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Americas Nobel for medicine recognizes three researchers who developed optical coherence imaging, now widely used in ophthalmology.

A planned new independent, self-governed certification process would supplant long-controversial MOC and establish cardiology as its own specialty.

Repurposing mirabegron, a drug used to treat overactive bladder disease, did not significantly change left ventricular mass index or diastolic function in pre–heart failure structural heart disease.

Myocardial performance index, a heart-function metric derived from echo findings, significantly boosted the ability to predict incident CVD, especially heart failure, in people with type 1 diabetes.

To date, the study is the largest to explore the relationship between severe psoriasis and coronary microvascular dysfunction.

Imaging catheters should be part of most coronary stent procedures and probably all complex cases, advocates say. Several new studies strengthen their case.

The two types of imaging catheter, as guides for coronary stent targeting and deployment, led to similar clinical outcomes in the OCTIVUS trial. A meta-analysis backed it up.

The new document helps rectify an occasional but familiar problem: the societys 2021 guideline was out of date almost as soon as it hit the presses.

The guideline task force says STEMI and non-ST elevation ACS represent a spectrum, and after the initial triage and management decisions, most of the remaining care follows a common pathway.

A short course of the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, anakinra, appeared safe but did not reduce complications of acute myocarditis in the ARAMIS trial.