Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, today assumed the role of president of the American College of Cardiology. Mehran will serve a one-year term at the helm of the almost 60,000-member global cardiovascular ...

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) released three major guideline updates during ESC Congress 2026 related to cardiac rehabilitation, chronic kidney disease (CKD) and heart failure (HF). The ...

Pulmonary-artery denervation, in addition to guideline-directed medical therapy, resulted in fewer events of clinical worsening than medical therapy alone in patients with pulmonary hypertension ...

In the H-HeFT trial, conducted at multiple centers in Denmark as part of the broader DANHEART study, 592 patients were randomized to twice-daily hydralazine 37.5 mg plus isosorbide dinitrate 20 mg ...

In patients with left-sided infective endocarditis a clinical response-tailored antibiotic strategy shortened antibiotic duration by two weeks compared with standard therapy, with no major safety ...

In patients with acute, intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (PE), ultrasound-facilitated, catheter-directed fibrinolysis plus anticoagulation led to a lower risk of PE-related death, cardiopulmonary ...

In the ASPIRED trial, which was simultaneously published in NEJM, 14-day ambulatory ECG monitoring in patients with unexplained syncope after evaluation in the emergency department did not ...

Patients with symptomatic nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who were treated with aficamten vs. placebo saw significantly greater improvement in exercise capacity and self-reported ...

Silent atherosclerosis is detectable using imaging in early adulthood, with age- and sex-associated increases in prevalence across arterial territories and significant increases in plaque volume, ...

Interventional science was the focus of a Hot Line Session at ESC Congress 2026, with studies shedding light on milvexian with antiplatelet therapy following an acute coronary event; aspirin omission ...

A three-month direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) regimen shortly after successful TAVR substantially reduced hypoattenuated leaflet thickening (HALT) during treatment vs. single antiplatelet therapy ...

Older patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) for whom PCI was deferred until after TAVI had similar outcomes as those for whom it was not deferred, according to findings from the PRO-TAVI study ...