Arrhythmia & EP News

• Acute Myocarditis a Possible Complication of Monkeypox A 31-year-old man with confirmed monkeypox developed acute myocarditis roughly 1 week after eruption of the characteristic skin lesions of the disease.
  Medscape Medical News, September 02, 2022
• World's First Transient Pacemaker 1 Step Closer to Clinical Use Dissolving pacemaker can now talk to wearable sensors, allowing healthcare providers to monitor it remotely using a smartphone or tablet.
  Medscape Medical News, September 01, 2022
• For Comatose OHCA, Higher Oxygen, BP Targets Not Better: BOX Outcomes in comatose patients who had survived an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were similar with a 'restrictive' vs a 'liberal' oxygenation strategy, or with a higher vs lower blood pressure target.
  Medscape Medical News, August 30, 2022
• ESC 2022 No Benefit of Routine Stress Test POST-PCI in High-Risk Patients New randomized trial results suggest routine functional testing provided no advantage on clinical outcomes over standard care among high-risk patients after intervention, suggesting 'less is more.'
  Medscape Medical News, August 28, 2022
• ESC 2022 COVID-19 Vaccine Safe in Patients With Heart Failure A case-control study in Denmark suggests not only that there should be no concern about cardiovascular side effects from mRNA vaccines in patients with HF but also that vaccines provide a survival benefit.
  Medscape Medical News, August 28, 2022
• ESC 2022 DANCAVAS Hints at Benefit from Comprehensive CV Screening Comprehensive cardiovascular screening fell short of significantly reducing all-cause mortality in men aged 65-74, but some benefits were seen in the whole group and for mortality in those younger than 70.
  Medscape Medical News, August 27, 2022
• ESC 2022 Cannabis for Pain Linked to Slight Risk for Arrhythmia Results of a case-control study showed a small increase in various arrhythmias in chronic pain patients given a medical cannabis prescription, although the absolute risk was small.
  Medscape Medical News, August 26, 2022
• Early Menopause Linked With Increased Risk of Heart Problems In a recent analysis of national health data, the risks for incident heart failure and incident atrial fibrillation increased as age at menopause decreased.
  Medscape Medical News, August 25, 2022
• Edoxaban 15 mg Curbs Stroke in Elderly With AF, Despite Frailty A subanalysis of ELDERCARE-AF suggests a very low 15-mg dose of edoxaban safely reduces stroke and systemic embolism in elderly patients with AF at high bleeding risk, regardless of frailty status.
  Medscape Medical News, August 24, 2022
• Our Wearable Future, Part 1: What Will New Tech Look Like? Prepare for a future where you and your patient track health markers 24/7, manage chronic conditions in real time, and predict incoming illness with precision from sensors worn on the skin and in clothing.
  WebMD Health News, August 24, 2022
• Multi-biomarker Risk Score Predicts Complex Revascularization The findings provide insight into the relationship between cardiovascular biomarkers, coronary anatomical complexity, and incident clinical events.
  Medscape Medical News, August 24, 2022
• Early AF Rhythm-Control Advantage Climbs With Comorbidity Burden Sicker patients in the EAST-AFNET4 trial showed a pronounced survival advantage from early rhythm control, compared with a rate-control-first approach, while those with fewer comorbidities missed out.
  Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2022
• Atrial Cardiopathy Linked to 35% Higher Dementia Risk The risk for dementia in people with atrial cardiopathy was increased even without atrial fibrillation or stroke, two known risk factors for dementia.
  Medscape Medical News, August 19, 2022
• Alert Class I Recall of Medtronic Cobalt, Crome Cardiac Devices The recall follows reports that some devices delivered reduced-energy electric shocks, triggering short-circuit protection alerts.
  News Alerts, August 19, 2022
• AHA Statement Outlines Symptoms of Common Heart Diseases Symptoms of six common cardiovascular diseases often overlap and vary over time and by sex, the AHA says in a new 'state of the science' compendium.
  Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2022
• 'Obesity Paradox' in AF Challenged as Mortality Climbs With BMI Mortality rose with body mass index in patients with new atrial fibrillation in a GARFIELD-AF analysis, which also examined BMI effects on bleeding with NOACs vs vitamin-K antagonists.
  Medscape Medical News, August 12, 2022
• Type of AF Among Predictors of DOAC Overdosing, Underdosing A fourth of patients received inappropriate doses of direct oral anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation in a prospective study, for reasons sometimes related to use or nonuse of certain other drugs.
  First Look, August 12, 2022
• Using Wearable Devices to Detect AF Is 'Cost Effective' Screening for atrial fibrillation using wrist-worn devices is cost-effective compared with no screening or screening for AF using traditional methods, a new study concludes.
  Medscape Medical News, August 08, 2022
• Treatments Explored to Ease ME/CFS and Long COVID Symptoms Most are already commercially available for other indications.
  Medscape Medical News, August 05, 2022
• NAFLD Linked With Increased Heart Failure Risk The risk appears to increase with greater liver disease severity, especially at higher fibrosis stages.
  Medscape Medical News, August 04, 2022