Aug 13, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
Medscape Podcasts
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🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19, vaccine-induced myocarditis, Watchman complications, SGLT2 inhibitors, and cardiogenic shock are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic
1 - COVID-19
- 18 Months Later, the COVID-19 Memories Won't Go Away https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/956335
2 - Vaccine-Myocarditis
- Myocarditis in Adolescents After COVID-19 Vaccine Typically Mild https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/956359
- Association of Myocarditis With BNT162b2 Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccine in a Case Series of Children https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2783052
3 - Watchman
- 'Striking' Difference in Adverse Events in Women With Watchman LAAO https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/956593
- Sex Differences in Procedural Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2782726
4 - SGLT2 Inhibitors
- EU Approves Dapagliflozin for Kidney Disease, Regardless of Diabetes https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/956345
- Dapagliflozin in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2024816
5 - Cardiogenic Shock
- No Win for Milrinone Over Dobutamine in Cardiogenic Shock https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/956222
- Milrinone as Compared with Dobutamine in the Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2026845
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| 0:40.6 | Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org medscape |
| 0:44.4 | cardiology and this is this week in cardiology for August 13th 2021. |
| 0:49.5 | This week COVID vaccine-induced myocarditis, watchman complications, SGLT2 inhibition, and |
| 0:59.2 | cardiogenic shock. |
| 1:01.7 | The COVID situation is really unchanged from last week. The cases due to |
| 1:05.9 | Delta continue to rise and hot spots such as Florida and Texas and Louisiana seem to |
| 1:11.4 | be driving it. I live here in Kentucky in the southeast |
| 1:15.4 | and I've been following our situation closely. Early this month we went from |
| 1:20.2 | one COVID-ICAU patient to 11 in like three days. It was a shocker. But all week in the last 10 days really, |
| 1:28.9 | we've stayed steady at around 8 to 9 ICU patients. Like everywhere else, nearly all hospitalized patients |
| 1:35.0 | with COVID have risk factors and are unvaccinated. |
| 1:39.9 | And adding to the stress in our city, |
| 1:41.7 | and maybe yours too, is that even before this |
| 1:44.8 | uptick of COVID admissions all of our hospitals were working at capacity with |
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