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May 05, 2021
When surgery is needed to correct residual or recurrent mitral regurgitation (MR) after transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER), chances are that the patient will need to have the valve replaced rather than repaired, shows a study using the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Adult Cardiac Surgery Database.
Of patients who had mitral surgery after TEER nearly all of which would have been done with the MitraClip (Abbott) during the study period only 4.8% underwent surgical repair rather than replacement, Joanna Chikwe, MD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA), reported during the virtual American Association for Thoracic Surgery 2021 meeting over the weekend.
A major study found that drinking diet soda and other sugar-free alternatives is just as bad as regular sweetened drinks.
Researchers suggest that those who consumed sugar-sweetened or artificially sweetened drinks were more likely to die young. The conclusion was drawn from the 1.2 million adults that patricipated in 14 studies.
Researchers of the said study also tracked some participants for more than 20 years, according to a Daily Mail report.
Consuming sugar-sweetened drinks was linked to a five percent increased risk of dying from any cause and a 13 percent higher risk of dying from heart disease. High consumption of both artificially sweetened beverages and sugar-sweetened beverages showed significant associations with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease mortality and all-cause mortality, Dr. Hongyi Li from Zhenzhou University in China, was quoted in a report.
May 4, 2021
But no increases in overall use of resources
The use of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin-T (hs-cTnT) assays significantly increased the number of diagnoses of myocardial injury and myocardial infarction (MI), especially in women and those with type 2 MI; however, apart from angiography, it did not increase the use of overall resources. In patients without increases in cTnT, researchers documented more ED discharges and less cardiac testing.
In the first study of its kind, Olatunde Ola, MD, MPH, of the Mayo Clinic Health System, La Crosse, Wisconsin, and colleagues assessed the transition from a contemporary cardiac troponin T (cTnT) assay that used an overall 99
Forbes)
Heart attack survivors saw no reduction in cardiovascular death and heart failure using sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto) compared with ramipril, Novartis said. More details on the PARADISE-MI trial are to be announced at the American College of Cardiology meeting later this month. (
FiercePharma)
Switching to high-sensitivity cardiac troponin testing in the emergency department was associated with more findings of myocardial injury and MI, but no overall increase in resource use (except angiography), a health system found in its Wisconsin hospitals. (
Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
Meanwhile, Roche listed new ways to use its cardiac troponin T and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide tests in identifying a person s cardiovascular risk.