Ahmed Bennis MD 🫀 @drbennisahmed

Toward the Autonomous AI Doctor: Quantitative Benchmarking of an Autonomous Agentic AI Versus Board-Certified Clinicians in a Real World Setting A state-of-the-art multi-agent Al doctor (Doctronic) can autonomously and safely assess and provide an appropriately documented…

Arrhythmia burden, symptoms and quality of life in female and male endurance athletes with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: a multicentre cohort study in Norway, Australia and Belgium Although most athletes were still competing, more than half had troublesome symptoms. One-third…

Titin-related familial dilated cardiomyopathy: factors associated with disease onset Disease onset in TTNtv-associated familial DCM is dependent on individual patient context and is potentially modifiable by risk factor management and prophylactic therapeutic intervention.…

Evolving Paradigms and Future Frontiers In Heart Transplantation in the Modern Era: A State-of-Art Focus Review Heart transplantation is entering a transformative era, driven by scientific ingenuity and clinical innovation. Advances in organ preservation, donor utilization,…

Aspirin for primary prevention: time to reconcile discrepancies The reversible nature of most bleeding—except the rare intracranial haemorrhage, for which a 25% increase with aspirin has been estimated. Reversible bleeding has been so far inappropriately weighted similarly…

Do Patients with a Normal Ejection Fraction Still Need a Beta-Blocker After MI? In BETAMI-DANBLOCK, involving 5600 patients in Denmark and Norway, 95% of the beta-blocker group received long-acting metoprolol. During a 3.5-year median follow-up, incidence of the primary outcome…

Discordance in left ventricular assessment by CMR vs. echocardiography and potential impact on management of ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction CMR and echocardiography LV measurements were only modestly correlated in a population with ischaemic left ventricular systolic…

Decoding Bleeding Risks and Survival in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention on Antiplatelet Therapy Major bleeding events in patients with CAD on antiplatelet therapy significantly increase mortality risk, highlighting the need for careful risk management.…

Advancements in Pharmacotherapy for Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review Emerging agents, including GLP-1 receptor agonists, SGLT2i, nonsteroidal MRAs, and endothelin antagonists, demonstrate renoprotective effects by targeting diverse pathways, such as metabolic…

Once-Monthly Maridebart Cafraglutide for the Treatment of Obesity — A Phase 2 Trial In this phase 2 trial, once-monthly maridebart cafraglutide resulted in substantial weight reduction in participants with obesity with or without type 2 diabetes. @NEJM @CMichaelGibson…

Blood pressure-lowering efficacy of antihypertensive drugs and their combinations: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials These analyses provide robust estimates of the expected blood pressure-lowering effect for any…

A pipeline for developing deep learning prognostic prediction models in cardiac magnetic resonance image analysis Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional regression-based models, due to its ability to effectively analyse heterogeneous types of…

White Adipose Tissue in Obesity-Associated HFpEF: Insights From Mice and Humans Obesity is strongly linked to HFpEF, with obese HFpEF patients experiencing worse outcomes, including higher rates of heart failure hospitalizations and poorer patient-reported outcomes. Significant…

Dr. Walid Amara (Montfermeil University Hospital) welcomes Professor Ahmed Bennis (IBN ROCHD University Hospital, Casablanca) to discuss their key studies in heart failure, presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress: everything you need to know about the…

Aspirin in Patients with Chronic Coronary Syndrome Receiving Oral Anticoagulation Among patients with chronic coronary syndrome at high atherothrombotic risk who were receiving an oral anticoagulant, the addition of aspirin led to a higher risk of cardiovascular death,…

Long-Term Outcomes of the DanGer Shock Trial The results of the DanGer Shock trial showed that mechanical circulatory support with a microaxial flow pump led to a lower risk of death from any cause at 180 days than standard care alone among patients with STEMI complicated by…

Early Withdrawal of Aspirin after PCI in Acute Coronary Syndromes Among patients who had undergone successful PCI for acute coronary syndromes, potent P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy was not found to be noninferior to dual antiplatelet therapy with respect to a composite of death or…

Early Discontinuation of Aspirin after PCI in Low-Risk Acute Myocardial Infarction Among low-risk patients with acute myocardial infarction who had undergone early complete revascularization and had completed 1 month of dual antiplatelet therapy without complications,…

Home-Based Care for Hypertension in Rural South Africa In South Africa, home-based hypertension care led to a significantly lower mean systolic blood pressure at 6 months than standard, clinic-based care. @CMichaelGibson @DrMarthaGulati @hvanspall @iamritu @Hragy @NEJM…