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In September, Cardiology Today and Healio.com/Cardiology reported live from the Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting in Orlando. Cardiology Today compiled the top 5 most popular articles from this meeting.

From the vast news coverage, our readers were most interested in a study on the decline in salt taste sensitivity in patients with acute decompensated HF, results of the TACTICS-HF trial, the role of palliative HF care and much more.

1. Salt taste sensitivity declines with dietary changes in patients with acute decompensated HF

   Reduced salt taste sensitivity occurred among patients with acute decompensated HF who consumed a low-sodium diet during and after hospitalization. “This study provides the first evidence of the ‘hedonic shift’ of reduced salt taste sensitivity in [patients with acute decompensated HF] consuming a low-sodium diet during and following hospitalization,” according to the researchers. Read More

    

2. TACTICS-HF: Tolvaptan fails to improve congestion, worsens renal function in patients with acute HF

   The addition of tolvaptan to a standard furosemide regimen did not improve congestion at 24 hours in patients hospitalized with acute HF, according to data from a late-breaking clinical trial.  Read More

    

3. Palliative care intervention improves quality of life in patients with HF

   Patients with a high degree of residual symptom burden and mortality who were successfully enrolled in the Palliative Care trial experienced significant improvement in quality of life when a palliative care intervention was added to guideline-directed medical therapy.  Read More

    

4. Adaptive servo-ventilation may reduce atrial arrhythmia burden in patients with HF, sleep-disordered breathing

   In a substudy of CAT-HF, patients with HF, sleep-disordered breathing and an implantable cardiac device assigned adaptive servo-ventilation plus optimal medical therapy had a reduction in atrial fibrillation/atrial tachycardia burden vs. patients assigned optimal medical therapy alone. Read More

    

5. CV risk factors, HF increased in patients with polymyositis, dermatomyositis

         Marked increases in CV risk factors and HF incidence were common in patients with polymyositis and dermatomyositis, according to a poster presentation. Read more