Sep 20 2024 This Week in Cardiology
This Week in Cardiology
Medscape Podcasts
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🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Listener feedback, K levels post cardiac surgery, cardiac device safety, disparities in preventive care, stopping trials early, and a SHAM-PVI update are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers this week.
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I. Listener Feedback
Sep 13, 2024 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1001596
- Sripal Bangalore Tweet on Yusef Meta-analysis https://x.com/SripalBangalore/status/1750116964893094125
II. Post Cardiac Surgery AF
- TIGHT K Trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2823246
III. Evidence Base for New Cardiac Devices
- Annals of IM Survey Observational Study https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-24-00724
IV. Disparities in Care
- JAMA Network Open Paper on Insurer Denials of Preventive Care https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2823677
V. Stopping Trials Early
- Kaul and Butler; Insights on Recent CKD Trials https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.07.026
- Bassler Systematic Review https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/185591
VI. Sham PVI
AF Ablation Works…But: The Positive SHAM-PVI Trial
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/af-ablation-works-positive-sham-pvi-trial-2024a1000gzl?&icd=login_success_email_match_fpf
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| 0:45.0 | Hi everyone this is John Mandrola from the heart.org medscape |
| 0:49.8 | and this is this week in cardiology for September 19th, 2024. This week, listener feedback, potassium |
| 0:58.4 | levels after cardiac surgery, safety of cardiac devices, disparities in preventive care, and stopping trials early, as well as an update |
| 1:08.0 | on the Sham PVI trial. |
| 1:10.0 | First, let's do some listener feedback. |
| 1:12.0 | I received a nice comment on my discussion of the |
| 1:15.0 | Matterhorn trial which was trans-catheter edge-to-edge repair of the Mitroviral |
| 1:20.4 | versus Mitroviral Surgery in patients with functional mitral regurg. |
| 1:25.0 | The primary end point of a composite of death, heart failure, hospitalizations, |
| 1:30.0 | mitral valve reintervention, assist device implant, or stroke was better at one year in the trans-cathiter |
| 1:37.0 | edge-to-edge arm. It was 16.7 versus 22.5. |
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