Jan 7, 2022 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Causes of sudden death, inclisiran, DOAC choices, and alcohol and VT/VF are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast.
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I – Causes of Sudden Death
- Cardiac Device Interrogation After Death 'Richly Informative' https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/965730
- Postmortem Interrogation of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices: A 15-Year Experience https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacep.2021.10.011
- Sudden Death in Patients With Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26098676/
- Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Interrogation at Forensic Autopsy https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha.117.032367
II – Inclisiran
- FDA Approves First-in-Class Inclisiran to Lower LDL-C https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/965464
- ORION: Inclisiran Phase 3 Trials Published https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/927107
- Meta-Analysis of Inclisiran for the Treatment of Hypercholesterolemia https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32892993/
- Evolocumab and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1615664
- Alirocumab and Cardiovascular Outcomes after Acute Coronary Syndrome https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1801174
III – DOAC Choice
- Apixaban: The 'Anticoagulant of Choice' for AF https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/965390
- Association of Rivaroxaban vs Apixaban With Major Ischemic or Hemorrhagic Events in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2787319
IV – Alcohol and VT/VF and SCD
- Some Good News on Alcohol and 'Holiday Heart Syndrome' https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/965498
- Alcohol consumption and risk of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death: An observational study of 408,712 individuals https://www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-5271(21)02215-3/fulltext
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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 this week in |
| 0:45.1 | Cardiology for January 7th, 2022. |
| 0:49.4 | This week, sudden death causes, in Clisoran, |
| 0:53.7 | Doak choices, and alcohol intake |
| 0:57.1 | and ventricular arrhythias. |
| 0:59.4 | First, I want to say, happy new year |
| 1:01.2 | and again express my thanks for listening to |
| 1:03.1 | TWIC. What a start we've had to this year and the Omicron surge. Now the old |
| 1:09.7 | John would have opined briefly on this. The new John, however, has decided that A, no one is |
| 1:16.2 | persuaded by any pandemic-related commentary. B, everything pandemic-related is politically charged and too dangerous to speak on |
| 1:25.0 | and see it's best to move straight to cardiology topics. |
| 1:29.0 | So let's talk about sudden cardiac death. |
| 1:32.0 | Now one thing we electrophysiologists tend to forget So let's talk about sudden cardiac death. |
| 1:32.8 | Now one thing we electrophysiologists tend to forget, |
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