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A Clinical Framework for Antithrombotic Review in Anticoagulated Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease: When Should Aspirin Be Stopped?

Gives you a structured way to decide when to drop aspirin in AF patients on OAC with stable CAD, cutting bleeding without added ischaemic risk.

Cardiology · Cureus · 18 Oct

Severe Right Ventricular Dilation Due to Selenium Deficiency in a Patient After Gastric Bypass

In post-bypass patients with new dyspnea or edema, check selenium before assuming irreversible cardiomyopathy — replacement can reverse the dilation.

Cardiology · Cureus · 17 Oct

Clinical Outcomes According to Revascularization Strategy in Patients With Late-Presenting ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Most Indian STEMI patients still present late; this cohort shows which revascularization strategy actually pays off when the 12-hour window has passed.

Cardiology · Cureus · 17 Oct

Health ministry asked to examine coronary stent safety concerns

If you implant Indian-made drug-eluting stents, know that three models withdrawn in Sri Lanka are now under ministry scrutiny for quality failures.

Cardiology · ETHealthworld · 15 Oct

Deep learning-enabled assessment of right ventricular size and function is associated with cardiovascular outcomes.

An AI model estimates RV size and systolic function from routine echo and tracks with outcomes, potentially reducing the operator dependence that makes RV assessment unreliable.

Cardiology · Nature cardiovascular research · 15 Oct

A multiview video-text model detects obstructive coronary stenosis and predicts 1-year cardiovascular events from angiography.

A model reading whole angiographic runs, not single frames, could standardise stenosis calls and flag patients heading for a 1-year event.

Cardiology · Nature cardiovascular research · 13 Oct

Development and Validation of an Adult Medical Urgency Score for US Donor Heart Allocation.

US-CRS had higher time-dependent AUC than the 6-status system (mean 0.807 vs 0.693). In match-run analysis (n=45 530 donor hearts), 67% of recipients moved down in rank order and first-candidate 6-week mortality rose from 11.2% to 15.7%.

Cardiology · JAMA · 12 Oct

Heart Transplant for Advanced Heart Failure: A Review.

Contemporary post-transplant survival is 91.5% at 1 year and 80.3% at 5 years; each additional 'I NEED HELP' criterion raised death or hospitalisation risk (adjusted HR 1.19, 95% CI 1.11-1.27).

Cardiology · JAMA · 12 Oct

Human adult and pediatric multimodal transcriptomic atlas of progression from pressure-loaded to failing right ventricle.

Maps the cell-level transition from pressure overload to RV failure, pointing to candidate pathways for a condition that currently has no targeted therapy.

Cardiology · Nature cardiovascular research · 9 Oct

Med-tech startup Sunfox Technologies raises $7 Mn in Series A round

A portable ECG platform reaching primary-care and rural clinics could shorten time to arrhythmia and ischemia diagnosis where access to a cardiologist is limited.

Cardiology · Entrackr · 7 Oct

Sunfox Technologies Bags $7 Mn To Scale Cardiac Diagnostics Platform Spandan

A portable ECG device scaled across Indian clinics could widen access to cardiac screening where cardiologists and ECG machines are scarce.

Cardiology · Inc42 · 7 Oct

iRhythm acquires VitalConnect in $237.5M all-cash deal

Consolidation of ambulatory ECG and multi-parameter monitoring vendors may change which patch or wearable your arrhythmia referrals are fitted with.

Cardiology · Fierce Healthcare · 5 Oct

All-fiber wireless auscultation garment for cardiopulmonary diagnostics.

The garment captured cardiopulmonary sounds and qualitative pathological features such as cardiac murmurs, S3 gallops and crackles, and suppressed environmental noise compared with a digital stethoscope.

Cardiology · Nature cardiovascular research · 1 Oct

Double Jeopardy: Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection and Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy

In women with acute coronary syndrome and no atherosclerotic culprit, consider SCAD and Takotsubo together; both are triggered by stress and management diverges.

Cardiology · Cureus · 1 Oct

Digital Twins and Offline Reinforcement Learning for Mechanical Circulatory Support Decisions: What the Current Evidence Can and Cannot Support

Offline RL and digital twins could eventually guide MCS escalation and weaning decisions, but this review shows current evidence cannot yet support clinical use.

Cardiology · Cureus · 30 Sept

Electrical Alternans as an Early Clue to a Rapidly Evolving Large Pericardial Effusion: The Role of Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Electrical alternans on ECG after pericarditis should prompt immediate bedside ultrasound, since tamponade can develop within days of a normal echocardiogram.

