Year: 2024

LONDON — Simplified and more aggressive targets are among the significant changes to the updated hypertension guidelines released by the European Society of Cardiology. For most treated patients, the new systolic blood pressure goal is a target of 120 mm Hg to 129 mm Hg, which is a move away from the previous two-step recommendation.

LONDON — Updated guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation released by the European Society of Cardiology are revamping the approach to care for this complex, multifactorial disease. The identification and treatment of comorbidities and risk factors are the initial and central components of patient management, and are crucial for all other aspects of care

LONDON — Continuing oral anticoagulant drugs rather than briefly stopping them during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) failed to provide any benefits and, in fact, increased the risk for bleeding, report trial investigators. The randomized controlled POPular PAUSE TAVI trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress showed that patients randomly assigned to continuous

Spine plasticity is dependent on how many neighboring spines potentiate, the size and the spatial distribution of that “social network” determines the amount of plasticity each spine can have. Credit: Thomas Chater Researchers from Bonn and Japan have clarified how neighboring synapses coordinate their response to plasticity signals: Nerve cells in the brain receive thousands