Conference Coverage

This channel highlights DAIC's coverage of numerous key cardiology and medical imaging conferences each year. These include ACC, AHA, ASE, ASNC, EuroPCR, ECR, HIMSS, HRS, RSNA, SCAI, SCCT, TCT, and VIVA.

The American Heart Association, the leading voluntary organization devoted to longer, healthier lives, recognizes structural racism as a major cause of poor health and premature death from heart disease and stroke

News | Heart Failure

Winning Scientific Research Announced for Heart Failure and Social/Structural Determinants of Health

July 15, 2022 — The American Heart Association, the leading voluntary organization devoted to longer, healthier lives ...

July 15, 2022

More than one in four pregnancy-related deaths (26.5%) in the U.S. are tied to poor heart health, especially among people of color, putting both parents-to-be and their babies at risk, according to the American Heart Association Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2022 Update.

News | Womens Cardiovascular Health

$20 Million Awarded for Research to Improve Outcomes in Pregnancy, Infant CVD Health

July 14, 2022 — More than one in four pregnancy-related deaths (26.5%) in the U.S. are tied to poor heart health ...

July 14, 2022

News | Cardiac Imaging

AvoMD Partners with the SCCT to bring guidelines to the point-of-care

July 14, 2022 – AvoMD, a next-generation application-based clinical decision support platform, is working with the ...

July 14, 2022

The authors analyzed data about 8,224 children who received cardiac transplants from January 1994 through September 2019. The data came from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), a national database of all organ transplants in the United States. The researchers adjusted their analyses for factors including age, sex, cognitive difficulties, insurance status, transplant year and the reason for heart transplant.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Study Finds Risk Disparity for Black Children Who Have Stroke After Heart Transplant

July 13, 2022 — Black children who underwent heart transplant surgery for the first time were more than three times as ...

July 13, 2022

Adults with abnormal heart metabolism are up to three times more likely to experience life-threatening arrhythmias (an irregular heart rhythm), and MRI techniques could be used to detect the condition and predict future sudden cardiac death (SCD),

News | Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Johns Hopkins Medicine Study: Abnormal Heart Metabolism May Predict Future Sudden Cardiac Death

July 13, 2022 — Adults with abnormal heart metabolism are up to three times more likely to experience life-threatening ...

July 13, 2022

July/August 2022 issue of Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology

Feature | Cardiovascular Business

DAIC's July/August Digital Edition is Now Available

View the July/August digital edition of Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC), including links to videos ...

July 13, 2022

News | SCCT

SCCT Names Finalists for Best Abstract and Canon Young Investigator Awards

July 13, 2022 — Ahead of its 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting, July 15 – 17 in Las Vegas, the Society of Cardiovascular ...

July 13, 2022

News | SCCT | SCCT

Developments in AIU, Plaque Assessment to be Showcased at SCCT2022

July 13, 2022 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has released an update on the device ...

July 13, 2022

A Multi-Disciplinary Group of MedTech Stakeholders Will Convene Just Before the Main Sessions of TCT 2022 to Provide Real-World Insight into Health Technology Advancements, Challenges, and Opportunities

News | TCT

CRF and Fogarty Innovation Launch the “TCT MedTech Innovation Forum”

July 12, 2022 — The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) and Fogarty Innovation announced today that they are ...

July 12, 2022

Pesticides and heavy metals in soil may have detrimental effects on the cardiovascular system, according to a review paper published today in Cardiovascular Research

News | Heart Failure

Scientists Warn of Links Between Soil Pollution and Heart Disease

July 12, 2022 — Pesticides and heavy metals in soil may have detrimental effects on the cardiovascular system, according ...

July 12, 2022

Smoking traditional or non-combustible cigarettes while wearing a surgical mask results in a two-fold rise in exhaled carbon monoxide and impaired blood vessel function compared to non-mask periods

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

Mask Wearing Amplifies Harms of Smoking

July 11, 2022 — Smoking traditional or non-combustible cigarettes while wearing a surgical mask results in a two-fold ...

July 12, 2022

News | PET-CT

Aetna Reverses Cardiac PET/CT Non-coverage Policy

July 11, 2022 – The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ...

July 11, 2022

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has released a new expert consensus document on Coronary Artery Disease

News | SCCT

CAD-RADS 2.0 Updates Reporting System for Coronary CTA Findings, Patient Management Recommendations

July 8, 2022 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has released a new expert consensus document on ...

July 08, 2022

News | Stents

Favorable Outcomes for Orsiro DES presented at EuroPCR in the Five-Year BIO-RESORT Small Vessels Subgroup Analysis

July 5, 2022 — A BIO-RESORT subgroup analysis of outcomes in small coronary vessels (<2,5mm) evaluated the efficacy and ...

July 05, 2022

First study to assess cardiovascular health in U.S. using American Heart Association’s new “Life’s Essential 8” metrics and scoring

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Under 30 Percent of U.S. Kids Have High Scores for Heart Health

July 1, 2022 — Most children and adolescents living in the U.S. have suboptimal scores for cardiovascular health (CVH) ...

July 01, 2022