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Has COURAGE been vindicated?
The ACC, the AHA, and a whole alphabet soup worth of other cardiovascular organizations (SCAI, STS, AATS, ASNC, ASE, HFSA SCCT) have published (or in some cases just endorsed) a report, called the...
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Guest Post: An Electrophysiologist Looks At The New HRS/ACCF Pacemaker...
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital...
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Industry PR Efforts Influence Debate On Cholesterol Screening Guidelines For...
Note: This post is accompanied by a separate guest post by James Stein. What role should industry play in discussions about guidelines, especially when the debate about those guidelines includes...
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Guest Post: Children Should Have Their Cholesterol Checked
Editor’s Note: CardioBrief is pleased to publish this guest post written by Samuel Gidding, the head of the cardiology division at the Nemours Cardiac Center at A. I. DuPont Hospital for Children and a...
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Updated Rhythm Device Guidelines Clarify And Expand CRT Criteria
A newly released update of 2008 guidelines for device-based therapy of cardiac arrhythmias contains some much-needed clarification about indications for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). The...
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Screening For AAA Comes Under Renewed Scrutiny And Criticism
A 2007 Medicare initiative to increase AAA (abdominal aortic aneurysm) screening in appropriate patients failed to prevent AAA rupture or reduce all-cause mortality, according to a new study published...
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Comprehensive Guidelines for Stable Ischemic Heart Disease Released
New comprehensive guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of stable ischemic heart disease have been released by the American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Task Force...
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New Guidelines Define State-of-the-Art STEMI Care
New guidelines published online today in Circulation and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology provide an efficient overview of the best treatments for STEMI patients. (Click here to...
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Hypertension And Cholesterol Guidelines Delayed Again As NHLBI Gets Out Of...
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will no longer issue guidelines, including the much-delayed and much-anticipated hypertension (JNC 8) and cholesterol (ATP IV) guidelines. Instead,...
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Observational Study Lends Support to CRT Guidelines
A large observational study published in JAMA suggests that patients with left bundle-branch block (LBBB) and longer QRS duration derive the most benefit from a cardiac resynchronization therapy...
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After Long Wait, Updated US Cardiovascular Guidelines Now Emphasize Risk...
Updated cardiovascular health guidelines were released today by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC). The guidelines are designed to provide primary care...
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Dispatch From The Wild Frontier Of The Statin Wars
The long simmering controversy over the relative benefits and harms of statins has heated to a high boil with the release of the new AHA/ACC US guidelines. But nowhere is the battle more intense right...
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Missing High Blood Pressure Guideline Turns Up In JAMA
After years of delay and many twists and turns, the hypertension guideline originally commissioned by the NIH has now finally been published in JAMA. The evidence-based document contains a major...
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Cardiology in 2013: Like A Wrecking Ball
Perhaps I’m being overdramatic but I think the best metaphor for the year in cardiology is Miley Cyrus on the wrecking ball. The Guidelines Wrecking Ball: Like Hannah Montana guidelines are supposed...
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Minority Report: Five Guideline Authors Reject Change In Blood Pressure Goal
It didn’t seem possible but the guideline situation just got even more confusing. Last December, after years of delay and other twists and turns, the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC 8)...
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Heart Societies Issue New Guidelines For Valve Disease
The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology today released new practice guidelines [PDF] for the management of patients with valvular heart disease (VHD). Among its most...
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12.8 Million More Adults Now Eligible For Statin Therapy
Millions more people are now eligible for statin therapy under the new cholesterol guideline, according to a new estimate published in the New England Journal of Medicine. … There have been many...
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Prophylactic ICDs Appear Effective In Less Severe HF Patients
ICDs are routinely implanted in heart failure patients with ejection fractions (EFs) of 35% and lower to prevent sudden cardiac death. However, the benefits in patients at the higher end of the...
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Dutch Investigation Finds Serious Flaws In Influential New England Journal Of...
Erasmus Medical Center says it has wrapped up its investigation of Don Poldermans, the disgraced cardiology researcher who was fired for research misconduct. The full extent of the misconduct has never...
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Guideline Critics Shift Attacks From Beta Blockers To Statins
With the release today of updated European and US guidelines the ongoing controversy regarding beta-blockers appears to be resolved. But that doesn’t necessarily mean there will be an outbreak of...
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