Apr 9, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast

This Week in Cardiology

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, hybrid AF ablation TAVR and who gets to be called a doctor are the topics by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic

COVID-19

UK Regulators to Offer Under-30s Alternative to AZ COVID Vaccine https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/948934

- News - Communicating the potential benefits and harms of the Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine https://wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/communicating-potential-benefits-and-harms-astra-zeneca-covid-19-vaccine/

Hybrid Ablation for Persistent AF

- Hybrid Convergent Procedure for the Treatment of Persistent and Long-Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCEP.120.009288

- Converge trial Rationale Paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2020.02.016

- Approaches to Catheter Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1408288

- Toward evidence-based medical statistics. 2: The Bayes factor https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10383350/

TAVR

- TAVR Feasible, Comparable to Surgery in Rheumatic Heart Disease https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/948832

- Transcatheter Versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Rheumatic Aortic Stenosis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.02.032

- Upsides, Downsides for TAVR, Minimally Invasive AVR https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/946104

- Minimally invasive surgery versus transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://openheart.bmj.com/content/8/1/e001535#ref-9

Who Should Get to Be Called 'Doctor'? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/948887

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart.org on medscape.
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0:38.6	Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is this week in
0:45.2	Cardiology for April 9th, 2021.
0:48.8	This week, COVID, COVID vaccines, hybrid A-Fib Oblation, Taver,
0:56.0	and who gets to be named a doctor.
0:59.0	So first up COVID, again, there's good news and bad news.
1:03.6	The good news is that many areas of the U.S. are doing amazingly well.
1:07.5	We're doing well here in Kentucky.
1:09.7	And why is Texas doing so good as it has had some of the least strict measures?
1:15.8	Why is Michigan doing so poorly?
1:17.7	It's hard to explain.
1:19.5	I talked to a doctor at a big hospital in Michigan and he says that admissions are up but not at the same pressure
1:26.2	as during the winter surge.
1:29.2	Also good news in the U.S. is the vaccine rollouts.
1:32.4	It was a rocky start for sure, but now millions are being
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