Aug 27, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
Medscape Podcasts
4.9 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19, NEJM vaccine safety paper, full-dose anticoagulation in COVID-19, AF and Exercise, and early results on EMPEROR-Preserved are the studies John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic
1 - COVID-19
- Heart Inflammation More Common After COVID Than After Vaccination https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/957343
- Safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Setting https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110475
2 - Full dose AC in COVID-19
- Heparin's COVID-19 Benefit Greatest in Moderately Ill Patients https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/956630
- Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2105911
- Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2103417
3 - AF and Exercise
- Aerobic Exercise Can Reduce AF Frequency, Severity: ACTIVE-AF https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/957322
4 - EMPEROR AF
- EMPEROR-Preserved: Empagliflozin Scores HFpEF Breakthrough https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/957405
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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 |
| 0:45.4 | cardiology for August 27th 2021. |
| 0:49.9 | This week COVID, a New England Journal of Medicine, COVID vaccine safety paper, full |
| 0:56.7 | dose anti coagulation in COVID, atrial fibrillation and exercise, and early results on the Emperor Preserve trial of |
| 1:05.9 | Epigloflosing. |
| 1:08.8 | First up, COVID, there's not much change from last week. |
| 1:11.8 | There is fortunately a desceleration in the growth of cases. |
| 1:17.0 | I guess the bottom line is that given the utter unstoppable of this Delta variant, It's fortunate that we have vaccines, |
| 1:24.0 | but we are in for a bad few weeks, I think. |
| 1:28.0 | And the preventability of this amount of human suffering |
| 1:31.0 | is really quite sad. |
| 1:35.1 | Now let's talk about the New England Journal of Medicine vaccine study. This was an observational study in |
| 1:39.6 | Israel on the safety of the Pfizer messenger RNA vaccine. |
| 1:44.0 | And two docs have already come up to me in my hospitals to show me the study. |
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