ACCEL Lite: Featured ACCEL Interviews on Exciting CV Research
Episodes
From JACC: HFpEF: Practical Guidance for Clinicians
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
About half of patients with chronic heart failure have an ejection fraction 40%. Therapy for patients in this group has been challenging until recent...
From JACC: Aortic Valve Calcium and the Long-Term Risk of Incident Severe AS
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aortic valve disease is often identified too late before clinicans can provide meaningful prevention. Identifying aortic valve calcium opens the ...
From JACC: Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Testing Following MI Hospitalization Among Medicare Beneficiaries
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a heart attack, it is important to lower cholesterol levels to prevent future heart attacks. Monitoring cholesterol levels on treatment is just...
JACC State-of-the-Art Review: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Perioperative Health Care Among Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode covers a review on disparities in cardiovascular perioperative health care. The writers propose actionable solutions utilizing multidisc...
From JACC: National Trends in Coronary Artery Disease Imaging: Associations With Health Care Outcomes and Costs
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cardiac imaging is increasingly used in the workup of coronary artery disease, with growth greatest for CCTA and with falling use of SPECT. Because o...
ACCEL Lite: Top Takeaways from the AFib Guidelines
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, José A. Joglar, MD, FACC, and Joseph E. Marine MD, MBA, FACC, discuss the top takeaways from the latest atrial fibrillation (AFib...
ACCEL Lite: From JACC: Return-to-Play for Elite Athletes With Genetic Heart Diseases Predisposing to Sudden Cardiac Death
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A study provides new data for patients with genetic heart disease (GHD) and exercise recommendations. For decades, those with GHD were excluded from ...
AHA Late-Breaker ARTESiA: Apixaban for the Prevention of Stroke in Patients With Subclinical AF
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Continuous cardiac monitoring detects brief, asymptomatic, heart rhythm abnormalities in one-third of older individuals and these symptoms are associ...
ACCEL Lite: Behind the ACC 2023 Guideline for Chronic CAD: Conversations and Controversies
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 2023 guideline provides an evidenced-based and patient-centered approach to management of patients with chronic coronary disease, considering soc...
ACCEL Lite: Top Takeaways from the ACC 2023 Guideline for Chronic CAD for the Practicing Clinician
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To improve our understanding of the basic principles in the treatment and management of patients with chronic heart disease, in this interview, Salim...
ACCEL Lite: Management of Worsening Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Patients with worsening heart failure are at an extraordinarily high risk for mortality and readmission. Early identification and optimal management ...
ACCEL Lite: AHA Late-Breaker: SELECT – Semaglutide and CV Outcomes in Patients with Overweight or Obesity Who Do Not Have Diabetes
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The SELECT trial extends findings from previous trials, which demonstrated cardiovascular benefit in diabetes mellitus (DM), to those without DM. In ...
ACCEL Lite: From JACC: Managing Patients with Moderate Aortic Stenosis
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this review, authors discuss how multimodality imaging can help to evaluate the left ventricular remodeling response and improve risk stratificati...