Mar 4, 2022 This Week in Cardiology
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
An update to CardioMEMs post, ARBs and cancer, troponins, empagliflozin, and low-value care are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast.
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I – Invasive Monitoring for HF
- FDA Expands Eligibility for CardioMEMS Heart Failure System https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969004
- Haemodynamic-guided management of heart failure (GUIDE-HF): a randomised controlled trial https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01754-2
II – ARBs and Cancer
- ARBs and Cancer Risk: New Meta-Analysis Raises Questions Again https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969510
- Risk of cancer with angiotensin-receptor blockers increases with increasing cumulative exposure: Meta-regression analysis of randomized trials https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263461
- Marciniak Meta-analysis in FDA Medical Review 206316Orig1Orig2s000 https://rb.gy/myhlvy
III – Troponins and Cardiac Surgery
- What Troponin Level Indicates Injury After Cardiac Surgery? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969617?src=
- High-Sensitivity Troponin I after Cardiac Surgery and 30-Day Mortality https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2000803
- Five-Year Outcomes after PCI or CABG for Left Main Coronary Disease https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1909406
IV – Empagliflozin in HFpEF
- FDA Okays Empagliflozin for HF Regardless of Ejection Fraction https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969118
- Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107038
- Angiotensin-Neprilysin Inhibition in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1908655
V – Low-Value Care
- AHA Targets 'Low-Value' Heart Care in New Scientific Statement https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969107
- Strategies to Reduce Low-Value Cardiovascular Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/HCQ.0000000000000105
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart |
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| 0:44.0 | Hi everyone this is John Mandrola from the heart |
| 0:47.4 | dot org medscape cardiology and this is this week in cardiology for March 4th, 2022. |
| 0:55.0 | This week, I want to update my cardio mems post from last week, |
| 1:00.0 | ARBs and cancer, TRPONNs, |
| 1:03.4 | Eplacloflosing, and low-value care. |
| 1:08.0 | First, an update to my cardio mems post |
| 1:11.2 | from last week. |
| 1:13.1 | Last week I presented on the Guide HF trial |
| 1:16.2 | and how it led to Cardio Mem's FDA approval. |
| 1:20.6 | I strongly oppose the approval. Today I want to give a brief update on something that I did not make clear in that discussion. |
| 1:28.0 | Now if you haven't listened to last week it would be useful now to go back and listen to the first 10 minutes. |
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