Conference Coverage

This channel highlights DAIC's coverage of numerous key cardiology and medical imaging conferences each year. These include ACC, AHA, ASE, ASNC, EuroPCR, ECR, HIMSS, HRS, RSNA, SCAI, SCCT, TCT, and VIVA.

Salim Virani, MD, PhD, staff cardiologist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, vice provost for research and professor at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, and staff at The Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of Medicine.

News | Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

Targeted Reminders Increase Prescriptions for High-Intensity Statins

March 5, 2023 — Patients with cardiovascular disease, such as heart disease, stroke or peripheral arterial disease, were ...

March 05, 2023

Tor Biering-Sørensen, MD, MSc, MPH, PhD, professor, Center for Translational Cardiology and Pragmatic Randomized Trials, Copenhagen University Hospital,

News | ACC

Linking Flu Vaccination to Potential Cardiovascular Benefits Gets More People to Roll Up Their Sleeves

March 5, 2023 — Making a connection between the flu and the risk of subsequent heart problems significantly increased fl ...

March 05, 2023

Amrita Mukhopadhyay, MD, cardiologist and clinical investigator at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City

News | Heart Failure

Prescribing of Key Heart Failure Medications Improved with Tailored Digital Alerts

March 5, 2023 — Doctors who received customized electronic health record (EHR) alerts for specific patients were 2.5 ...

March 05, 2023

John K. Forrest, MD, director of interventional cardiology and structural heart disease at Yale University School of Medicine

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

Benefits of TAVR Remain Consistent in Patients at Low Surgical Risk at Three Years

March 5, 2023 — The number of deaths and disabling strokes among patients at low surgical risk who were treated with tra ...

March 05, 2023

Nearly 40% risk reduction seen with intravascular imaging compared with angiography alone

News | Intravascular Imaging

Stenting With Close Look Inside Blood Vessel Improves Outcomes in Patients with Complex Coronary Artery Disease

March 5, 2023 — Patients with complex coronary artery disease who underwent a stenting procedure guided by intravascular ...

March 05, 2023

In patients with multi-vessel heart disease who have had a heart attack, immediate treatment with stents in all diseased arteries was found to be as safe and effective at one year of follow-up as staged treatment, according to findings from the first large, randomized trial to address this question that is being presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session Together With the World Congress of Cardiology.

News | Stents

Immediate Complete Revascularization as Safe and Effective as Staged Procedure in Treating Multi-Vessel Disease

March 5, 2023 — In patients with multi-vessel heart disease who have had a heart attack, immediate treatment with stents ...

March 05, 2023

COAPT trial demonstrates long-term benefits of transcatheter procedure in high-risk patients with heart failure

News | Structural Heart

Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair Reduces Hospitalizations and Deaths

March 5, 2023 — In patients with heart failure and a poorly functioning heart valve, a minimally invasive procedure ...

March 05, 2023

Newer technique is equally safe and effective when performed by experienced surgeons, according to investigators

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

March 5, 2023 — In the largest randomized trial conducted to compare minimally invasive and conventional cardiac ...

March 05, 2023

The Opening Showcase of the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together with the World Congress of Cardiology, ACC.23/WCC, featured comments from Ed Fry, MD, ACC President, shown here, the event Chair and World Heart Federation President. the 3-day global gathering of cardiologists is taking place March 4-6 in New Orleans, LA.

Feature | ACC | Christine Book

Important Clinical Trial Outcomes, the Evolution of Cardiac ICU and Young Authors Take Center Stage for Global Gathering of Cardiologists in New Orleans ACC.23/WCC

March 4, 2023 — Of the immense volume of valuable information offered and exchanged during the first day of the American ...

March 04, 2023

News | ACC

STOP-CA Clinical Trial Finds Statins Lower Rate of Heart Decline in Lymphoma Patients, Late-Breaking ACC23 Clinical Trial Reports

March 4, 2023 — The impact of statin use to prevent heart damage during a cancer patient’s chemotherapy was in focus ...

March 04, 2023

News | ACC

TRILUMINATE Pivotal Trial Findings Reported at ACC.23/WCC Reveal Impact of Improved Tricuspid Valve Functioning

March 4, 2023 — Findings from the TRILUMINATE Pivotal Trial found no significant difference in survival or ...

March 04, 2023

Statistically significant reduction in the risk for the primary outcome on Day 27

News | Heart Failure

New Analyses of Sotagliflozin Showing Time to Clinical Benefit Presented at ACC23

March 4, 2023 - Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced new analyses of results from the SOLOIST-WHF Phase 3 outcomes ...

March 04, 2023

Viz.ai’s AI-powered clinical research platform will be used to find, screen and enroll patients in a landmark study of catheter-directed therapy for pulmonary embolism

News | Artificial Intelligence

Viz.ai to Expedite Patient Enrollment in NIH-funded PE-TRACT Clinical Trial

March 4, 2023 — Viz.ai, a leader in AI-powered disease detection and care coordination, announced it will use its VizTM ...

March 04, 2023

News | ACC

CLEAR Trial Reported at ACC23 Finds Bempedoic Acid Lowers LDL Cholesterol, Reduces Risk of Serious Cardiovascular Outcomes in Statin-Intolerant Patients

March 4, 2023 — The cholesterol-lowering drug bempedoic acid was found to reduce the combined rate of major adverse ...

March 04, 2023

Late-breaking data presented at American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions (ACC.23) and simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate TriClip was superior to medical therapy with significant improvements in quality of life and tricuspid regurgitation (TR)

News | Structural Heart

New Data Show Superiority of Abbott's TriClip Device Compared to Medical Therapy for Tricuspid Regurgitation

March 4, 2023 — Abbott announced late-breaking data for the TriClip transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) system, a ...

March 04, 2023