Surgeries & Interventions
February 10, 2025
The Weekend Effect Touches TAVR Too February 10, 2025
It seems even interventional cardiologists aren’t immune to the “Weekend Effect” as a recent study suggests patients admitted on weekends for TAVR procedures face significantly higher risks. To uncover the weekend effect’s impact on TAVR, researchers analyzed over 82k TAVR hospitalizations between 2013 and 2021 and revealed that weekend patients faced a 45% higher risk […]
Imaging
February 7, 2025
Cardiology in the Spotlight: Enterprise Imaging That Goes Beyond Radiology February 7, 2025
The future of medical imaging is about connection. Today’s healthcare challenges demand platforms that unify radiology, cardiology, digital pathology, genomics, and beyond into a seamless enterprise ecosystem—moving past the era of standalone systems and isolated workflows. A complete enterprise imaging solution allows us to move closer to an improved multidisciplinary collaboration, and a more comprehensive […]
Cardiology Pharmaceuticals
February 6, 2025
PCSK9 Inhibitors: Sooner or Later? February 6, 2025
Sooner certainly seems to be better than later when it comes to treating LDL-C levels with the PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab, and according to a recent JACC study, that’s especially true for older patients. Putting age before beauty, researchers conducted a prespecified analysis of the FOURIER-OLE study and found that among roughly 6.6k patients, evolocumab reduced […]
