Cardiology

Stopping beta-blockers years after myocardial infarction was non-inferior to continued treatment in stable patients.

Continuous urine output monitoring achieved near perfect agreement with gold standard measurements and significantly outperformed visual inspection in patients recovering from CABG surgery.

Machine learning analysis found that sleep-stage dynamics can identify sleep-disordered breathing and predict long-term cardiovascular risk, with rare sleep transitions emerging as potential biomarkers.

Most patients with coronary heart disease across Europe are missing recommended prevention targets, with major gaps in risk-factor control and cardiac rehabilitation.

A review highlights how ex vivo cardiac simulators can reproduce patient haemodynamics, supporting personalised treatment planning, surgical training, medical device development, and future AI driven cardiovascular care.

An exploratory study found that abdominal and thoracic deep inspiration breath hold produced similar heart and lung radiation doses.

A nationwide study of more than 49,000 patients found clopidogrel monotherapy after PCI reduced ischaemic events and myocardial infarction risk.

A randomised trial found that specialist referral improved cardiovascular risk-factor control in patients with prostate cancer, particularly cholesterol, but did not reduce major cardiovascular events.