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• ACC Health Equity Summit Focuses on Opportunities to Improve Health Care For All
  The ACC brought together leaders across cardiology, along with other critical stakeholders, for a Health Equity Summit on June 25 focused on building and sustaining adaptive and resilient health systems.
• DanGer Shock: Microaxial Flow Pump Beneficial in STEMI-CS Patients Undergoing Hemodynamic Monitoring
  The microaxial flow pump (mAFP) unloads the heart in STEMI-cardiogenic shock (CS) patients undergoing hemodynamic monitoring with a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) by reducing native cardiac output (CO), pulmonary pressures and left ventricular filling pressures...
• JACC: CardioOncology Expert Panel Recommends Equivalence Ratios For Some Chemotherapy Drugs Post Childhood Cancer
  Among anthracycline and anthraquinone agents, the risk of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD) after treatment for childhood cancer is lower with daunorubicin and higher with mitoxantrone compared with doxorubicin...
• Catheter Repair of Superior Sinus Venosus Defect Associated With Partial Anomalous Venous Drainage: A Promising Alternative to Surgery?
  Transcatheter repair of superior sinus venosus defects (SVDs) associated with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage of the right upper/middle pulmonary vein (RPV) has gained popularity in the last 10 years.
• Frailty Status and Mortality Risk in PCI; Delays in Treatment in STEMI; Arterial Events with Genetic-based Vascular Disease
  In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle looks at frailty status and increased risk of mortality in patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).