Apr 26 2024 This Week in Cardiology This Week in Cardiology

A listener defends colored boxes in guidelines; mysteries of non-culprit coronary lesions during PCI, and of AF ablation; and surrogate markers are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in this week's podcast.
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I. Mystery of What to Do in the Cath Lab after Fixing the Culprit Lesion – The FULL REVASC Trial
Complete Revascularization Not Superior to Culprit-Only PCI After MI
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/complete-revascularization-not-superior-culprit-only-pci-2024a10007ik
FULL REVASC Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2314149 FIRE Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2300468 COMPLETE Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1907775 Cohen Tweet on FULL REVASC https://x.com/djc795/status/1781361606238085532 II. AF Ablation Mysteries
New Expert Consensus on Ablation Strategies for AF
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-expert-consensus-ablation-strategies-af-2024a1000851
Bern Study of Remapping https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2024.02.026 Natural History of SCAF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2019.09.050 Liverpool Study: Thermal PV Isolation in Persistent AF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2024.04.061 III. Surrogate Markers
JAMA: Surrugate Markers and Clinical Outcomes https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817850 BP Surrogate Meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00590-0 JAMA: Nonfatal MI as Surrogate for Mortality https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2785560 You may also like:
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