Nov 19, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In AHA 2021 Part 1, John Mandrola, MD, reports on selected sessions from the virtual American Heart Association meeting.
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I - AVATAR
- Early SAVR Tops Watchful Waiting in Severe, Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis: AVATAR https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/962904
- Aortic Valve ReplAcemenT versus Conservative Treatment in Asymptomatic SeveRe Aortic Stenosis: The AVATAR Trial https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.057639
- Early Surgery or Conservative Care for Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1912846
II - TCV Repair
- Concomitant Tricuspid-Mitral Surgery Beneficial but With a Tradeoff https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/962899
- Concomitant Tricuspid Repair in Patients with Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115961
III - PALACS
- Procedure Reduces Postop AF After Cardiac Surgery: PALACS https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/962907
- Posterior left pericardiotomy for the prevention of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: an adaptive, single-centre, single-blind, randomised, controlled trial https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02490-9
IV - Left Main CAD
- Left-Main PCI, CABG Mortality Similar; Choice Remains Complex https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/963198
- Percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents versus coronary artery bypass grafting in left main coronary artery disease: an individual patient data meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02334-5
Features:
- Questions Remain on Tricuspid Repair at Time of Mitral Surgery https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/962902
- Despite Positive Trials, Early Surgery in Asymptomatic AS Should Wait https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/962926
- Can New Meta-analysis of PCI vs CABG for Left Main CAD Settle the Debate? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/963295
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart.org on medscape. |
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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 |
| 0:46.3 | Cardiology for November 19th, 2021. |
| 0:50.1 | This week, an announcement and then an AHA review version one. |
| 0:55.7 | Next week is Thanksgiving break and so TWIC will return on December 3rd. |
| 1:02.2 | Before I get to the AHA review, |
| 1:04.7 | I want to say thank you to all of those who've sent me comments |
| 1:07.2 | over the year. |
| 1:08.6 | I mean, not talking to this mic each week |
| 1:10.4 | and wonder how it has received. Both positive and negative feedback is |
| 1:14.8 | appreciated so please keep it up. I also want to say a word of thanks to my |
| 1:19.4 | colleagues and editors at the Heart.org for their support and mentorship and learning to do critical appraisal. |
| 1:27.2 | Now to the AHA review, I won't be able to get to all the studies in one podcast, so look for part two when I come back in December. |
| 1:36.4 | First up is Avatar. |
| 1:38.0 | This was an RCT of early surgery versus watchful waiting in patients with severe aortic stenosis. |
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