Latest in Cardiology from ACC.org

• Eagle’s Eye View: Reducing Fat Can Lower Risk of Mortality and Stroke
  In this week’s View, Dr. Eagle evaluates the impacts that reducing saturated fat have on mortality, nonfatal myocardial infarction (NFMI), and stroke in high-risk individuals.
• ADJUST-DVT: Does Age-Adjusted D-Dimer Cutoff Better Rule Out DVT?
  The age-adjusted D-dimer cutoff may safely rule out suspected leg deep vein thrombosis (DVT), according to the multicenter, multinational ADJUST-DVT study published Jan. 5 in JAMA. D-dimer was associated with ruling out DVT in a larger number of patients.
• ACC Program Directors Survey: Are PDs Confident in Assessing Fellow Competence?
  Direct engagement by teaching faculty is crucial in assessing fellows and program directors (PDs) remain confident in assessing fellow competency and they are reluctant about moving towards purely competency-based medical education, according to results from the fifth iteration of ACC's Cardiovascular Program Director Survey...
• ACC CardioSurve: Implementation Gap in Inpatient Tobacco Cessation
  Most U.S. hospitals do not have tobacco cessation teams and most cardiologists do not assist patients in attempts to quit tobacco, with only one in five referring patients for tobacco cessation support, although it is critical posthospitalization, according to results of an ACC survey published Dec. 12, 2025, in JACC: Advances.
• Surgical Systemic Vein Turndown For Thoracic Duct Decompression in Fontan Patients With Protein-Losing Enteropathy: Role of Multimodality Imaging
  Fontan surgery for palliation of single-ventricle (SV) disease involves creation of a total cavopulmonary anastomosis, which results in an obligatory rise in central venous pressure.