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Treatment options for peripheral artery disease (PAD) are often underutilized, and a major limiting factor in PAD care is the ability to efficiently identify and screen at-risk patients. This article describes the creation of a PAD patient screening and clinician decision support tool to improve access to high-quality, evidence-based care to drive improved clinical outcomes.

The Strong Hearts program was designed as a secondary prevention program to help improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in the CVD population. This study evaluated the long-term efficacy of the program up to 2 years after program completion.

The purpose of this report is to highlight what is known about the long-term cardiovascular sequelae of COVID-19 and implications on the presurgical cardiac evaluation in an adult patient.

The objectives of this article are to review the pharmacotherapy guidelines for heart failure provided by the American College of Cardiology and offer an update on the current trials conducted on these agents.

The authors review the efficacy of aspirin, statins, colchicine, and IL-1 inhibitors in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events to provide clinical practitioners with evidence-based practice approaches and determine any unmet needs in their utilization.

Sudden cardiac death is a rare but tragic event that can occur in endurance sport athletes. The authors present a case of an otherwise healthy young male runner who collapsed during a marathon and could not be resuscitated despite aggressive measures.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the association of systolic blood pressure in the emergency department with stroke severity in patients with acute ischemic stroke.

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the Strong Hearts program (a 9-week structured intensive cardiac rehabilitation program) in cardiovascular patients following a major cardiovascular event.

The use of vena cava filters (VCF) is a common procedure utilized in the prevention of pulmonary embolism, yet VCFs have some significant and known complications, such as strut penetration and migration. This case describes a 66-year-old woman who was found to have a filter migration and the techniques that were utilized to remove this filter.

The authors present a rare case of a common skin commensal, Propionibacterium acnes, that infected the left upper lobe of the lung of a 57-year-old man.