Mar 19, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19, Fish Oil and AF risk, SGLT2 inhibitors and renal outcomes, and TAVR vs SAVR are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic
COVID-19
EMA Launches Review of Clot Risk With AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947393
AZ Vaccine Safe Overall but Questions Remain over Unusual Clots https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947733
Fish Oil and AF
Dose-Related AF Risk With Omega-3 Fatty Acids? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947542
Effect of Marine Omega-3 Fatty Acid and Vitamin D Supplementation on Incident Atrial Fibrillation https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777469
Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Atrial Fibrillation https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777450
SGLT2i and Renal Outcomes
Ertugliflozin: Renal Benefits in Additional VERTIS CV Analyses https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947668
Cardiovascular Outcomes with Ertugliflozin in Type 2 Diabetes https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2004967
Effects of ertugliflozin on kidney composite outcomes, renal function and albuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: an analysis from the randomised VERTIS CV trial https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-021-05407-5
TAVR vs SAVR
TAVR vs SAVR in Low-Risk Patients: What We Do and Don't Know https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/946173
Mortality in trials on transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve replacement: a pooled meta-analysis of Kaplan-Meier-derived individual patient data https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32236543/
Outcomes 2 Years After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients at Low Surgical Risk https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.12.052
Five-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910555
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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 |
| 0:45.4 | Cardiology for March 19th 2021. |
| 0:50.0 | This week COVID, fish oil, SGLT2 Inhibition, Taver versus Saver. |
| 0:59.3 | In the United States, the burden of COVID continues to decrease. Hospitalizations are down and the slope of the |
| 1:05.6 | dissent seems to be steepening, though one cautionary note is the state of Michigan, which |
| 1:10.9 | has seen arise in cases and hospitalizations. |
| 1:14.0 | The European Union, however, is a different story. |
| 1:17.0 | Cases are going up. |
| 1:18.0 | My friend in France texted me, tells me that the COVID-related ICU admissions are increasing. |
| 1:23.6 | Brazil too has increasing cases. |
| 1:27.0 | And worse, some EU nations have paused vaccinations |
| 1:30.0 | because of reports of clotting events |
| 1:32.0 | after the Astraenica vaccine. |
| 1:34.0 | Now, Twitter and media was awash this week with articles about |
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