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Study Finds Multimorbidity Dramatically Increases Mortality Risk in Heart Failure Patients with Mildly Reduced and Preserved Ejection Fraction
Added: 1 year ago Source:  Radcliffe CKM
A recent study published in Circulation: Heart Failure1 has found that multimorbidity, the presence of two or more chronic health conditions, substantially increases the risk of mortality in patients with heart failure who have mildly reduced (HFmrEF) or preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).The study analyzed data from two major heart failure trials: TOPCAT-Americas (Treatment of Preserved Cardiac… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions

Heart Failure
Renu Virmani
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Heart Failure
Job title: President and Medical Director
Personal History Dr Renu Virmani was born in 1943 in Pakistan. Her father was an industrialist of Delhi and Amritsar, India.2 As the youngest girl in a family of ten children, Dr Virmani was always driven to stand out and excel. Her aunt, who was a neurologist, was instrumental in forging her ambitions to pursue medicine. “I admired her and she showed me that women can do whatever they want… View more
Milton Packer
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Heart Failure
Job title: Distinguished Scholar in Cardiovascular Science
Personal History Dr Milton Packer was born to Polish immigrants in 1951 and raised in Philadelphia, US. Prior to studying medicine, he was politically active in the 1960s. In his words: “The focus of my upbringing was education, but the major guiding principle in my childhood years (and throughout my entire life) was an uncompromising sense of justice. I was always imbued with the need to… View more
GDMT & Outcomes in HFrEF: Physician-led Multicentre Experience from Sarawak
Author(s): Rebecca Su Li Chew , Bui Khiong Chung , Hwei Sung Ling , et al Added: 4 months ago

Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic

Guidelines & Statements
TR in HFpEF: Prognosis Varies by Mechanism
Added: 6 months ago Source:  Radcliffe Cardiology
A new study published in JACC has evaluated the prevalence and prognostic significance of secondary tricuspid regurgitation (STR) across the spectrum of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), finding that its presence is strongly associated with pulmonary vascular disease (PVD) and that different mechanisms of STR carry distinct prognoses.¹˒²This observational study analysed data… View more

Heart Failure
Acoramidis Reduces Cumulative CV Events in ATTR-CM
Added: 4 months ago Source:  Radcliffe Cardiology
Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is a progressive disease associated with a significant burden of recurrent cardiovascular (CV) events. A new post hoc analysis of the ATTRibute-CM trial suggests that acoramidis, an oral transthyretin (TTR) stabiliser, significantly reduces the cumulative burden of these outcomes.¹MethodologyThis exploratory analysis used data from the phase 3,… View more

Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic

Heart Failure
José Ramón González Juanatey
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Expertise

Heart Failure
Personal History Born in Noia and raised in Santiago de Compostela, Dr José Ramón González Juanatey is one of the most renowned cardiologists in Spain.4 Dr Juanatey is Head of the Cardiology and UCC Service of the Santiago de Compostela University Hospital Complex (CHUS) and Professor of Cardiology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC).3 Academic History Dr Juanatey… View more
Malnutrition and Prognosis in Elderly Patients with Chronic Heart Failure
Author(s): Mohammed El-Sheikh , Nora Olsen El Caidi , Aginsha Kandiah , et al Added: 8 months ago

Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic

Heart Failure
Jack WC Tan
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MI/ACS

Angiography

Peripheral Artery Disease - General

Intervention

 Job title: Head and Senior Consultant
Academic History Dr Jack Tan graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, the National University of Singapore in 1997. In 2007, he spent one year at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento with Dr John Laird to complete his peripheral vascular interventional program. He is doubly accredited for cardiology and intensive care medicine in Singapore. He is the deputy head of cardiology and director of the… View more
Dan G Halpern
Job title: MD
Personal History Dr Dan G. Halpern is a cardiologist based in the New York area. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the Medical Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at NYU Langone Health. “I have wanted to be a doctor since I was a child,” he says. Prior to becoming a physician, he served as a medic in the Army… View more