Jan 20 2023 This Week in Cardiology
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The loop diuretic duels, adverse events during hospital admissions, BP accuracy, and, again, left main revascularization strategies (again) are the topics John Mandrola discusses in this week's podcast.
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I. TRANSFORM HF
Clarity on Torsemide vs Furosemide in HF: TRANSFORM-HF Published https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/987128
• Effect of Torsemide vs Furosemide After Discharge on All-Cause Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2800428
• RANSFORM-HF—Can We Close the Loop on Diuretics in Heart Failure? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2800445
II. Adverse Events in the Hospital
Adverse Events Reported in One Quarter of Inpatient Admissions https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/987091
• The Safety of Inpatient Health Care https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2206117
III. BP Accuracy
Experts Demand Validation of Automatic Blood Pressure Devices
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/987032
IV. Left Main Coronary Artery Disease
Real-World Examination of Revascularization Strategies for Left Main Coronary Disease in Ontario, Canada
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2022.10.016
Management of Left Main Coronary Artery Disease in Nonemergent Settings: The Heart of Multidisciplinary Teamwork https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2022.11.024
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart |
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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 for January 20, 2023. |
| 0:55.0 | This week, the diuretic duels, adverse events during hospital admissions, |
| 1:02.0 | accuracy of blood pressure measurements, and left main revascularization |
| 1:06.6 | strategies again. |
| 1:09.8 | First up is Transform HF study was published. Now this podcast, |
| 1:15.3 | Cardiology journals, meetings, and Cardiology news sites often feature the |
| 1:20.8 | big four classes of drugs for heart failure. You know them, the |
| 1:25.1 | RAS inhibitors, MRA, beta blockers, SGLT2 inhibitors. And our EP devices get lots of |
| 1:32.4 | attention to, but gosh the core of helping folks with heart failure and congestion are loop diuretics. |
| 1:40.0 | And the question of which of these two, the ferrosomide or torcomide is best, has been long debated. |
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