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Inari Medical has issued a recall and update to the instructions for use of its 30 mm thrombectomy catheter due to risk for injury and death from device entrapment and pulmonary emboli.

Adults assigned to an evening of binge drinking alcohol experienced elevations in heart rate and sympathetic transduction to blood pressure the following morning, researchers reported.

Two machine learning-based models using only medical record data had high accuracy in detecting individuals with and without pulmonary embolism at hospital admission, according to results published in Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Clinical outcomes after COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis were similar vs. myocarditis from COVID-19 infection, and events were fewer vs. conventional myocarditis, researcher reported.

Among patients who had cardiac surgery, men were more likely than women to have postoperative atrial fibrillation, but for those with postoperative AF, the mortality risk was greater in women, researchers reported.

Nanox announced its subsidiary, Nanox.AI, received FDA 510(k) clearance for its AI-powered coronary artery disease detection solution.

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Health care professionals treating patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension recommend individualized dosing and titration of oral selexipag, according to a poster presented at the International Pulmonary Hypertension Conference.

Depictions of acute MI in popular film are underrepresentative of women and patients from racial and ethnic minority groups, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Neighborhoods with higher socioeconomic disadvantage, particularly predominantly Black areas, had higher rates of hypertension and lower rates of BP treatment vs. less disadvantaged neighborhoods, researchers reported.