Dec 17, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
PFO closure, trans-mitral procedures, yoga as therapy, and a year-end-review are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in this week's podcast. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic
I – PFO Closure
- Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects in an Analysis of Pooled Individual Patient Data From Randomized Trials of Device Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale After Stroke https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2787115
- Patent Foramen Ovale Closure—Harnessing Clinical Trial Evidence to Inform Individualized Treatment Decisions https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2787132
- Personalized evidence based medicine: predictive approaches to heterogeneous treatment effects https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30530757/
- Lord's Paradox by Stephen Senn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cause-concern-stephen-senn/
II – Trans-Mitral Procedures
- Transcatheter Mitral Valve Procedures Up Tenfold Since 2014 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964657
- Transcatheter Mitral Valve Therapy in the United States: A Report From the STS-ACC TVT Registry https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.07.058
- Percutaneous Repair or Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1009355
- Transcatheter Mitral-Valve Repair in Patients with Heart Failure https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1806640
- Percutaneous Repair or Medical Treatment for Secondary Mitral Regurgitation https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1805374
III – Yoga for Vasovagal Syncope
- Yoga Effective Adjunct Therapy in Recurrent Vasovagal Syncope https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964644
- Effect of Yoga on Clinical Outcomes and Quality of Life in Patients With Vasovagal Syncope (LIVE-Yoga) https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacep.2021.09.007
- Effect of Yoga on Arrhythmia Burden, Anxiety, Depression, and Quality of Life in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: The YOGA My Heart Study https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2012.11.060
- Effects of yoga in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation - a randomized controlled study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26976659/
IV – Top Ten of 2021
- Mandrola's Top 10 Cardiology Stories of 2021 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964818
- Top Cardiology Trials of 2021 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/963475
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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 |
| 0:45.8 | this week in Cardiology for December 17th, 2021. |
| 0:50.8 | Today, two announcements, PFO closure, trans mitral procedures, yoga and a year end review. |
| 1:00.4 | First an announcement. |
| 1:01.6 | This week in cardiology will take a two-week break for the holidays and return on January 7th. |
| 1:07.0 | I want to thank all of you for your support and comments. It means so much to me that you listen. I'm speaking to this mic every week and I never know who it reaches. |
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| 1:29.7 | Heart.org Medscape cardiology. The first topic today is PFO closure. |
| 1:34.3 | Jammin has published a really nice meta analysis of the PFO closure versus medicine |
| 1:39.6 | trials in patients with cryptogenic stroke. First some background. and healthy, devoid of risk factors, and in sinus rhythm have an symbolic stroke. |
| 1:55.1 | Now the goal is obviously to prevent another one. Since these patients are |
| 1:59.3 | usually young, the therapy has to be for a long time which is an important factor. |
| 2:04.0 | Now your thoughts immediately go to the possibility of a PFO and paradoxical embolism of |
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