Apr 25 2025 This Week in Cardiology

AI and ECGs, novel ways to treat hypertension, combined lipid-lowering therapy after myocardial infarction, PFA and silent stroke, a move toward accountability in AF ablation, and pacing issues in TTVR are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

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I Help with ECGs in the ED

AI Shows Promise for Rapid NSTEMI Diagnosis

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/ai-shows-promise-rapid-nstemi-diagnosis-2025a10009pw

• Buscher et al https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf254

II A Novel way to Treat HTN

A Pacemaker to Control BP Gets FDA Breakthrough Designation

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/pacemaker-control-bp-gets-fda-breakthrough-designation-2025a10009t3

• JAHA paper https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.020492
• Backbeat https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06059638

III Type of PFA may matter for Silent Cerebral Lesions

• Paper https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCEP.125.013719

IV Accountability coming to US AF ablation

• Heart Rhythm Society Releases a Document on Establishing Centers of Excellence for AF ablation -- Press Release https://www.hrsonline.org/news/new-white-paper-on-atrial-fibrillation-centers-of-excellence/

V Pacing in Patients with Undergoing Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement

• Paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2025.02.004

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