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A 61-year-old man presenting with chest pain and the de Winter ECG pattern was found on emergency angiography to have proximal left circumflex artery occlusion rather than the classically associated LAD occlusion, representing only the second such case reported in the literature.

The Heart Failure Society of America released a scientific statement establishing diagnostic criteria and a treatment framework for heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction, a phenotypically heterogeneous group historically underrepresented in dedicated interventional trials.

Daily peppermint oil supplementation was associated with reduced systolic blood pressure and resting heart rate in a small placebo-controlled trial of adults with elevated or stage 1 hypertension.

Lerochol (lerodalcibep-liga), a once-monthly self-administered PCSK9 inhibitor, is now commercially available as adjunctive LDL-C-lowering therapy for adults with hypercholesterolemia, including heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.

A single-institution case series of 13 biopsy-proven hydroxychloroquine cardiomyopathy patients documented variable outcomes after drug cessation, ranging from full functional recovery to progression requiring advanced heart failure therapies.

A Swedish national cohort analysis linked bereavement to elevated incident cardiovascular disease risk before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the strongest pandemic-period association following partner loss.