This Week in Cardiology5 Dec 2025

Dec 05 2025 This Week in Cardiology

Less is more after PCI, the TARGET-FIRST trial, a negative blood pressure trial that is actually positive, aspirin vs OAC for bleeding, AEDs, and Factor XI is not dead yet are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD, on this week's podcast.

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I Less is More: TARGET-FIRST

TARGET-FIRST Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2508808
STOPDAPT-2 ACS Trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2789701

II A Negative Trial That Is Actually Positive

The RETREAT-FRAIL Study https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2508157

III Major Bleeding With Aspirin vs Apixaban

Subanalysis of ARTESiA https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2841075
ARTESiA Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2310234
AVERROES Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1007432

IV High Value Interventions – The AED

Experts Call for AED Placement on All Commercial Aircraft https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/experts-call-aed-placement-all-commercial-aircraft-2025a1000xzf

In-Flight Sudden Cardiac Arrest and AED Use 10.1016/j.cjca.2025.10.010 External Link

V Factor XI Inhibitors – OCEANIC STROKE trial

Bayer Press Release on Asundexian https://www.bayer.com/en/us/news-stories/oceanic-stroke

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