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ICMs detect serious arrhythmias in high-risk post-MI patients: SMART-MI
August 27, 2021
In patients with modestly reduced left ventricular ejection fraction after MI, implantable monitors detect many times more arrhythmias than usual care, the SMART-MI trial showed.
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EMPEROR-Preserved: Empagliflozin scores HFpEF breakthrough
August 27, 2021
Empagliflozin is the first treatment to produce an unequivocal, hard-endpoint benefit in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, a practice-changing result.
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SGLT2 inhibitor use rising in patients with DKD
August 23, 2021
Use of SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes rose sharply in 2019 and early 2020. GLP-1 RA use also showed recent gains.
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Empagliflozin gets HFrEF approval from FDA
August 19, 2021
The SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin (Jardiance) becomes the second agent from this class to get a heart failure indication regardless of diabetes status.
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Docs fight back after losing hospital privileges, patients, and income
August 10, 2021
Physicians in St. Louis lost their hospital privileges when the hospital entered into an exclusive contract with other physicians. They’re losing patients and money.
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Myocarditis tied to COVID-19 shots more common than reported?
August 6, 2021
Myocarditis may develop rapidly in younger people, mostly after the second dose, while pericarditis affects older adults after the first or second dose. Both remain rare, new results show.
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ESC heart failure guideline to integrate bounty of new meds
July 29, 2021
It has a simple answer to a seemingly complex issue: how to merge the newly approved with mainstay drug therapies. And it conditionally okays meds in a group long without guideline-directed options.
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Rising meth-related heart failure admissions a ‘crisis,’ costly for society
July 23, 2021
‘They’re not going to die from it overnight, but it will damage the heart slowly,’ a researcher said. Meth-related HF admissions exploded in the western United States over a recent decade.
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New details of myocarditis linked to COVID vaccines
July 2, 2021
Further details from multiple cases of myocarditis linked to the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID vaccines have been described in recent papers in the medical literature.
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FDA to add myocarditis warning to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
June 24, 2021
But a CDC advisory panel, where the FDA made the announcement, still strongly backs the vaccines’ benefits, which outweigh the rare risk for heart inflammation.
