Aug 20, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast

This Week in Cardiology

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Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19, Simpson's Paradox, LAA appendage closure, multimorbidity, and an ESC preview are the topics John Mandrola, MD discusses in today's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic

1 - COVID-19

- Lacking Beds, Hospitals Ship COVID-19 Patients to Other States https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/956917

- Efficacy and Safety of Same-Day Discharge for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32553209/

2 - Simpson's Paradox

- Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated? https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-efficacy-vs-severe-disease-be-strong-when-60-of-hospitalized-are-vaccinated

- Simpson's Paradox and Interpreting Data https://towardsdatascience.com/simpsons-paradox-and-interpreting-data-6a0443516765

- How SIMPSON'S PARADOX explains weird COVID19 statistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Ci3FosqZs

3 - Left Atrial Appendage Closure

- FDA Approves Abbott's Amplatzer Amulet for Atrial Fibrillation https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/956726

- Chronic Kidney Disease Tied to Worse LAAO Outcomes https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/956778

- The Association of Chronic Kidney Disease With Outcomes Following Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jcin.2021.06.008

- Prophylactic Use of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in Dialysis https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.039818

4 - ESC Preview

- SGLT2 inhibitors in HFpEF

- EMPEROR-Preserved: Positive Top-Line Results for Empagliflozin in HFpEF https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954284

- AF Screening

- Atrial fibrillation detected by continuous electrocardiographic monitoring using implantable loop recorder to prevent stroke in individuals at risk (the LOOP study): Rationale and design of a large randomized controlled trial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28454796/

5 - Coming soon

The anticoagulation in COVID-19 trial is one of the hardest I have seen in years. Stay tuned.

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0:00.0	You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart
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0:33.4	Alexa, what's the news or Alexa, what's my flash briefing? I hope you'll join us.
0:38.6	Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology.
0:45.0	And this is this week in Cardiology for August 20th, 2021.
0:49.0	This week, COVID, Simpsons Paradox, Left A a drill appendage closure, multimorbidity, and an ESC preview.
1:00.9	The COVID situation continues to be vocally quite bad.
1:04.6	Hospitalizations in some areas have risen to the point where many places are at
1:09.7	postponing elective procedures.
1:11.6	We're close to that but not quite there. But I'm
1:15.4	going to focus on some mildly optimistic signs. First, states that were first hit seem
1:21.3	to have seen cases peak.
1:23.0	Look at the curves for Missouri and Louisiana and even Texas.
1:26.8	The seven day moving averages have flattened.
1:29.0	I hope that's a good sign.
1:32.0	Now, while the world would have been better off without this virus, for sure,
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