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Program directors will now receive Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits in the practice assessment category for quality improvement (QI) activities inherent to their roles, according to a recent announcement from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The approved proposal also includes a provision that grants program directors the authority to attest to faculty participation in program-related QI activities in order to receive MOC practice assessment credit. In order to streamline the MOC credit process, program directors will automatically receive credit through the ABIM FasTrack system. A modification will be made within the system to allow for annual attestation of faculty involvement in QI. Further, the ABIM emphasized that a mechanism is already in place to recognize different sponsors of QI activities for MOC credit, in order to include clinicians outside the training program and academic settings to whom the approved proposal may affect. The ABIM reports that while they continue to place importance on recognizing QI activities for MOC credits, diplomates will be held harmless if they do not report practice assessment MOC activities. In addition, ABIM diplomates who receive MOC credit as a result of this new process will not need to pay any additional fees to ABIM for the MOC points.
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Lower limb ischemia stemming from use of the Angio-Seal vascular closure device could be safely resolved with endovascular therapy, according to the experience of a high-volume center in China.
Such revascularization was successful for 32 out of 33 patients who had femoral artery stenosis and occlusion, Xiongjing Jiang, M.D., of Fuwai Hospital in Beijing, and colleagues reported.
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More than half of myocardial infarctions among HIV-infected patients were classified as type 2 myocardial infarctions that occurred in the setting of a mismatch between oxygen demand and supply, according to a longitudinal study.
Although estimates vary, the researchers said that type 2 myocardial infarctions account for a minority of myocardial infarctions in the general population.
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The inclusion of patients with cardiogenic shock in public reporting did not significantly affect risk-adjusted mortality rates by hospital or physician after PCI, according to recently published data. Currently, public reporting of risk-adjusted PCI mortality rates excludes patients with cardiogenic refractory shock and a subset of patients with anoxic brain injury. Some physicians, however, question whether these exclusions should also include patients with nonrefractory shock.
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Adults between the ages of 32 and 46 who have even a small amount of coronary artery calcium have an elevated risk of coronary heart disease events before they reach age 60, an analysis of the CARDIA study demonstrates. Moreover, all-cause mortality risk is higher in those with at least moderate amounts of calcium.
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Approximately one in five patients undergoing coronary angiography considers avoiding the drawbacks of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) to be the single most important factor when selecting a stent, new research shows.
In contrast, the desire to avoid repeat revascularization is the key consideration when selecting a stent for just 14.4 percent of patients undergoing angiography, while two-thirds place equal emphasis on avoiding future revascularizations and the drawbacks of DAPT.
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TCTMD
With no distinct advantage for carotid artery stenting (CAS) over carotid endarterectomy (CEA) — and today's availability of more aggressive medical therapy — it is unclear which approach to revascularization holds an edge, experts said at the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy 2017. But it may be that tweaking certain aspects of CAS devices tips the scales.
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