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This Week in Cardiology

Mar 11, 2022 This Week in Cardiology Podcast

This Week in Cardiology

Medscape Podcasts

Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness

4.9963 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

AF screening, CTA, stroke prevention and broken observational studies, and medical writing are the topics John Mandrola, MD discusses in this week's podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic

I - AF Screening

- Handheld ECGs Ease A-Fib Screening in the Very Elderly https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969846

- Screening for Atrial Fibrillation in Older Adults at Primary Care Visits: the VITAL-AF Randomized Controlled Trial https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.057014

II - CTA

- DISCHARGE: CTA Shows Safety Edge vs Cath in Intermediate-Risk Stable Chest Pain https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969732

- CT or Invasive Coronary Angiography in Stable Chest Pain https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2200963

III - Stroke Prevention post TAVI

- Silver Lining Emerges for Embolic Protection in Post-TAVR Stroke https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969992

- Cerebral Embolic Protection and Stroke-Related Mortality Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jcin.2022.01.007

- Safety and efficacy of cerebral protection devices in transcatheter aortic valve replacement: A clinical end-points meta-analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29550047/

- Cerebral Embolic Protection and Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Results From the Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33619968/

IV - Medical Writing

- Writing Program Asks Physicians to Explore Their Experiences https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969973

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Transcript

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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

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professionals only any views expressed are the presenters own and do not

0:11.2

necessarily reflect the views of WebMD or Medscape.

0:15.1

You can now access the latest in medical news on your Amazon Alexa-enabled device.

0:19.7

Join me, Perry Wilson, every weekday morning for Medscape Medical Minute where I highlight the top

0:24.7

medical stories of the day.

0:26.5

To add Medscape Medical Minute to your flash briefing, search for Medscape Medical Minute on Amazon

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and click enable or open the Amazon Alexa app go to skills search for

0:35.6

Medscape Medical Minute and click enable then say Alexa what's the news or

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Alexa what's my flash briefing I hope you'll join us.

0:44.6

Hi everyone this is John Mandrola from the heart dot org medscape

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and this is this week in cardiology for March 11th, 2022.

0:55.0

This week, two announcements, A-Fib screening,

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CTA, stroke prevention,

1:02.7

broken observational studies, and medical writing.

1:07.4

I want to make first two announcements.

1:09.9

This week in cardiology will take next week off as I'm traveling to Denmark to speak.

1:15.9

Second announcement is that I want to lead with the thanks for the comments that we're getting

1:20.6

on the This Week in Cardiology link on the Heart.org medscape webpage and also for some of the kind reviews on Apple podcast.

1:29.5

Thank you very much.

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These things really help others find the podcast. All right, first topic,

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