July 2, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19, mRNA-vaccine-induced myocarditis, type 2 diabetes in kids, optimal medical therapy for CAD, and Alcohol are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic
1-COVID
- Fast-spreading Delta Variant, Vaccination Rates, Reintroduction of Indoor Masks: COVID-19 Global Weekly Highlights https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/940446
- Health care 'breaking point': Cox confirms some Springfield COVID-19 patients transferred to St. Louis, Kansas City https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2021/06/29/springfield-covid-delta-variant-missouri-hospitals-cox-some-patients-transferred-vaccines/7787970002/
2- COVID Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis
- New Details of Myocarditis Linked to COVID Vaccines https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954061
- Myocarditis Following Immunization With mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Members of the US Military https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2781601
- Patients With Acute Myocarditis Following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2781602
3- Diabetes in the Clinic
- 'Staggering' Doubling of Type 2 Diabetes in Kids During Pandemic https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953816
4- Optimal Medical Therapy
- OMT 'Best Insurance' for Extended Survival After Revascularization https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953959
- Impact of Optimal Medical Therapy on 10-Year Mortality After Coronary Revascularization https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.04.087
- Defining the Proper SYNTAX for Long-Term Benefit of Myocardial Revascularization With Optimal Medical Therapy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.04.088
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention versus Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting for Severe Coronary Artery Disease. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa0804626
- Percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with three-vessel or left main coronary artery disease: 10-year follow-up of the multicentre randomised controlled SYNTAX trial https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31997-X
5- Alcohol
- The Sick-Quitter Effect: How Alcohol Can Seem Cardioprotective When It Isn't https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953696
Features:
- Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis Concerns Demand Respect, Not Absolutism https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954038
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to this week in Cardiology from the Heart.org on Medscape. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org medscape |
| 0:14.4 | cardiology and this is this week in cardiology for July 2nd 2021. |
| 0:19.8 | This week two announcements, messenger RNA vaccine-induced myocarditis, |
| 0:26.4 | diabetes and kids, optimal medical therapy for coronary disease, |
| 0:31.4 | and alcohol. The first announcement is that this week in |
| 0:35.8 | cardiology will take a break next week to celebrate America's |
| 0:39.4 | independence from Britain. The second announcement is that new interns and fellows |
| 0:44.4 | started yesterday. July 1 always reminds me of why I love being a doctor. |
| 0:49.0 | Perhaps now more than ever. The greatest thing about this job is that we're paid to help people. |
| 0:56.6 | Whenever I get down, I try to remember that. Helping people, of course, comes in many forms. |
| 1:02.9 | You can help people with oblation and stance and valves and pacemakers, even medications. |
| 1:09.3 | The main way we can help people is even simpler. It is to care just by caring we help and I say |
| 1:16.7 | congratulations to all the new doctors out there. The next topic is COVID. Another week is passed and again COVID case counts in the US remain super low. |
| 1:28.2 | There are however some focal areas that are seeing surges in cases. |
| 1:32.8 | I'll link to a news article from Springfield, Missouri. |
| 1:36.4 | These are areas of low vaccination and high rates of obesity. |
| 1:41.2 | This is exactly as my moonlighting |
| 1:43.4 | pulmonology friend say. They say that in rural areas there are still folks |
| 1:48.1 | with COVID in ICUs and all of them are unvaccinated. |
| 1:56.0 | I led the podcast with a note about American independence. Well, sometimes the rebelliousness is counterproductive, |
| 2:01.0 | especially in a pandemic. |
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