Mar 1 2024 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Western AF meeting, aspirin, cannabis use, LVEF in athletes, and shared decision making before ICD implantation are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

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I. ASA in Primary Prevention

Campbell Meta-analysis https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.065420
Swedish Observational study https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.028321
ASPREE https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1805819

II. Cannabis

Cannabis Use Tied to Increased Cardiovascular Risk

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

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

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

Journal of the AHA Observational Study https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.123.030178

III. Low EF in Athletes

Reduced Ejection Fraction in Elite Endurance Athletes: Clinical and Genetic Overlap With Dilated Cardiomyopathy https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.063777

IV. ICDs and Shared Decision-Making

Association of a Medicare Mandate for Shared Decision-Making With Cardiac Device Utilization https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2815017

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0:45.2	Hi everyone this is John Mandrola from the heart.org medscape
0:50.0	and this is this week in cardiology for March 1st, 2024.
0:54.0	This week, some comments on Western AFIB, aspirin use,
0:58.6	cannabis use, leaven trigger ejection fraction in athletes,
1:02.4	and shared decision-making before ICD implantation.
1:06.0	Before I start I want to say a few words on the Western AFIB Congress that was in Park City, Utah last weekend.
1:13.0	First, of course, thank you to my friend, Dr Nasir Marouche, for the invite to this incredible meeting.
1:19.0	It's a remarkable two days of lectures on AF.
1:22.0	I had two assignments and one was to be on a panel discussing
1:26.6	the topic, every patient with AFIB deserves a PVI. Now that's obviously a provocative topic. There was indeed a spirited
1:36.4	discussion about doing P. V. I. and how earlier is better than later. One of the
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