June 18, 2021 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

COVID vaccine myocarditis, Christian Eriksen and sudden cardiac death, therapeutic hypothermia, and revascularization of stable CAD are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.

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1- COVID-Vaccine-Myocarditis

AHA: Don't Delay COVID Shot While CDC Reviews Myocarditis Cases https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/953233

Myocarditis after BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 Vaccination https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.055913

2- Christian Eriksen

Christian Eriksen: un survivant qui doit nous inspirer

https://francais.medscape.com/voirarticle/3607279

Danish Soccer Player Suffered Cardiac Arrest During Euro Match

https://www.webmd.com/news/20210614/danish-soccer-player-suffered-cardiac-arrest-during-euro-match

Point/Counterpoint on Halting Implantation of the Subcutaneous ICD https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacep.2021.03.006

3- Therapeutic Hypothermia

Trial Supports Therapeutic Hypothermia in Nonshockable Cardiac Arrest https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/919855

Hypothermia versus Normothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2100591

PulmCrit – A history of hypothermia for cardiac arrest, 2002-2021 (RIP)

https://emcrit.org/pulmcrit/ttm2/

4 - Revascularization of Stable CAD

Meta-analysis Muses Over ISCHEMIA Message Had Trial Lasted Longer https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/951498

Cardiac mortality in patients randomised to elective coronary revascularisation plus medical therapy or medical therapy alone: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab246

Impact of revascularisation on outcomes in chronic coronary syndromes: a new meta-analysis with the same old biases?

https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab330

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0:38.6	Hi everyone, this is John Mandrula from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology, and this is this week in
0:45.6	Cardiology for June 18th, 2021.
0:49.7	This week, COVID, COVID vaccine myocarditis, Christian Ericsson, therapeutic hypothermia, and a dubious
0:59.2	meta analysis of revascularization trials and stable coronary disease.
1:05.0	Another week has brought more good news on COVID.
1:07.6	Hospitalizations, cases are trending lower,
1:10.3	and this is despite the relaxing of social distancing and masking.
1:15.0	I read that the European Union will now allow a US tourist.
1:19.0	Even COVID Twitter seems less anxious, which is saying a lot. But there is more news on the
1:25.7	vaccine-induced myocarditis story. This week circulation is published a
1:31.4	series of eight patients, mostly young males, mostly second shots,
1:36.0	who had pretty severe myocarditis.
1:39.4	A number of these patients required ICU admissions, all of them had high levels of
1:44.0	Treponin and abnormal CMR scans, and a link to that paper in circulation.
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