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Among women with Turner syndrome (TS), aortic dissection appears to be more correlated with the ascending aortic diameter (AAD) than with aortic size index (ASI), a new study has found. TS-specific z-score is also a reliable predictor of dissection.

Aortic annular size does not appear to have a major impact on valve haemodynamics, prosthesis-patient match (PPM), and mortality following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), according to the results of a Singapore study.

Currently in vogue, intermittent fasting (IF) – which switches between periods of eating and fasting – may not be as beneficial as many have thought.

In the treatment of patients with multivessel coronary artery disease, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with everolimus-eluting stents appears to yield similar outcomes in terms of the incidence of major adverse cardiac events, the composite safety endpoint, and all-cause mortality, according to the results of the BEST trial.

The use of a cooler dialysate during maintenance haemodialysis does not offer cardiovascular (CV) benefits to patients in the MyTEMP trial.

COVID-19 reinfection doubles the risk of death and triples the risk of hospitalization, with post-acute sequelae in the pulmonary and extra-pulmonary organ systems, in a new study.