Feb 18, 2022 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Spinal cord stimulation to prevent post-cardiac surgery AF, statin intolerance, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, and Vitamin D are discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast.
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I Post-Cardiac Surgery AF
Spinal Cord Stimulation May Cut AF After Cardiac Surgery
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/968478
• Autonomic Neuromodulation for Atrial Fibrillation Following Cardiac Surgery: JACC Review Topic of the Week https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.12.010
• Temporary Spinal Cord Stimulation to Prevent Postcardiac Surgery Atrial Fibrillation: 30-Day Safety and Efficacy Outcomes https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.08.078
II – Statin Intolerance
Statin Intolerance 'Overestimated and Overdiagnosed' https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/968627
• Prevalence of statin intolerance: a meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac015
III – HFpEF
Risk in Preserved-EF HF Varies With Normal vs High Natriuretic Peptides https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/968748
• Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in patients with normal natriuretic peptide levels is associated with increased morbidity and mortality https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab911
• Universal definition and classification of heart failure: a report of the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of Heart Failure: Endorsed by the Canadian Heart Failure Society, Heart Failure Association of India, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, and Chinese Heart Failure Association https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33605000/
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Why Is Vitamin D Hype So Impervious to Evidence? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/968682
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| 0:44.0 | Hi everyone this is John Mandiola from the Heart.org Medscape cardiology and this is |
| 0:50.0 | this week in cardiology for February 18th 2022 this week This week novel |
| 0:55.0 | novel methods to prevent post-cardiac surgery AFIB, |
| 0:58.8 | statin intolerance, heart failure with preserved |
| 1:01.0 | ejection fraction, and vitamin D. |
| 1:04.0 | The first topic is post-operative AFIB or post-cardiac surgery AFIB. |
| 1:09.0 | An Ivalpine previously that the only way to prevent postcardiac surgery AFIP is not to have cardiac surgery. |
| 1:17.0 | That's because for my entire career, I've never seen anything work to reduced postcardiac surgery AFib. But maybe, just maybe, new research |
| 1:28.0 | into a different avenue infuses a tiny bit of hope. The new avenue of therapeutics is via the autonomic nervous system. |
| 1:37.0 | Jack has published a research letter on use of spinal cord stimulation to prevent postcardiac surgery AFib. The paper was originally |
| 1:45.9 | presented at the ACC meeting in 2021. But let's do a very brief bit of background first. |
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