increase...
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — The anti-inflammatory drug canakinumab had no effect on rates of newly diagnosed diabetes in people...
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — Treatment with the blood-thinning drug dabigatran significantly reduced the risk of death, heart...
Image from presentation, "Statins Evaluation in Coronary Procedures and Revascularization," Berwanger
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — Getting a large dose of a statin did not have an impact on major adverse cardiac events among a broad...
Image from presentation, "Ticagrelor Versus Clopidogrel After Thrombolytic Therapy in Patients With St-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized Clinical Trial," Berwanger
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — Among people younger than 75 years who were given clot busters to treat a heart attack, taking the...
Image from presentation, "Affordability and Real-world Antiplatelet Treatment Effectiveness After Myocardial Infarction Study," Wang
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — When patients who had a heart attack were given vouchers to cover their co-payments for medication to...
Edwards Lifesciences received European CE mark clearance for its self-expanding Centera transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device for severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis patients at high risk of open-heart surgery. This was the top structural heart story of the month of February 2018.
Feature | March 20, 2018 | Dave Fornell
Here is the list of the most popular articles and videos on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC)...
Image from presentation, "The PHARMCLO Study," Diego Ardissino, M.D., F.A.C.C.
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — Patients with acute coronary syndrome experienced a substantially lower rate of heart attack, stroke,...
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — A pill combining low doses of three blood pressure-lowering medications significantly increased the...
Image from presentation, "A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Blood-Pressure Reduction in Black Barbershops," Victor et al
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — African-American men who received medical intervention aimed at controlling their high blood pressure...
News | ACC | March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018 — Among people with a type of hole in the heart, known as patent foramen ovale (PFO), those who received...
Videos | Congenital Heart | March 20, 2018
A discussion with Ami Bhatt, M.D., director of the adult congenital heart program and outpatient cardiology,...
