In Global News: Overlapping Surgery and CABG, Lung Cancer Screening at the Supermarket, and Reporting Device-Related Injuries [1]
Patient Care and General Interest
The American Heart Association has released a scientific statement summarizing emerging knowledge about sensitization after heart transplant [3].
The National Health Service England in the UK will place mobile scanning trucks in supermarket parking lots [4] to expand lung cancer screening of people who are at high risk of developing the disease.
Engineers from Rochester, New York, USA, have embedded sensors in a toilet seat [5], an innovation that they hope could improve daily cardiovascular monitoring for patients with heart failure.
Drugs and Devices
Kaiser Health News has released a report detailing a US Food and Drug Administration program that allowed device-related injuries and malfunctions to be reported in a repository that was not publicly available [6].
Innovative Cardiovascular Solutions, LLC, announced the beginning of the European feasibility study of the next-generation of its Emblok™ Embolic Protection System [7] for transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
Research, Trials, and Funding
Overlapping surgery is safe in most cases but it may increase poor outcomes for high-risk patients and patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting [8], report researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
A study from researchers at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, USA, suggests the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug celecoxib might worsen valve disease pathology [9], conflicting with previous findings that found the drug safe for heart patients.