Left Ventricular Dysfunction

In a cohort of English youths, those who persisted smoking tobacco from childhood to early adulthood showed significant cardiac damage by age 24 years and potentially irreversible cardiac injury, a researcher reported.

Semaglutide was associated with improved HF symptoms and exercise capacity and reduced body weight and inflammation among patients with obesity across the range of HF with mildly reduced and preserved ejection fraction, a speaker reported.

Patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and those with HF and mildly reduced EF experienced similarly poor outcomes and mortality rates over 12 months follow-up after HF hospitalization, researchers reported.

NEW ORLEANS — In the STOP-CA trial, prophylactic atorvastatin therapy reduced the occurrence of anthracycline-associated left ventricular dysfunction at 12 months among patients who underwent treatment for Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Key risk factors that may predict severe disease in patients with MIS-C include fever greater than 103.1 degrees Fahrenheit, central nervous system involvement and left ventricular dysfunction, according to data published in Rheumatology.

In patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction, elevated left atrial stiffness was associated with increased risk for all-cause mortality and HF hospitalization, researchers reported.

In a cohort of patients with STEMI in India, reduced left ventricular ejection fraction was common and associated with mortality, and medication adherence at 1 year was low, researchers reported.

Patients with left ventricular outflow tract calcification who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement did not have elevated risk for poor short- and midterm clinical outcomes, according to new data from the SOLVE-TAVI trial.

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Applying artificial intelligence to an Apple Watch ECG can reliably and safely identify left ventricular dysfunction in a nonclinical setting, researchers reported in a proof-of-concept study.