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• JACC Publishes Mini-Spotlight Issue on Updated ACHD Guideline
  The latest JACC mini-spotlight issue focuses on the new 2025 ACC/AHA/HRS/ISACHD/SCAI Guideline for the Management of Adults With Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD), which replaces and updates the 2018 recommendations for monitoring, counseling and treating ACHD.
• ACCEL Lite: OCEAN Trial: Antithrombotic Therapy after Successful Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
  In this interview, Thomas F. Deering MD, FACC and Atul Verma, MD FACC discuss the “OCEAN Trial: Antithrombotic Therapy after Successful Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation”.
• How Does Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution Impact CV Mortality, Hospital Admissions?
  Two studies recently published in JACC explore the relationship between short-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and cardiovascular mortality and the impact of long-term exposure to PM2.5 from wildfire smoke on hospitalizations due to cardiovascular disease.
• Cardiomyopathy Gene Variants Increase Risk of AFib
  The genetic variants that cause cardiomyopathy also increase the risk of atrial fibrillation (AFib), even in individuals without heart failure (HF) or overt ventricular disease, according to research published Feb. 18 in JACC.
• Management of Dyslipidemia in People Living With HIV: The REPRIEVE Paradigm in the 2025 ESC/EAS Guidelines Focused Update
  Globally, an estimated 40.8 million people are living with HIV (PWH). Advances in antiretroviral therapy (ART) have enabled PWH to achieve a near-normal life expectancy; however, individuals taking ART remain at approximately twofold higher risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) ...