A multicenter quality improvement study, IMPLEMENT-HF, shows that a centralized virtual team make suggestions to treating clinicians about caring for hospitalized patients with HFrEF improved the use of guideline-concordant medical therapy.

Rani Zierath, Amil Shah, MD, MPH, and colleagues have published a novel finding that economic food insecurity is a risk factor for new-onset coronary heart disease and new-onset heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are the first to study the long-term trajectory of lung ultrasound findings after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). They conclude that quantification of B-lines could facilitate early detection, quantification, and monitoring of pulmonary congestion in AMI patients.

Behnood Bikdeli, MD, MS, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and team reported favorable longer-term catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) results for pulmonary embolism. In a randomized clinical trial, they observed a more durable effect of CDT plus anticoagulation than with anticoagulation monotherapy on several metrics.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a stretchable double-network hydrogel bioink system for microfluidic bioprinting of small-diameter vascular conduits. They say the conduits recapitulate the structural and biological functions of native blood vessels.

Cardiovascular experts from Brigham and Women’s Hospital will present their latest research and clinical advancements at this year’s American College of Cardiology Scientific Session & Expo on March 4 – 6, 2023, held virtually and in-person in New Orleans, LA.