Epicardial Gene Therapy for Refractory Angina. The EXACT Phase 2 Trial. Improved Symptoms, Exercise Tolerance and Ischemia at 12months with VEGF Gene Therapy. A simultaneous publication with #SCAI2024 SCAI Now @faisalbakaeen #cardiotwitter #AHAJournals ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Mayo Clinic researchers’ new tool links #Alzheimers disease types to rate of cognitive decline newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/may… by Mayo Clinic

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Y’all have heard about how ~40% of 12-21yo are iron deficient but we found similar numbers in 15-54 yo in Canada.

Low income pts had the highest risk of anemia & lowest likelihood of having a ferritin checked.

Iron deficiency is a health equity issue. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Excited to share this manuscript on #atrialfibrillation in #ATTR #amyloidosis .🫀AF is common, is associated with a worse prognosis, but not independently of other risk factors. No impact on #tafamidis effectiveness.
JACC Journals Pablo Garcia-Pavia Margot Davis sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

TAVI is a great innovation, but the title of this editorial in NEJM on the one-year results of DEDICATE-DZHK6 trial is not good

1 yr is too soon to judge TAVI vs surg AVR (experts know that)

Another prob is making readers download a separate document to see COI

COI should be…

Agree completely with John Mandrola, MD. Additional issues:
1) DEDICATE-DZHK6 1 year events are too high !!! TAVR= 5.4% (1% in PARTNER 3) and SAVR= 10% (2.9% in P3). Data from Germany seems to do worse than other RCT (remember GARY registry?)

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As temperature rises, life conditions in Gaza worsen.

Displaced people have access to less than 1l of water per person per day for drinking, washing & bathing, against the 15l minimum according to Sphere Standards Standards.

Children pay the highest toll: we need a #CeasefireNow .

Palestinian released from Israeli prison describes beatings, sexual abuse and torture haaretz.com/israel-news/tw….

Rahat Warraich PhD Dominique Vervoort Patrick Myers AATS Mateo Marín-Cuartas Victor Dayan Faisal Bakaeen MD Rafa Sádaba 'Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science'
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… via David H. Freedman The article is 14 yrs old and is still evergreen!

'Do not read the text [when reading or reviewing an article] .. read the figures, tables, supplementary materials.'

Going through SYNTAX, FAME-3, FREEDOM, STICH, EXCEL, and more, Dr. David Taggart argues that #CABG cannot be beaten by stents & medicines for LM/MVD.

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'Israel is in violation of a White House directive requiring recipients of American military assistance to comply with international humanitarian law and permit the unimpeded delivery of U.S.-funded humanitarian support, USAID officials concluded.
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Long-term reliability of the phospholamban (PLN) p.(Arg14del) risk model in predicting major ventricular arrhythmia: a landmark study

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'We've heard lots of Israeli spokespeople over the last few days saying.. It's not true that people in Gaza are on the brink of starvation... are people on the brink of starvation?'

UNICEF spokesperson : 'YES'

Israel always lies. Always.

NHS doctors used haemophiliac children for reckless medical experiments. Many grieving families have never received a penny in compensation.