Peripheral Artery Disease Linked to Higher Risk for Mortality Post-Kidney TransplantAmong kidney transplant recipients aged 65 years or older, peripheral artery disease was independently associated with an increased risk for mortality in the first year post-transplant. Chronological age was not independently associated with mortality overall, although recipients older than 75 years showed a trend towards a higher risk for mortality.
Role of routine surveillance stress testing in patients with or without imaging-guided or physiology-guided PCIThe analysis of the randomized study “Pragmatic Comparison of Symptomatic and Routine Stress Testing in High‑Risk Patients Who Underwent PCI” showed that the routine strategy of follow‑up functional testing 1 year after percutaneous coronary intervention does not reduce the risk of death, myocardial infarction, or hospitalization due to unstable angina within 2 years. At the same time, it more often leads to invasive coronary angiography and repeat revascularization without clinical benefit.
Intense Septal Enhancement on Cardiac MRI Flags Cardiac AmyloidosisA retrospective study showed that intensive gadolinium contrast enhancement of the anterior interatrial septum during cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, with a high degree of specificity (98%), makes it possible to diagnose cardiac amyloidosis when compared with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy.
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