ACCEL Lite: Featured ACCEL Interviews on Exciting CV Research

Aortic valve disease is often identified too late before clinicans can provide meaningful prevention. 

Identifying aortic valve calcium opens the door for potential prevention of progression: a phenotype researchers could build randomized controlled trials around. 

In this interview, Richard A. Chazal MD, MACC...

After a heart attack, it is important to lower cholesterol levels to prevent future heart attacks. Monitoring cholesterol levels on treatment is just as important as monitoring blood pressure levels on treatment to make sure that the medicines are having the desired effect. 

In this interview, C. Noel Bairey Merz,...

This episode covers a review on disparities in cardiovascular perioperative health care. The writers propose actionable solutions utilizing multidisciplinary perspectives from cardiology, cardiac surgery, cardiothoracic anesthesiology, critical care, medical ethics, and health disparity experts. 

In this interview,

Cardiac imaging is increasingly used in the workup of coronary artery disease, with growth greatest for CCTA and with falling use of SPECT. Because of the low cost of computed tomography, this growing use of imaging has had only a small impact on cost of provision of diagnostic imaging in this population. 

In...