Limited tablet cardiac ultrasound was found to represent an effective alternative to standard platform imaging for the screening of COVID-19-related cardiac conditions.
Nearly 1 in 4 patients with incident venous thromboembolism were found not to initiate prescribed anticoagulation therapy in the month following hospital discharge.
The presence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP) in adolescence accelerates the progression of risk factors that play a role in the development of early vascular aging.
Mortality rates in patients managed with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock were similar for acute type A aortic dissection vs surgeries for other conditions.
Ultrasound-guided percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty was found to be effective and to be associated with good clinical and echocardiographic short-term outcomes in patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis.
A machine learning algorithm developed based on computed tomography angiography imaging was found to be useful in predicting expansion of small abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Researchers assessed the clinical usefulness of specific biomarkers in risk stratification for vascular complications Identifying biomarkers that predict risk for pulmonary hypertension or ischemic digital lesions may be useful in monitoring the development of systemic sclerosis in patients.
The risk for peripheral artery disease events was found to be associated with levels of lipoprotein(a) in patients with recent acute coronary syndrome.