Cardiology · Cureus · 30 Sept

Pilot Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Simulation-Based Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Teaching for Final-Year Medical Students

Mean confidence was 9.86/15 post-session versus 3.67/15 pre-session (median 10 vs 4; U = 0.0, P < 0.001). Mean knowledge was 4.71/5 versus 4.22/5, with high baseline scores.

Cardiology · Cureus · 30 Sept

Postoperative Day 1 Mean Arterial Pressure and 30-Day Mortality or Day 7 Renal Replacement Therapy After Ventricular Assist Device Implantation

POD 1 MAP after VAD implantation may track with 30-day death or day-7 RRT, so early haemodynamic targets could affect renal and survival outcomes.

Cardiology · Cureus · 30 Sept

Hospital Indicators for the Management of Native and Prosthetic Valve Infective Endocarditis Across Brazilian Regions From 2015 to 2024

Native-valve: 13,920 admissions, 1,966 deaths (14.1 per 100). Prosthetic-valve: 6,610 admissions, 1,115 deaths (16.9 per 100). Death rates per 100,000 rose significantly in the Southeast and South for native-valve disease.

Cardiology · Cureus · 30 Sept

Factors Associated With Uncontrolled Blood Pressure and Its Association With Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality Among Adults Receiving Antihypertensive Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using NHANES 2013-2018 Linked Mortality Data

Uncontrolled BP affected 56.9%. Higher odds in other Hispanic (AOR 1.50, 95% CI 1.08-2.07), non-Hispanic Black (AOR 1.63, 95% CI 1.29-2.05) and non-Hispanic Asian adults (AOR 1.68, 95% CI 1.15-2.45). No significant mortality association.

Cardiology · Cureus · 29 Sept

Blue Toe Syndrome and Acute Kidney Injury Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Biopsy-Proven Case of Cholesterol Embolization Syndrome

Creatinine rose from baseline 1.2-1.5 mg/dL to 4.24 mg/dL about 2.5 months post-TAVR; biopsy showed cholesterol clefts in intrarenal arteries. Creatinine improved to approximately 3.1 mg/dL by discharge.

Cardiology · Cureus · 29 Sept

Severe Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Kidney Injury Following Rosuvastatin Reinitiation During Ticagrelor Therapy: A Case Report and Literature Review

CK and creatinine rose markedly with anuria and dark-red urine; creatinine reached 6.3 mg/dL, BUN 82 mg/dL, bicarbonate 15 mmol/L. Hemodialysis was required; creatinine fell to 1.3 mg/dL by week three.

Cardiology · Cureus · 29 Sept

Persistent Apical Akinesis Following Takotsubo Syndrome With Marked Troponin Elevation: A Case Report

Not all takotsubo wall-motion abnormalities resolve; persistent apical akinesis with high troponin can mimic infarction and warrants follow-up imaging before discharge.

Cardiology · Cureus · 29 Sept

Silent Aortic Disease Can Offer a Narrow Window to Save the Heart’s Own Valve

Aortic root aneurysms stay silent until late; referring earlier keeps patients eligible for valve-sparing David procedures instead of replacement and lifelong anticoagulation.

Cardiology · ETHealthworld · 29 Sept

Double-Vessel Involvement: A Case Report of Simultaneous Left Anterior Descending Artery (LAD) and Right Coronary Artery (RCA) Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Causing Acute Coronary Syndrome

Angiography confirmed spontaneous coronary artery dissection in both the left anterior descending artery and right coronary artery, with moderate ischemic cardiomyopathy, an apical clot, and subclavian artery occlusion suggesting vasculitis

Cardiology · Cureus · 29 Sept

Atrial Fibrillation in Tribal and Non-tribal Populations: A Comparative Analysis From Eastern India

Tribal AF patients in eastern India may differ in rheumatic vs cardiometabolic drivers and anticoagulation uptake, so check whether your tribal patients are being anticoagulated to the same standard.

Cardiology · Cureus · 29 Sept

Complete Heart Block in Young Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Case Report

In young SLE patients, screen for conduction disease with baseline ECG even without syncope, since complete heart block can be asymptomatic and need pacing.

Cardiology · Cureus · 28 Sept

Fat Emboli Entrapped in the Tricuspid Valve Chordae Following Autologous Fat Grafting: An Echocardiographic-Pathological Correlation

Fat embolism after lipofilling can cause cardiac arrest in healthy young patients; echocardiography showing tricuspid chordae entrapment may aid post-mortem and antemortem diagnosis.

