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🫀 Minimally invasive cardiac surgery may cost more upfront—but can it save money overall?
A review finds that high-volume, standardized programs may achieve cost neutrality or savings through shorter hospital stays and reduced resource use.
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#CardiacSurgery #HealthEconomics
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🫀 A Takotsubo mystery: what explains this angiographic change?
Coronary artery–left ventricular micro-fistulae were invisible during the acute phase, but reappeared after ventricular function recovered.
What could explain this finding?
#Takotsubo #Cardiology #CoronaryAngiography
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💡 Answer: Transient compression by stunned myocardium.
The author proposes that stunned myocardium may temporarily compress coronary artery–left ventricular micro-fistulae (CALVMF). These became visible again after left ventricular function recovered.
This remains a proposed mechanism based on case observations.
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Author: Shams Y-Hassan
Affiliation: Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital
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💓 Can quinidine help prevent ventricular arrhythmias in Brugada syndrome?
A review of 10 studies involving over 300 patients highlights the antiarrhythmic potential of quinidine and hydroquinidine, while gastrointestinal intolerance and limited drug availability remain key challenges.
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Authors:
George Bazoukis, Emmanouil Andreakis, Athanasios Saplaouras, Tong Liu, Gary Tse, Konstantinos P. Letsas @K_Letsas , Michael Efremidis @MEfraimidis , Adrian Baranchuk @adribaran.
Affiliations:
University of Nicosia Medical School
Larnaca General Hospital, State Health Services Organization
Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center
Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University
University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Queen’s University
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🫀 HCM is more than wall thickness.
What can we learn beyond echocardiography? ECG, CMR, cardiac CT, biomarkers and genetic testing each add another piece to the diagnostic picture.
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#HCM #Cardiology #CardiacImaging
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🫀 New Special Issue | Congenital Heart Disease Across the Lifespan
Explore advances in CHD diagnosis, imaging, interventions, and lifelong care.
Guest Editor: Pier Paolo Bassareo, MD, PhD
Submission deadline: 30 Nov 2027
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#CHD #Cardiology
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🫀 Q waves after STEMI: still a warning sign in the PCI era?
In 116 patients treated with timely PCI, 14% developed new pathological Q waves—but these were not associated with higher 1-year readmission.
Authors: Lihi Levi-Gofman, Shaul Atar, Gassan Moady
Affiliations:
Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel
Department of Cardiology, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel
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🫀 On VA-ECMO, reassuring lower-body oxygenation can mask hypoxemia in the brain and heart.
This review explores differential hypoxemia—and why circuit changes may matter more than simply increasing flow.
#ECMO #CriticalCare #CardiacSurgery
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📄 The Aortic Watershed Phenomenon and Differential Hypoxemia During Peripheral Venoarterial ECMO: A Scoping Review of Clinical and Experimental Evidence
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Authors: Amin Hasheminia, Seif Kotb, Adham Elsherbini @adham_sherbini, Léonie Girard, Yasir Abu-Omar, Yakov Elgudin, Aron Frederik Popov, Mohammad El Diasty @DrMohEldiasty
🏥 Affiliations:
1 McGill University
2 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
3 University of Toronto
4 University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland
5 Georg-August-University Goettingen
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🫀 Does ultrasound guidance make femoral venous access safer in interventional PE?
In 89 patients, US-guided puncture was linked to fewer vascular-access and bleeding complications.
#Cardiology #PulmonaryEmbolism #MedicalResearch
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📄 Non-Ultrasound-Guided Versus Ultrasound-Guided Femoral Venous Puncture in the Interventional Pulmonary Embolism Era: Does Ultrasound Guidance Improve Safety and Feasibility?
Authors: Abdelrahman Elhakim, Desouki Abdelatti, Mohamed Elhakim, Osama Bisht @Obisht, Ibrahim Yassin @DIbrahimyassin ,Mohamed A Mosaad, Ahmad M Hassaan, Peter W. Radke, Mohammed Saad
Affiliations:
Schoen Clinic Neustadt, Germany
University Wuppertal, Germany
The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia
Coswig Heart Center, Germany
Alazhar University, Egypt
Sana Klinikum Coburg, Germany
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Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine retweeted
A 68-year-old with severe degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR). Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) risk: low.
Would you offer:
A. Robotic mitral repair
B. Mini-thoracotomy repair
C. Full sternotomy repair
What would you choose? 👇
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📢 RCM is delighted to welcome Prof. Alexander H. Maass, MD, PhD, as a new Editorial Board Member!
Prof. Maass is an Internist and Cardiologist at the University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands. He trained at Bonn University, the University of Texas Houston, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York as a Friedrich Ebert scholar.
His clinical and research expertise covers pacemaker, ICD, CRT, sudden cardiac death, cardiomyopathies, cardiogenetics, and exercise.
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#RCM #EditorialBoard #Cardiology
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🫀 New Special Issue | Contemporary Management of Acute and Advanced Heart Failure
This Special Issue explores emerging strategies in acute and advanced heart failure, including risk stratification, novel therapies, cardiogenic shock management, mechanical circulatory support, and precision cardiovascular medicine.
Guest Editor: Andreas V. Xanthopoulos, MD, PhD
Submission deadline: 31 Aug 2027
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#HeartFailure #Cardiology #CardiovascularResearch
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We are pleased to share that 65 Editorial Board Members of Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine (RCM) were featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2026 list.
We are deeply grateful to our editorial board members for their dedication and expertise, and we sincerely thank our authors, reviewers, and readers for their continued support.🫀
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🫀 How early should SGLT2 inhibitors be started in acute heart failure?
A new review examines early in-hospital initiation after stabilization, highlighting potential benefits for decongestion, diuretic response, and early outcomes.
#HeartFailure #SGLT2i #Cardiology
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Early Initiation of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Efficacy, Safety, and Implementation in Stabilized Patients
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🫀 Can biomarkers sharpen HFpEF risk stratification?
A scoping review explores sST2 and Gal-3, highlighting their links with fibrosis, inflammation and poorer outcomes—and their potential as complementary biomarkers.
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👥 Authors: Konstantina Ntalekou, Panagiotis Iliakis, Nikitas Katsillis, Nikolaos Patsourakos, Dimitrios Tsiachris @DimitrisTsiachr , Dimitrios Farmakis, Polykarpos Christos Patsalis, Christina Chrysohoou @chrysohoou , Konstantinos Tsioufis
🏥 Affiliations:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & Hippokration General Hospital, Greece; Tzaneio General Hospital of Piraeus, Greece; Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; Attikon University Hospital, Greece.
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🫀 Metabolic health may influence AF outcomes after catheter ablation.
A systematic review and meta-analysis found that MASLD was associated with a higher risk of atrial fibrillation recurrence after catheter ablation.
Authors:
Panagiotis Theofilis @PTheofilis, Paschalis Karakasis @PaschalisKarak1, Panayotis K. Vlachakis @vlachpanos , Konstantinos Pamporis, Aikaterini Vordoni, Evangelos Oikonomou, Kyriakos Dimitriadis @KyriakosDimitr1, Gerasimos Siasos, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Dimitris Tousoulis
Affiliations:
“Hippokration” General Hospital of Athens, Greece
Ippokrateio General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece
Sotiria General Hospital, Greece
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#Cardiology #AtrialFibrillation #HeartHealth
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