Cardiology Headline News

TORONTO — Children with high blood pressure are more likely to be at risk for a stroke, heart attack or other major cardiac event later in life, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

Patients with stroke history had significantly poorer CV prevention profiles compared with patients with history of MI, with pronounced disparities based on race and neighborhood deprivation status, according to study results.

Researchers have created a novel tool that predicts a person’s risk for cardiovascular complications after bone marrow transplantation.

In a first-in-human study, a new class of transcatheter heart valve demonstrated good safety and restored aortic blood flow to levels similar to a healthy aortic valve at 1 year, a speaker reported.

Use of advanced thrombolysis in the U.S. remains low and is prone to disparate use among women and Black patients presenting with pulmonary embolism, a speaker reported.

Acrochordons, also known as skin tags or fibroepithelial polyps, are correlated with metabolic disease and obesity in pediatric patients, according to a study.

ATLANTA — Among patients with lower socioeconomic status, interventions based on case management and financial incentives improved attendance at cardiac rehabilitation sessions, according to the results of the HeLP trial.

Gene therapy improved exercise capacity and blood flow and reduced chest pain occurrence and nitroglycerine use for patients with advanced ischemic heart disease, a speaker reported.

Patients not required to fast before cardiac catheterization reported higher overall postprocedural satisfaction with no periprocedural adverse events, a speaker reported.

ATLANTA — Intravascular ultrasound-guided PCI lowered risk for target vessel failure vs. an angiography-guided approach for patients with acute coronary syndrome, a speaker reported.