Cardiology · Cureus · 28 Sept

Reverse Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Complicated by Neurogenic Pulmonary Edema in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Case Report

In aSAH, basal hypokinesis with apical sparing plus neurogenic pulmonary edema can mimic acute MI; recognise it to avoid inappropriate thrombolysis or angiography.

Cardiology · Cureus · 28 Sept

Diagnostic Challenges of Regional Cardiac Tamponade in a Severely Volume-Overloaded Dialysis Patient: The Role of Multimodality Imaging

In dialysis patients with unexplained tachycardia, regional tamponade can hide without classic echo signs; multimodality imaging is needed before attributing it to volume overload.

Cardiology · Cureus · 28 Sept

Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Myocardial Infarction With Non-obstructive Coronary Arteries Compared With Obstructive Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Tertiary-Centre Study

MINOCA was 2.9% of MIs. MINOCA patients were younger (52.1 vs 59.8 years; p=0.005) and more often presented as NSTEMI (51.4% vs 13.9%; p<0.001).

Cardiology · Cureus · 28 Sept

A metabolic-epigenetic switch governs multicellular cardiac repair following succinate dehydrogenase inhibition.

Malonate, an already-usable SDH inhibitor, drove multicellular repair after MI in animals; if replicated, it points to a metabolic route to cardiac regeneration.

Cardiology · Nature cardiovascular research · 28 Sept

Therapeutic upregulation of gene expression in inherited cardiomyopathies from current approaches to future directions.

For haploinsufficiency-driven cardiomyopathy, raising output from the remaining healthy allele is a plausible route to disease-modifying therapy rather than symptom control.

Cardiology · Nature cardiovascular research · 28 Sept

Prognostic Value of Conventional Echocardiographic Parameters of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in a Real-World Cohort of Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism

TAPSE, S' and RV FAC showed no correlation with PESI (p = 0.084, 0.235, 0.637) or mortality (p > 0.05). RV FAC <35% linked to PESI class (p = 0.026) but failed correction. Mortality 12.5%.

Cardiology · Cureus · 27 Sept

Large, Life-Threatening Right Ventricular and Pulmonary Artery Thrombus Revealing Antiphospholipid Syndrome: The Role of Risk Stratification and Thrombolytic Therapy

In intermediate-risk PE with a large right ventricular thrombus, risk stratification plus thrombolysis can avert sudden haemodynamic collapse, and antiphospholipid syndrome should be excluded.

Cardiology · Cureus · 27 Sept

Beyond Digoxin Toxicity: A Fatal Case of BRASH Syndrome Triggered by Community-Acquired Pneumonia

In a bradycardic, hyperkalaemic, shocked patient on AV nodal blockers, think BRASH syndrome — the fix is stopping the drug and correcting potassium, not pacing.

Cardiology · Cureus · 27 Sept

Ticagrelor-Induced Bradyarrhythmias in Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Case Series of Three Patients

All three developed high-grade AV block, asystole or cardiac arrest after ticagrelor; two recovered after switching to prasugrel, one needed a permanent pacemaker. Naranjo rated the association possible in each.

Cardiology · Cureus · 25 Sept

Redesigning cardiovascular medicine around sex differences.

Women's cardiovascular risk and presentation differ from men's; the evidence base you rely on was built mostly in men, so diagnostic thresholds and treatments may not fit your female patients.

Cardiology · Nature Medicine · 25 Sept

Cardiac proteomic and phosphoproteomic profiling defines clinically relevant molecular subgroups in human heart failure.

Etiology-stratified analyses showed convergence to a shared end-stage proteomic landscape, but unbiased proteome-based clustering identified two molecular subgroups with divergent fibrosis and immune infiltration; subgrouping proteins also predicted survival in an independent plasma cohort.

Cardiology · Nature cardiovascular research · 25 Sept

Diverse Clinical Spectrum of TTN-Truncation Variant Cardiomyopathy: A Case Series Illustrating Asymptomatic, Arrhythmic, Recurrent Takotsubo, and Inflammatory Phenotypes

Four cases: asymptomatic moderate LV systolic dysfunction found on screening; ventricular tachycardia storm needing multiple ablations and ICD shocks; two discrete takotsubo episodes; FDG-PET myocardial inflammation responding to corticosteroids

Cardiology · Cureus · 25 Sept