by Nicole Lou, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today August 16, 2022

Salt substitutes were associated with a reduced risk of heart attack, stroke, and death, according to a meta-analysis. (Heart)

The American College of Chest Physicians updates its guidelines on the perioperative management of patients who are on antithrombotics long-term and require an elective surgery. (CHEST)

Combined cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia genetic testing flagged cases that would have been missed with either test alone. (JAMA Cardiology)

Medication nonadherence had been observed in more than 25% of ISCHEMIA participants and about 15% of the MASTER DAPT cohort, possibly affecting trial results. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)

People undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) fared worse if they had coronary artery disease, though upfront angioplasty did not improve outcomes 5 years later. (JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions)

TAVR recipients with bicuspid anatomy tended to have worse preoperative left ventricular function and postoperative outcomes, suggesting a need for earlier intervention. (Circulation)

Different centers had different policies regarding TAVR patients with a documented Do Not Resuscitate order. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society)

Coroner says that an Australian Aboriginal teenager who died in prison from complications of rheumatic heart disease might still be alive if he had been taken to a cardiologist. (The Guardian)

FDA gave 510(k) clearance to the Echo:Prio app for computer-assisted echocardiographic analysis on Dyad Medical's Libby platform. (Mass Device)

Philips highlights a consensus group's earlier endorsement of intravascular ultrasound at various stages of arterial and venous lower extremity interventions.

Coronary CT angiography assessment of in-stent restenosis was aided by deep learning reconstruction and subtraction techniques, imagers found. (American Journal of Roentgenology)

Atrial cardiopathy was tied to dementia, mostly independently of atrial fibrillation or stroke. (Journal of the American Heart Association)

Targeted temperature management was associated with better neurological outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients resuscitated with higher epinephrine doses. (JAMA Network Open)

Machine learning algorithm can detect prediabetes and type 2 diabetes using ECG traces. (BMJ Innovations)

Might spironolactone exert anti-apoptotic effects in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction? (Circulation: Heart Failure)

Older people accumulate signature somatic mutations in cardiomyocytes that indicate oxidative DNA damage and failed DNA repair. (Nature Aging)

Nicole Lou is a reporter for MedPage Today, where she covers cardiology news and other developments in medicine. Follow

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