Cleveland Clinic's 2019 innovations

Cleveland Clinic's 2019 innovations

MSN and JDN: time to study these

Dr KK Aggarwal

President CMAAO, HCFI and Past National President IMA

1.     Newer drugs for treating diastolic heart failure, heart failure with a normal pumping function of the heart but still with elevated pressure inside the heart so you feel short of breath.

2.      Bempedoic acid is a new medication that has the same advantages of statins but does not cause muscle-related problems

3.      Newer drugs to treat cardiac amyloidosis

4.      Parp inhibitors in ovarian cancers

5.     E new device that sends electrical signals to the spinal cord to ease chronic back pain.

6.      Biologics in orthopedic injury

7.      An antibiotic envelope to prevent pacemaker infections.

8.      A pill for children with severe peanut allergy.

9.      Less invasive repair of the heart's mitral valve

10.  A new osteoporosis drug designed to reduce the risk of life-altering fractures.