Coronavirus (COVID-19)

This page contains medical information for clinicians on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19, also called 2019-nCoV, and now clinically SARS‐CoV‐2). This section includes articles that pertain to clinicians and cardiologists on the virus, new technologies being deployed to fight the virus and clinical information from various sources. Here are direct links for medical professionals to COVID-19 resources from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Daily world-wide statistics on the coronavirus outbreak are available from the WHO Situations Reports. Here is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs) for healthcare providers regarding Medicare payment for laboratory tests and other services related to the COVID-19.

News | Cardiac Imaging

June 15, 2021 — A cardiac MRI of athletes who had COVID-19 is seven times more effective in detecting inflammation of ...

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Image from the announcement of the Neal award winner of best technical content for DAIC's coverage of COVID-10 related to cardiology at the Neal virtual award ceremony June 9.
Feature | Cardiovascular Business

June 10, 2021 — Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) magazine has won a prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award for ...

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

June 7, 2021 — The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a significant toll on cardiovascular clinicians, many of whom provide ...

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Vaccinations appear to to be helping reduce COVID-19 virus positive case numbers, and a review of the U.S. COVID ...

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

DAIC's sister radiology magazine Imaging Technology News (ITN) has created a photo gallery that shows a variety of ...

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American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) offers 5 Strategies for Improving Your Nuclear Cardiology Lab in 2021
Feature | Nuclear Imaging | By Staff of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC)

A year after COVID-19 turned the world upside down, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) asked members how ...

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Blog | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Sometimes it takes a major shift is the world to see things differently. As editor of DAIC, I often wonder if the ...

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The WASE-COVID Study used the artificial intelligence automated echocardiogram reading software EchoGo-Core from Ultromics to evaluate ejection fraction and left ventricle longitudinal strain in COVID-19 patients to identify risk markers for mortality. The study also compared human vs. AI variability in assessing the exams. #ACC21 #ACC2021
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May 18, 2021 — Artificial intelligence (AI) derived heart measurements were able to predict COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) mortal ...

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May 18, 2021 — Dapagliflozin (Farxiga), a sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, did not significantly ...

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DAIC magazine won Overall Excellence Finalist/Multi-platform Package of the Year for its coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Toll on Cardiology, National. The entry won an honor mention for its coverage of the COVID pandemic. Dave Fornell is the editor of DAIC.
Feature | Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology DAIC | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) and its sister publication Imaging Technology News (ITN) recently took ...

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News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

May 13, 2021 — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just released a new statement relaxing the ...

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May 13, 2021 — Estimates of excess deaths, defined as the number of persons who have died from all causes, above the ...

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News | Artificial Intelligence

May 12, 2021 — HeartFlow, Inc., a leader in revolutionizing precision heartcare, today announced that the National ...

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News | Heart Failure

May 11, 2021 — Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 may be at risk of developing heart failure even if they do not have a ...

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Videos | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Payam Dehghani, M.D.,  FRCPC, FACC, FSCAI, co-director of Prairie Vascular Research and associate professor at the ...

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