As part of ACC's ongoing involvement in the American Medical Association (AMA)/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) process, the College distributes RUC physician work surveys ...

Contact: Nicole Napoli, [email protected], WASHINGTON (Jun 20, 2025) - The American College of Cardiology has issued a Concise Clinical Guidance (CCG) document to aid clinicians in the use of medication ...

Contact: Olivia Walther, [email protected], WASHINGTON (Jun 23, 2025) - Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke may increase the risk of heart failure (HF), especially in older adults, women and ...

Given the varying causes of obesity and the wide range of physiological consequences with direct effects on cardiovascular risk factors, the ACC's newest Concise Clinical Guidance (CCG) report ...

A new ACC Scientific Statement addresses the management of obesity in adults with heart failure (HF), with a specific focus on those with stage 2 HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). It is the ...

A new multisociety expert consensus document (ECD) published in JACC addresses the evolving use of cardiac CT imaging and how to best use it to assess different types of prosthetic heart valve (PHV) ...

Two studies published in JACC on June 16 provide new insights on arterial events associated with heritable thoracic aortic disease (TAD) and the relative risk in patients with pathogenic variants (PVs ...

Among anthracycline and anthraquinone agents, the risk of cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD) after treatment for childhood cancer is lower with daunorubicin and higher with ...

In an effort to expand the collection of real-world data on patients undergoing renal denervation (RDN) across hospitals in the U.S., the ACC and the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes ...

The timely treatment of STEMI varies substantially at the hospital level, for both primary presentation and transfers, and worse outcomes were observed in patients when the first medical contact (FMC) ...

The microaxial flow pump (mAFP) unloads the heart in STEMI-cardiogenic shock (CS) patients undergoing hemodynamic monitoring with a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) by reducing native cardiac output ...

Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) did not reduce myocardial injury or other postoperative conditions among adult patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, according to results from the PRINCE trial ...