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• Kidney Function Decline May Precede HF Event by up to 1 Year in HFrEF Patients
  In patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), kidney function decline may accelerate up to one year before a HF hospitalization or HF death, linking to symptomatic congestion, according to data from two clinical trials and a real-world study published July 30 in the European Heart Journal.
• Rethinking IABP in HF-CS: Insights From Altshock-2
  A 65-year-old woman with nonischemic cardiomyopathy on guideline-directed medical therapy presents with acute decompensated heart failure. While initially stable on standard therapy, she develops heart failure–associated cardiogenic shock (HF-CS) despite initiation of diuretics...
• ACCEL Lite: Why Are They Still Dyspneic? Post PE Syndrome Workup and Management
  In this interview, Drs. Dipti Itchhaporia and Paul R. Forfia discuss “Why Are They Still Dyspneic? Post PE Syndrome Workup and Management.”
• COMFORTS-II: Do Compression Socks Reduce Vasovagal Syncope Recurrence?
  Thigh-high lower limb elastic compression stockings (ECS) did not reduce cumulative vasovagal syncope (VVS) recurrence, change VVS-free survival or reduce the frequency of multiple VVS episodes in adults who had experienced two or more VVS, according to COMFORTS-II trial results published Aug. 4 in JACC.
• Outcomes of Physiologic vs. Anatomical Repair and Strategies For Left Ventricular Retraining in Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries
  Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) is defined by atrioventricular and ventricular-arterial discordance and is often associated with additional lesions, most commonly ventricular septal defect, pulmonary valve stenosis, and tricuspid valve abnormalities, as well as progressive atrioventricular block.