JCF Intersections
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The OA journal exploring heart failure and its intersection with different fields of medicine. Find out more: https://t.co/GD6nJxKTLI
Joined November 2024
Despite higher upfront costs, CABG + OMT emerged as the most cost-effective strategy —guiding smarter care decisions. Read more:
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With the prevalence of ischemic heart disease-induced heart failure (HF) reaching epidemic proportions, the augmentation of prognosis-modifying medical therapies with revascularization strategies has...
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💡 CABG or PCI? A new perspective on value in ischemic cardiomyopathy. A new #JCFIntersections study on cost-effectiveness analysis comparing CABG + OMT vs PCI + OMT is here. 🔗 Read in Journal of Cardiac Failure – Intersections: https://t.co/NpsE145Wuk
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This is a call to action for hospitals, payers, and policy-makers to close the evidence-to-practice gap. 🔗 Read more: https://t.co/UD8XS7dM2s
#HeartFailure #AFib #HealthEquity #QualityImprovement #JCFIntersections #AcademicMedicine
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an increasingly common and comorbid condition, with up to 6.1 million individuals in the United States carrying this diagnosis.1 The prevalence of heart failure (HF) in...
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📉 Key insights: 70% of patients discharged in AF rhythm Underuse of cardioversion, ablation, rehab Large racial disparities in AF/HF prevalence Opportunities for integrated care models.
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🔍 Despite increasing evidence for rhythm control and anticoagulation in patients with AF + HF, hospital-level care often falls short of guidelines.
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📢 Editorial Spotlight in JCF–Intersections: “Getting with the Guidelines: Improving Quality of Hospital Care in Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure” by Drs. Ifunanyachukwu Okwuosa, Enat Arega, and Utibe Essien. https://t.co/UD8XS7decU Read more 🧵
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🚀 Issue 2 is live! JCF-Intersections continues to explore how collaboration and diversity shape the future of heart failure care. 💡 Discover more: https://t.co/xq0JL95133
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Highlights: 🚺 Women often present sicker + receive ECMO later 🚫 Less likely to receive LV venting ⚖️ Despite this, survival = comparable to men 📈 Urgent need to address systemic inequities in shock care
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✨ Key editorial JCF–Intersections! “Sex Differences in Cardiogenic Shock Supported with VA-ECMO” Highlights in 🧵⬇️ 📖 Full editorial → https://t.co/xThAIem5nA
#Cardiology #HeartFailure #ECMO #WomenInMedicine #JCFIntersections
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🧬 Editorial highlight in JCF-Intersections: barriers + opportunities for TTR genetic testing in ATTR amyloidosis ➡️ Cascade testing + counseling are critical for early diagnosis + family care. Read here: https://t.co/r6YneJGNlU
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📊New study on how 🌍Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) & Social Deprivation Index (SDI) impact HF hospitalizations. 🏥Counties with higher social vulnerability & deprivation → ⬆️ HFH rates. SVI & SDI could help identify vulnerable populations! 🔗 https://t.co/Pt9hzjXV0z
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ICYMI: Feat. in JCF-I inaugural issue: Post-hoc AFFIRM analysis on assoc between AAD-based rhythm control and mortality risk in AF+HFpEF, despite improved sinus rhythm. ➡️Calls for modern trials w/ catheter ablation + GDMT. 🔗 https://t.co/RuTZHO2i6j
#HeartFailure #AFib #HFpEF
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🧬 Females had more favorable SAVE scores & less MI or VT/VF as indications 🩺 Lower creatinine + higher PAP in women 📉 RRT use: lower in females (p = 0.05) 📊 Similar 30-day mortality (69% M vs 71% F) #ECMO #CardiogenicShock #WomenInCardiology #CardioTwitter #MCS
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Do sex differences affect VA-ECMO outcomes in cardiogenic shock? This single-center study compared 244 patients and found: ⚠️In-hosp mort: no significant sex difference 💡Women had different shock etiologies & were less likely to need RRT 🧵More below⬇️ 🔗 https://t.co/VR4guCYBz0
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📉Editorial by Thomas & Flint supports intensivist staffing to improve survival in the CICU. 🧠Dual-trained cardiac intensivists = better outcomes. 📊Cites meta-analysis by Davoudi et al showing ↓ in-hospital mortality with high-intensity models.
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👨⚕️Modern CICU patients = critically ill, multisystem disease, high complexity. 🆕Read in JCF–Intersections 🔗 https://t.co/UGbmeuMcKg
#CardioTwitter #CriticalCare #CICU #CardiacIntensivist #JCFIntersections
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✔️ Trainee-led pragmatic RCT ✔️ Embedded in fellowship training ✔️ Culture of mentorship driving research + careers https://t.co/0KByuVppuk
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Designing, enrolling in and completing randomized clinical trials in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) are fraught with challenges that hinder progress in advancing patient care. Low recruitment...
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🚨 New in JCF–Intersections! How can we make trials in cardiogenic shock feasible & impactful? Our latest JCF–Intersections review highlights the DOREMI experience, showing how training programs + mentorship fuel pragmatic trainee-led trials in the CICU. Read more 👇
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🫀 New in JCF–Intersections: What’s the impact of staffing models in the CICU? 📊 Meta-analysis of 12,595 patients: ✔️ High-intensity models ↓ in-hospital mortality (OR 0.67) ✔️ Intensivist-led care ↓ mortality by 49% 🔗 https://t.co/qteVXFEsQv
#CriticalCare #HeartFailure
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We are excited to bring you the first issue of JCF-Intersections, where you will find important contributions that embrace and harness the concept of intersections within medicine in their own distinct and powerful ways. 🫀 Read the first issue here: https://t.co/c5PZ2ZH3nJ
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