Dec 08 2023 This Week in Cardiology
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Three aspects of the recent AF guideline documents and a possible new treatment of POTS are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.
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I AF Guidelines
ACC/AHA Issue Updated Atrial Fibrillation Guideline
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/998956
- Guideline doc: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001193
- CASTLE AF https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1707855
- Analysis of US Inpatient Sample https://bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2261-14-73
- RAFT AF https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.057095
- Beta Blockers in AF https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25193873/
Section 2 AF Guidelines – EARLY Rhythm Control Gets Emphasis
- STOP AF https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029554
- EARLY AF https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2029980
- EAST https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2019422
- Natural History of AF https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacc.2019.09.050
Section 3 AF Guidelines – Dubious Upgrade of percutaneous LAAC
- PROTECT and PREVAIL Meta-analysis 5-year https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.10.021
- PINNACLE FLX https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.050117
II. Postural Orthostatic tachycardia Syndrome
Vagus Nerve Stimulation Promising In POTS
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/998913
- Stavrakis et al. Noninvasive VNS for POTS https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2023.10.015
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| 0:44.0 | Hi everyone this is John Mandrola from the heart dot org medscape |
| 0:49.0 | and this is this week in cardiology to talk about three aspects of the recent American AFIB guidelines |
| 1:01.6 | and a possible new treatment for POTS or Pastro Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. |
| 1:07.9 | But before I start, I wanted to say a few words about the Brazilian EP society meeting in Rio de Janeiro last weekend. |
| 1:16.8 | Wow, what a meeting and what a country. I want to say thank you to Sobrach and to Dr. Edward Saar for the kind invitation and amazing |
| 1:26.4 | hospitality. I am struck by the strength of EP being done in Brazil. I was speaking with some very young EP docs there and while I was |
| 1:36.0 | going on about boring old Pomere-Vane isolation, they were telling me of their epicardial VTlations due to the presence of Shaga's cardiomyopathy. |
| 1:47.0 | Also, a quick short note to my listeners in Porto Allegre. |
| 1:52.0 | First of all, thank you for listening, but if I make any flubs today, it is because I've done so many ablations this week. |
| 1:59.0 | Yes, of course, I have a podcast, but I also do hundreds of oblations and devices per year. |
| 2:05.2 | We don't have Shaugus cardiomyopathy here, but we do have a lot of ischemic PT that requires |
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