Apr 30, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
Medscape Podcasts
4.9 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19 and global vaccinations, AF screening, conduction-system pacing, FDA ban on menthol tobacco, and a heartfelt essay are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic
COVID-19
Indians Rush for COVID-19 Vaccines as Death Toll Passes 200,000 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/950095
- Vaccine Breakthrough Infections with SARS-CoV-2 Variants https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2105000
AF Screening:
Modest Clinical Gain for AF Screening of Asymptomatic Elderly: STROKESTOP https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/949950
- Mass Screening for Untreated Atrial Fibrillation
The STROKESTOP Study https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.014343
- Does screening for disease save lives in asymptomatic adults? Systematic review of meta-analyses and randomized trials https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25596211/
- Toward evidence-based medical statistics. 2: The Bayes factor https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10383350
Conduction System Pacing
Keeping Pace: His-Bundle CRT for Heart Failure Impresses in Second Randomized Trial https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/950037
- A Randomized Trial of His pacing versus Biventricular pacing in Symptomatic Heart Failure Patients with left bundle branch block (His-Alternative) https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacep.2021.04.003
- His Corrective Pacing or Biventricular Pacing for Cardiac Resynchronization in Heart Failure https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2019.04.026
FDA
FDA Moves to Ban Menthol in Tobacco Products https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/950223
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Losing Both Parents During COVID: A Physician's 'Unwitnessed Grief' https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/949490
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| 0:38.6 | Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org medscape cardiology and this is |
| 0:45.9 | this week in cardiology for April 30th 2021. This week COVID |
| 0:51.8 | AFIB screening a a medically conservative take on conduction system pacing, |
| 0:58.4 | tobacco, and a truly heartfelt essay. First up is COVID. |
| 1:04.0 | Now the main thing to say is that the vaccine works. |
| 1:08.0 | In the US, in Israel, we see that as the numbers of vaccinated adults go up, cases go down. |
| 1:15.0 | Just as the trial results would predict, but that's not the best part. |
| 1:19.0 | New England Journal had a brief report on breakthrough infections after vaccinations in two patients. |
| 1:25.0 | That's right, two of 417 employees of a university in New York City. |
| 1:30.0 | Neither of these patients had severe disease. |
| 1:33.0 | And I think this is the prevailing message. |
| 1:36.0 | Vaccination massively almost completely reduces the chance of severe COVID illness. |
| 1:42.0 | But sadly, the global situation remains dire in South |
| 1:46.2 | America and India. Now one thought I had as a total non-expert in public health or economics or policy is this. |
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