March 5, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast

This Week in Cardiology

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Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Cardiac studies in professional athletes after COVID-19 infection, percutaneous valve repair, AF screening, and social media are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. To read a partial transcript or to comment https://www.medscape.com/twic

COVID and the Athletic Heart

Incidence of Cardiac Pathology Post-COVID in Pro Athletes < 1% https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/946902

Prevalence of Inflammatory Heart Disease Among Professional Athletes With Prior COVID-19 Infection Who Received Systematic Return-to-Play Cardiac Screening https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2777308

Percutaneous Valve Repair

Delirium Common, Costly After Mitral, Tricuspid Valve Repair https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/946736

Prevalence and Impact of Post-Procedural Delirium After Percutaneous Repair of Mitral and Tricuspid Valves https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jcin.2020.11.031

AF Screening

AF Screening in Asymptomatic Older Individuals Shows Promise https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/946844

Screening for Atrial Fibrillation in the Older Population A Randomized Clinical Trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2776728

Social Media

JAMA Podcast on Racism in Medicine Faces Backlash https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/20210304/jama-podcast-on-racism-in-medicine-faces-backlash

Time's Up Founder Choo Accused in Harassment Mishandling https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/946678

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0:38.6	Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology and this is this week in
0:45.3	Cardiology for March 5th 2021. This week COVID, COVID into heart, percutaneous valve repair, AF screening, and a comment on social media.
1:00.3	First, the good news on COVID continues. Cases plateaued for a bit and now are decreasing further.
1:07.0	I read a tweet that in Connecticut, my birth date, one in five people have received at least one shot.
1:14.1	It's pretty good.
1:16.1	Another under-appreciated thing I learned this week is about the massive reduction in severe
1:21.0	COVID after vaccination.
1:23.0	Dr. Monica Gandhi, an ID professor at the UCSF,
1:27.0	tweeted out a table of the Phase 3 placebo controlled vaccine trials.
1:32.0	I'll link to that tweet and table. controlled vaccine Of these, guess how many COVID cases there were significant enough to be admitted to the hospital?
1:47.0	One. Yes, one in 100,000. That is amazing. I think soon the pandemic will be over. Next topic is
1:57.1	COVID and the heart. Again, I will keep this brief, but a prominent group of
2:02.1	sports cardiologists have published yet another
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