Sep 10, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
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🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
ESC Wrap-up Part II: EMPEROR-Preserved, and the STEP, Guide-HF, and IAMI trials, are discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic
I - HFpEF
- EMPEROR-Preserved: Empagliflozin Scores HFpEF Breakthrough https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/957405
- Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107038
II - BP Targets
- STEP: Lowering Blood Pressure Below 130 mm Hg Shows CV Benefit https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/957566
- Trial of Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Older Patients with Hypertension https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2111437
III- PA Catheter Monitoring
- GUIDE-HF: CardioMEMS-Guided Meds Fall Short in Mild to Moderate Heart Failure https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/957390
- Haemodynamic-guided management of heart failure (GUIDE-HF): a randomised controlled trial https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01754-2
- Wireless pulmonary artery haemodynamic monitoring in chronic heart failure: a randomised controlled trial https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60101-3
IV - Influenza Vaccine
- Seasonal Flu Vax Cuts Post-MI Mortality in IAMI Trial https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/957575
- Influenza Vaccination after Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Trial https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.057042
- Stopping randomized trials early for benefit and estimation of treatment effects: systematic review and meta-regression analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20332404/
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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 |
| 0:45.2 | Cardiology for September 10th, 2021. |
| 0:49.0 | This week, a second ESC wrap-up show, I'll revisit the Emperor Preserve trial, review the Step, Guide |
| 0:57.2 | HF, and IAMI trials. |
| 1:01.5 | First, a brief update on COVID. |
| 1:03.0 | Thankfully, it looks like our numbers are on a decline, even in places like Florida. |
| 1:09.0 | But hospitals, including ours, are at capacity, and it's going to be hard for the |
| 1:14.3 | coming weeks no doubt and folks on the front lines of this have my respect it's just |
| 1:20.4 | very very hard nearly every week I think about how fortunate we were to have the |
| 1:25.5 | messenger RNA vaccines available during this surge. I spend so much time in my EP clinic every |
| 1:31.8 | week convincing hesitant cardiac patients of the clear benefit of these drugs. |
| 1:37.0 | Now to Cardiology. |
| 1:40.0 | First an update on my coverage last week of Emperor Preserved. |
| 1:43.4 | Now Emperor Preserve was a large trial comparing Emba versus placebo in patients with heart failure |
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