March 12, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19, heart failure classifications, DOAC after bioprosthetic valves, and Medicare spending in the pandemic year Are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic
I. COVID-19 Vaccination in Israel
COVID-19 Vaccination Linked to Less Mechanical Ventilation https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/946568
BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Mass Vaccination Setting https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2101765
II. Heart Failure Classification
Heart Failure Redefined With New Classifications, Staging https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947048
Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure: A Report of the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of Heart Failure https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.01.022
Angiotensin–Neprilysin Inhibition in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1908655
Sacubitril/Valsartan Across the Spectrum of Ejection Fraction in Heart Failure https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.044586
III. DOACs In Bioprosthetic Valves --
DOACs Offered After Heart Valve Surgery Despite Absence of Data https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947193
Off-label Use of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Patients Receiving Surgical Mechanical and Bioprosthetic Heart Valves https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2777141
Dabigatran versus Warfarin in Patients with Mechanical Heart Valves https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1300615
2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000665
Antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation associated with valvular heart disease: a joint consensus document.... https://academic.oup.com/europace/article/19/11/1757/4098134
IV. Pandemic Slices Medicare Physician Spending in First Half of 2020: AMA https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/946984
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| 0:39.8 | Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is this week in Cardiology for March 12th |
| 0:48.8 | 2021. This week COVID |
| 0:52.3 | Heart Failure Doax and This week, COVID, heart failure, |
| 0:54.3 | Doax and surgical valves, Medicare spending in the pandemic. |
| 1:00.7 | This week marked a one year anniversary of the pandemic. |
| 1:04.0 | I was talking with my granddaughter, a second grader. |
| 1:07.0 | She was very excited about going back to school next week. |
| 1:11.0 | I thought to myself how my memories of first and second grade seem like a |
| 1:15.2 | blur, but surely she will remember this past year forever. We all will. The slope of |
| 1:22.3 | the falling hospitalization curve here in the U.S. is shocking in its |
| 1:26.5 | degree. And it is such good news. Locally here in Louisville, we have only 20 patients with COVID in our hospital. |
| 1:35.0 | This is lower than even the low summer numbers. |
| 1:39.0 | And a larger hospital system in our city sent an email to employees proclaiming the number of patients with |
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