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Latest in Cardiology from ACC.org
- ACC CardiaCast: What Clinicians May Be Missing: Overcoming Barriers to Aortic Stenosis DiagnosisThis episode is part of ACC’s ongoing initiative to review aortic stenosis care and its approach to screening and diagnosis. Drs. Wayne Batchelor and Sammy Elmariah review the barriers to aortic stenosis diagnosis.
- JACC: Advances Report Highlights Continued Sex Disparities in CV Clinical TrialsDespite longstanding inclusion policies to increase the enrollment of women in cardiovascular clinical trials, a brief report published Sept. 25 in JACC: Advances confirms that this disparity persists, with women representing only a third of patients in the late-breaking clinical trials (LBCTs) presented at ACC.26.
- Eagle’s Eye View: ACC/AHA Joint Perioperative Guidelines; Atenolol and MACE Risk; Yoga and VPCs; DECIPHER & CMRIn this week’s View, Dr. Eagle looks at how the most recent perioperative guideline published in 2024 remains valid and current.
- Racial, Ethnic and Place-Based Disparities in CVD Mortality in the USDespite sustained declines in overall cardiovascular disease mortality in the U.S., racial, ethnic and place-based disparities persist, with mortality varying far more across counties than states, according to a county-by-cause-by-population analysis published in JACC.
- Stellate Ganglion Block Reduces POAF After CABGPreemptive left stellate ganglion block (SGB) was associated with a reduced incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) within five postoperative days in patients undergoing CABG with cardiopulmonary bypass, according to results from a prospective controlled trial published Sept. 29 in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology.



