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This Week in Cardiology

Sep 29 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

Medscape Podcasts

Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness

4.9963 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Reader feedback, leadless pacing, ABIM, SGLT2 inhibitors, peri-operative MI after cardiac surgery, and. AHA late-breakers are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in this week's podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit:

https://www.medscape.com/twic

I. Reader Feedback

Sep 22, 2023 This Week in Cardiology Podcast

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/996694

-   ODYSSEY OUTCOMES trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1801174

-   FOURIER https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1615664

II. Leadless Pacing

-   Leadless vs Transvenous Pacemaker Study https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euad269

III. ABIM News

Heart Societies Ready to Split From ABIM Over Long-Standing MOC Disputes

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/996747

IV. SGLT2 inhibitors

Empagliflozin Gets FDA Nod for CKD Without T2D or HF

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/996873

-   EMPA-Kidney https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2204233

V. Peri-Op MI after Cardiac Surgery

Cardiac Troponin Predicts Mortality Post Surgery

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/996877

-   Austrian Perioperative MI study https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2023.07.011

-   Vision  https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2000803

VI. AHA Late Breakers

-   Link to Late-Breakers https://professional.heart.org/en/meetings/scientific-sessions/programming/late-breaking-science#late-breaking

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart

0:03.4

org medscape cardiology this podcast is intended for health care

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professionals only any views expressed are the presenters own and do not

0:11.2

necessarily reflect the views of WebMD or Medscape.

0:15.1

You can now access the latest in medical news on your Amazon Alexa-enabled device.

0:19.7

Join me, Perry Wilson, every weekday morning for Medscape Medical Minute where I highlight the top

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medical stories of the day.

0:26.6

To add Medscape Medical Minute to your flash briefing, search for Medscape Medical

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Minute on Amazon and click enable or open the Amazon Alexa app go to skills

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search for Medscape Medical Minute and click enable then say Alexa what's the

0:40.1

news or Alexa what's my flash briefing I hope you'll join us.

0:44.0

Hi everyone this is John Mandrola from the heart

0:47.7

or medscape and this is this week in

0:51.0

creology for September 29th, 2023.

0:55.0

This week I'll do some reader feedback, talk about leadless pacemakers,

1:01.0

A BIM, SGLT 2 and Ambition, Parioperative M I after cardiac surgery, and the AHA has announced

1:11.0

their late-breaking clinical trials for meeting coming up in six weeks.

1:16.0

First, some reader feedback.

1:19.0

Matt Gross left a comment reminding me that I misspoke regarding the Alarocumab trial called Odyssey

1:25.1

Outcomes. I said that CB death and death were similar but in fact Matt was

1:30.9

right that overall death was actually lower in the Alarokima group. It was 3.5 versus 4.1 percent.

1:39.0

I also agree with Matt that this was a likely spurious finding as there was no difference in

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