Cardiology

Mortality rates from heart disease and stroke rose 4.3 percent and 6.4 percent respectively in 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported March 23.

Researchers from Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai developed an artificial intelligence tool to predict patients' heart attack risk, the system said March 22.

Preethi Pirlamarla, MD, a cardiologist at Mount Sinai Queens in New York City, is back home after volunteering to provide care to refugees near the Ukraine-Poland border, ABC affiliate WABC reported March 22. 

Heart centers across the nation continue to reach milestones in the use of a variety of procedures. 

Kenneth Liao, MD, PhD, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Houston-based Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, performed his 300th robotic heart surgery in early March, the center said in an email to Becker's. 

The death rate for patients with a tear in a major artery coming out of the heart, known as aortic dissection, has been rising the past decade, especially among women and Black adults, a new study published in the Journal…

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital has selected Jeptha Curtis, MD, to serve as medical director of cardiac catheterization laboratories. He will also serve as director of coronary interventions for Yale New Haven Health System. 

Cheyenne (Wyo.) Regional Medical Center recently became the first in the state to use Shockwave technology in a calcified coronary plaque procedure, The Cheyenne Post reported March 20.

Beaumont, Texas-based Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital will begin offering a new test aimed at detecting heart attacks earlier in women, The Beaumont Enterprise reported March 16.

Routine mammograms typically used in breast cancer screenings may be able to predict postmenopasual women's risk for heart disease and strokes, a study published March 15 in Circulation found.