Apr 22, 2022 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Critiques of last week's comments on VT ablation and a review of EHRA presentations, including new ways to ablate atrial myocardium and pace the ventricle, are discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic
I – VT ablation
- VT Ablation After First ICD Shock Boosts Survival: PARTITA https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/971969
- Does Timing of Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation Affect Prognosis in Patients With an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator? Results From the Multicenter Randomized PARTITA Trial https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.059598
- Substrate Ablation vs Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Symptomatic Ventricular Tachycardia https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.01.050
- Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation versus Escalation of Antiarrhythmic Drugs https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1513614
II – Pulsed-Field Ablation
- Pulsed Field Ablation Treats AF With Few Complications https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/972147
- Pulsed Field Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (PersAFOne): Hope or Hype? https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.07.032
III – High-Power Short Duration Ablation
- Short, High-Power Ablation on Par With Standard AF Ablation https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/972087
IV – LBB-Area Pacing
- MELOS: LBB Area Pacing Promising for Bradyarrhythmias, HF https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/972270
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- Conduction System Pacing Noninferior to Biventricular Pacing for HF With Wide QRS https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/971740
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Transcript
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| 0:44.0 | Hi everyone this is John Mandrola from the heart dot org bedscape cardiology and |
| 0:49.2 | this is this week in cardiology for April 22nd 2022 this week This week I wanted to do a correction and some rebuttal on the VT Ablation story from last week. |
| 1:01.0 | European Heart Rhythm Association review, |
| 1:04.5 | including new ways to ablate atrial myocardium |
| 1:08.1 | and also new ways to pace the ventricle. |
| 1:12.1 | So let's first revisit the VT comments I made last week. If you |
| 1:16.1 | haven't listened, you might do that first. I misspoke slightly in my review of |
| 1:21.9 | the Partita study of early VT Ablation versus standard care after an ICD shock. |
| 1:28.0 | Partita found that VT Ablation reduced the primary end point of death or heart failure related |
| 1:33.8 | hospitalization. I criticize this study on many fronts and one was that |
| 1:39.2 | VT oblation improved overall mortality but did not really reduce VT. |
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