Jun 07 2024 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Cannabis and CV outcomes, post-CABG AF, embolic protection devices, emulation of randomization, and a preview heterogenous treatment effects are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers this week.

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I. Cannabis

It Sure Looks Like Cannabis Is Bad for the Heart, Doesn't It?

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1000250

Cannabis Use Tied to Increased Cardiovascular Risk

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/cannabis-use-tied-increased-cardiovascular-risk-2024a10003yr

Medical Cannabis for Chronic Pain Tied to Arrhythmia Risk

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/medical-cannabis-chronic-pain-tied-arrhythmia-risk-2024a10000sc

Cannabis for Chronic Pain and CV Safety https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad834
Editorial https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/45/6/485/7500073
Response to Letter https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae314
UCLA paper https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2819559
Lifetime Cannabis Use and Mortality https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2819635

II. Post Cardiac Surgery AF

Meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae267

III. Embolic Protection devices

Clear Stroke Benefit Eludes Embolic Protection: PROTECTED TAVR

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/980978

Embolic Protection and Stroke Prevention With TAVR https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.123.013697
PROTECTED TAVR https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2204961

IV. Preview of HTE

Paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2024.04.020

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0:00.0	You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart
0:03.4	org medscape cardiology this podcast is intended for health care
0:07.6	professionals only any views expressed are the presenters own and do not
0:11.2	necessarily reflect the views of WebMD or Medscape.
0:15.0	Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is
0:20.7	this week in Cardiology for June 7th, 2024.
0:24.0	This week, Cannabis and Cardiovascular Outcomes,
0:28.0	post-cardiac Surgery A-Fib,
0:30.0	Embolic Protection Devices after TAVI, emulation of randomization, and an introduction
0:37.3	to heterogeneous treatment effects.
0:39.9	Let me start with some words on the British Cardiovascular Society meeting.
0:44.2	I want to offer a huge thank you to Professor Andrew Clark and the British Cardiovascular
0:49.2	Society for inviting me to give the Paul Wood lecture at the BCS annual meeting on Monday in Manchester, my first time in Manchester.
0:57.0	Thank you for the hospitality and thanks to the many who came up to me afterwards and said they listened to the podcast.
1:04.2	It's interesting how receptive a British audience is to a lecture on critical appraisal of evidence
1:09.5	and lessons from cardiac history. Paul Wood practiced cardiology in 1940s and 1960s.
1:17.3	He wrote what was then the definitive textbook in cardiology in 1950. It was a thousand pages, can you imagine one author?
1:25.8	He became famous in Britain for his bedside skills, strong thinking and a lack of fear of
1:31.0	also speaking candidly.
1:33.4	He died at age 55 in 1962 of an acute coronary occlusion.
1:39.3	When he saw as ECG, he called it irreversible and told his caregivers that he should not be resuscitated.
1:46.6	He had VF later that day.
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