Surgeries & Interventions
December 11, 2025
CAD and Treating it With PCI has No Impact on TAVR December 11, 2025
New post-hoc results from SCOPE I suggest that patients who have obstructive coronary artery disease as well as symptomatic severe aortic stenosis have similar outcomes to patients without CAD three years after TAVR. The study also suggests performing PCI in parallel to TAVR provides no benefit to these patients. But does the presence of CAD […]
Cardiac Imaging
December 15, 2025
CathWorks FFRangio Goes Beyond Physiology December 15, 2025
Despite society guidelines and extensive clinical evidence demonstrating that traditional wire-based coronary physiology improves outcomes and reduces costs compared to angiography alone1-2, physiology continues to be disappointingly underutilized globally due to the inconvenience and time it adds to the procedure. The novel CathWorks FFRangio System combines artificial intelligence and advanced computational science to obtain physiologic […]
Obesity Care
December 8, 2025
Childhood Obesity CHD Risks Might Be Reversible December 8, 2025
Childhood obesity’s cardiovascular consequences might be reversible with timely intervention, after a Swedish study demonstrated that children who were overweight but achieved normal weight by young adulthood had similar coronary heart disease risk to their “never-overweight” peers. The BMI Epidemiology Study analysis linked health records to nationwide registries for 103k people in Sweden to track […]
