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This Week in Cardiology

Jul 19 2024 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

Medscape Podcasts

Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Vulnerable plaque and scientific method; industry payments to trainees; tirzepatide or semaglutide; trial interpretation; and PFA are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in today's podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

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I. Non-invasive Imaging for Vulnerable Plaque
 

PET Imaging Finds Vulnerable Plaques That Cause MI

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/pet-imaging-finds-vulnerable-plaques-cause-mi-2024a1000cm2

  • JACC paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.03.419
  • Original JAMA-Card paper https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2806690

II. Industry Payments to Fellows

  • JAMA Network Letter https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2821267

III. GLP-1a Class Effect?

Semaglutide Significantly Improves Chronic Kidney Disease

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/semaglutide-significantly-improves-chronic-kidney-disease-2024a10009w9

Mounjaro Beats Ozempic, So Why Isn't It More Popular?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/mounjaro-beats-ozempic-so-why-isnt-it-more-popular-2024a1000ckd

  • JAMA-Internal Medicine: Semaglutide vs Tirzepatide https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2821080 
  • SELECT trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2307563
  • FLOW trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2403347
  • SURPASS-CVOT – Rationale https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2023.09.007

IV. Colchicine and Trial Interpretation in the Lancet

  • CONVINCE https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00968-1

V. PFA

Pulsed Field Ablation for AF: Are US Electrophysiologists Too Easily Impressed?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/pulsed-field-ablation-af-are-us-electrophysiologists-too-2024a1000d2v

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You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart

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org medscape cardiology this podcast is intended for health care

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Hi everyone this is John Mandiola from the heart dot org escape cardiology and this is

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this week in cardiology for July 19th, 2024.

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This week, we'll talk about the vulnerable plaque,

0:58.0

the scientific method in prominent journals,

1:01.0

industry payments to trainees,

1:03.0

Turzeepitide or semaggluteide,

1:05.6

trial interpretation, the ITT versus on treatment analyses,

1:11.1

and pulse field ablation. The first topic is about finding the

1:16.1

vulnerable plaque with pet imaging. More than 30 years ago I was taught first at

1:21.3

Hartford Hospital and then in Indiana that most amis occur in young immature

1:25.4

plaques that were not severely stenosed. For whatever reason, possibly no reason a non-stonotic plaque can rupture and cause a clot and an

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