Feb 23 2024 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Reading incidental CAC on chest CT scans, exercise benefits in women vs men, PCI with or without imaging, and trial non-reporting are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.

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I. Incidental CAC on Chest CT

Incidental CAC
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When Does a Calcium Score Equate to Secondary Prevention?: Insights From the Multinational CONFIRM Registry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2023.03.008

II. Exercise

Health Gains of Exercise Greater in Women?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/health-gains-exercise-greater-women-2024a10003fv

Sex Differences in Association of Physical Activity With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality

III. PCI With or Without Imaging

Intravascular Imaging in PCI: Time for a Guideline Update?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/995677

Meta-analysis paper Lancet https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02454-6
Imaging uptake paper https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad430

IV. Trial Non-reporting

The Ghost Research Haunting Nordic Medical Trials

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/ghost-research-haunting-nordic-medical-trials-2024a10003gz

Manuscript/preprint https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.04.24301363v1#T10
Nissen (Rosiglitazone) https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa072761

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0:48.0	and this is this week in cardiology for February 23rd, 2024. This week, reading incidental coronary calcium
0:57.8	on CT scans. Exercise in women and men, PCI with or without imaging, and trial non-reporting.
1:07.0	First is the issue of incidental coronary calcification.
1:12.0	Now, doctors order a lot of non-contrastate CT scans for things like lung
1:16.2	cancer screening, cancer surveillance, infections, and primary lung diseases, and the
1:21.5	heart is always in these images and coronary calcium appears as
1:26.4	bright white signals. The question of late are whether a radiologist should
1:31.8	note these calcifications,
1:33.6	whether they should put the observation in the findings or impression of the report
1:38.2	and what, if any, impact there is
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