Yael L. Maxwell

While surgery leads to more early bleeds and overall bleeds, PCI patients have more postdischarge events through 5 years.

In total, 164 programs offered up 326 positions. Of the 290 candidates who applied, 272 secured one on match day.

The cardiovascular community continues to argue for long-term solutions, not merely short-term patches.

The findings could potentially enable patients to be identified and treated before symptoms of ATTR-CM emerge.

The findings hint at the potential need for serial measurements in patients who are being considered for Lp(a)-lowering therapies.

More work is needed to understand how to act preemptively on elevated heart failure risk, one researcher says.

While no impacts were seen on morbidity or mortality, the data provide evidence to the theory that “familiarity breeds success.”

With new data from several studies this year, researchers are chipping away at the question of when to revascularize and how.

Innovation, artificial intelligence, drug costs and shortages, private equity interests, and more left their mark in cardiology this year.

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