Rohan Parikh Angina: Understanding Chest Pain and When to Act Chest discomfort can be frightening, but not all chest pain is a heart attack. One common type is angina, a warning sign that the heart muscle is not getting enough oxygen-rich blood, usually because ... 15-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh Lower, Sooner: The 2026 ACC/AHA Dyslipidemia Guideline Note for colleagues: this is a plain-language educational summary of a recently published guideline, prepared for a general audience. Please verify all figures against the primary JACC and Circulation... 15-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh Heart Failure: Spotting the Early Warning Signs Heart failure sounds frightening, but the name is a little misleading. It does not mean the heart has stopped or is about to stop. It means the heart is not pumping as strongly or as efficiently as it... 14-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh STEMI-DTU: LV Unloading in Anterior STEMI Without Shock Note for colleagues: this is a plain-language educational summary of a recently presented trial, prepared for a general audience. Please verify all figures against the primary JACC publication before ... 14-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh Cardiac Rehabilitation: Recovering Stronger After a Heart Event If you have had a heart attack, angioplasty or a stent, bypass surgery, or you are living with heart failure, recovery does not end when you leave the hospital. Cardiac rehabilitation, often simply ca... 12-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh ORBITA-CTO: Sham-Controlled Evidence for CTO PCI in Stable Angina For years, the benefit of opening a chronic total occlusion, or CTO, in stable patients has been debated: is the symptom relief real, or partly placebo? ORBITA-CTO, presented at ACC.26 and published i... 12-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh Sirolimus Drug-Coated Balloons vs Stents in De Novo Disease: The SELUTION DeNovo Message The leave-nothing-behind strategy in coronary intervention took a meaningful step forward this year. SELUTION DeNovo, a large multicentre, open-label, randomised all-comers trial (3,341 patients acros... 11-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh Atrial Fibrillation: Why an Irregular Heartbeat Deserves Your Attention Your heart normally beats in a steady, regular rhythm. In atrial fibrillation, often shortened to AFib, the upper chambers of the heart quiver instead of beating properly, so the heartbeat becomes fas... 11-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh Diabetes and Your Heart: What You Should Know Diabetes and heart disease are closely linked. Over time, high blood sugar can quietly damage blood vessels and the nerves that control the heart, making heart attack, stroke, and heart failure more l... 11-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh Finerenone in HFpEF/HFmrEF: The FINEARTS-HF Signal Heart failure with preserved or mildly reduced ejection fraction (LVEF 40% or above) has long lacked disease-modifying options beyond SGLT2 inhibitors. FINEARTS-HF adds a second evidence-based pillar:... 11-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh Understanding Cholesterol: What Your Numbers Mean for Your Heart Cholesterol is a fatty substance your body needs, but too much of the wrong kind can build up in your arteries and raise the risk of heart attack and stroke. Like high blood pressure, high cholesterol... 06-Jul-2026
Rohan Parikh PARTNER 3 at 7 Years: TAVR vs SAVR in Low-Risk Aortic Stenosis Long-term data from PARTNER 3 continue to mature. The 7-year outcomes of the low-risk randomised trial have now been reported (NEJM, 2026), extending follow-up of about 1,000 low-surgical-risk patient... 06-Jul-2026