Imaging News

The American Heart Association announced the conjoining of its Precision Medicine Platform and the digital data management infrastructure of Hitachi Vantara to improve the platform’s accessibility for health care research.

Excess pericardial fat volume was associated with higher risk for HF, especially HF with preserved ejection fraction, researchers reported.

In patients with COVID-19 who had an echocardiogram, analysis by artificial intelligence better predicted mortality than analysis by experts, according to the results of the WASE-COVID study.

Apixaban reduced valve thrombosis at 90 days after transcatheter aortic valve replacement, but there was no difference in ischemic outcomes at 1 year vs. standard care, according to data from the ATLANTIS 4D-CT substudy.

Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Nathaniel Reichek, MD, FAHA, FACC, a pioneer in the development and use of cardiac MRI, recently died, the Society for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance announced.

Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography during CABG was associated with lower odds of 30-day mortality, particularly among higher-risk patients, a speaker reported.

Neurohormonal blockade using candesartan and/or metoprolol for women undergoing treatment for early breast cancer was not significantly protective against minor long-term decline in left ventricular ejection fraction, a speaker reported.

Among adults who underwent brain imaging, moderate alcohol intake reduced stress-related brain signals, which may in part explain the link between moderate alcohol intake and reduced risk for major adverse CV events, a speaker reported.

Among hospitalized patients with COVID-19, those with reduced first-phase ejection fraction were more likely to die compared with patients with normal first-phase EF, researchers reported.

The 2021 American College of Cardiology Scientific Session will be held virtually from May 15 through 17 and will feature 25 late-breaking clinical trials, 17 featured clinical research presentations and numerous abstract presentations.