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• Surgical Bailout During TAVR Declining, Yet Early Mortality Remains High
  The annual incidence of surgical bailout during TAVR is declining, but short-term mortality for patients who experience emergent complications remains high, according to new data published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions.
• ACC Releases New Guidance For Managing Resistant Hypertension
  A new 2026 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway focuses on “Optimizing Blood Pressure Care in Patients With Resistant Hypertension” and addresses implementation gaps not covered in the 2025 AHA/ACC/Multisociety High Blood Pressure Guideline.
• New Cardio Safe Initiative Aims to Advance Safer, More Respectful Clinical Care Environments
  ACC's new Cardio Safe initiative, launching this fall, will help cardiologists and cardiovascular professionals address patient- and visitor-initiated mistreatment while fostering safer, more respectful and psychologically secure clinical care environments.
• Editors' Corner | Mother Nature Does Not Offer a Free Lunch!
  It takes longer than we'd like to gain confidence in new percutaneous technology. Twenty years after Andreas Grüntzig's first coronary PTCA, we were still debating whether stents were good or bad. Now we're wondering about a return to balloons alone – albeit drug-coated. So it has been with left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO).
• Cover Story | Stroke Prevention in AFib: Defining the Role of LAAO
  Left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) has become the most performed structural heart procedure in the U.S., with an estimated >700,000 procedures completed to date and volumes climbing sharply every year.