AudioScholar Cardiology Weekly (India)

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Cardiology — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed cardiology literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc. Indian-English narration.

  1. 1d ago

    This Week in Cardiology — Aug 17, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Cardiology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning risk stratification with biomarkers and body measurements, imaging to guide decisions in chest pain and cardiomyopathy, and therapeutics ranging from finerenone i… This week's papers: 1. Finerenone and apparent treatment-resistant hypertension in heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction. — European Journal of Heart Failure 2026 2. Vutrisiran Treatment and Changes in Cardiac Parameters and Amyloid Burden Assessed by Cardiovascular MRI. — JAMA Cardiology 2026 3. Cold and Room-Temperature Platelets in Cardiac Surgery: The CHIPS Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 4. Coronary calcium scoring in the evaluation of stable chest pain in general practice: a cluster-randomised trial. — Heart 2026 5. NT-proBNP in relation to clinical characteristics and cardiovascular outcomes in non-anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation. — Heart 2026 6. Longitudinal Changes in Heart Stress and the Risk for Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Older Adults: An Observational Study. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 7. Risk Reclassification Beyond BMI by Waist Circumference and Waist-to-Hip Ratio Across 9 Cardiovascular Outcomes: Results From the Cross-Cohort Collaboration. — Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2026 8. Oral anticoagulants, cognition, and clinical outcomes in atrial fibrillation and Alzheimer's disease: a Swedish nationwide study. — European Heart Journal 2026 9. Gender-related risk of myocardial infarction and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis: a Danish population cohort study. — European Heart Journal 2026 10. The Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension International Risk Score: A Prediction Model for Outcomes Using Machine Learning. — Circulation 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/3kshes2mmp

  2. Aug 11

    This Week in Cardiology — Aug 10, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Cardiology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning heart failure — from what actually drives the benefit of our drugs to how outcomes have changed over a decade — plus anticoagulation and thrombotic risk in two ve… This week's papers: 1. Cognitive Impairment and Frailty in Older Adults With Cardiovascular Disease: 2026 ACC Scientific Statement: A Report of the American College of Cardiology. — Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2026 2. Real-World Effectiveness and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Mitral Stenosis: A Target Trial Emul… — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 3. Effects of pharmacological blood pressure lowering in heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction: a meta-analysis. — Heart 2026 4. Utility of Prognostic Staging Systems in Transthyretin Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy in the Era of Available Disease-Modifying Treatment. — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 5. Temporal comparison of clinical practice and outcomes in heart failure: the JROADHF and JROADHF-NEXT studies. — European Heart Journal 2026 6. How Would You Manage Perioperative Cardiovascular Risk for Noncardiac Surgery in This Patient With Complex Comorbidity? Grand Rounds Discussion From Beth Israe… — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026 7. Real-World Diagnostic Performance of Repeat Transthoracic Echocardiography Within a Multimodality Imaging Approach in Patients With Suspected Infective Endocar… — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 8. Early Decline in Serum Haptoglobin During Impella CP Support Compared With Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump in Cardiogenic Shock: A Single-Center Observational Study. — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 9. Endometriosis and long-term risk of venous thromboembolism: a Danish nationwide study. — European Heart Journal 2026 10. General and Exertional Fatigue, Quality of Life, and Risk of Incident Clinical Heart Failure in Those With Pre-heart Failure in the ARIC Study. — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/n687zb6983

  3. Aug 4

    This Week in Cardiology — Aug 3, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Cardiology. This week we're covering nine notable papers spanning interventional and surgical revascularisation, cardiomyopathy imaging and pharmacotherapy, and the harder questions of anticoagulation, mechanical support, and… This week's papers: 1. Multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting via small thoracotomy versus sternotomy (MIST): an investigator-initiated, international, open-label, randomised co… — Lancet 2026 2. Left Ventricular Hypertrabeculation and Prognosis in Dilated Cardiomyopathy. — Circulation 2026 3. Long-Term Impact of Aficamten on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Results From FOREST-HCM. — European Journal of Heart Failure 2026 4. Impact of Drug-Coated Balloon Inflation Time on Outcome After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: An Observational Study From SCAAR. — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 5. Stopping Oral Anticoagulation After Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With High Risk of Stroke: STOP-OAC Study. — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 6. Left Ventricular Unloading With Impella Versus Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump in Cardiogenic Shock Requiring Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 7. Association Between Heart Failure Medications and Outcomes in Patients With Cardiac Sarcoidosis and Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction: Insights From ILLUMI… — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 8. Side effects in hypertension treatment: a pharmacogenomic analysis. — European Heart Journal 2026 9. Mineralocorticoid receptor overactivation in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. — European Heart Journal 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/cbd4fc6ufm

  4. Jul 21

    This Week in Cardiology — Jul 20, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Cardiology. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning major updates in lipid and preventive guidelines, new insights into heart failure management and phenotyping, and advances in vascular and coronary interventions.… This week's papers: 1. Implications of the 2026 Dyslipidemia Guideline for Primary Prevention Statin Therapy — JAMA 2026 2. Global Cardiology Groups Issue New Universal Definition of Heart Failure — JAMA 2026 3. Drug-coated balloons versus drug-eluting stents for de novo coronary lesions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials — Heart 2026 4. Initiation, Adherence, and Persistence to Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy After Heart Failure Hospitalization — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026 5. What to Know About the First CKM Syndrome Guidelines — JAMA 2026 6. Cardiovascular Risk Reclassification With the 2026 Dyslipidemia Guideline — JAMA 2026 7. Peripheral artery disease: advances in medical therapy — European Heart Journal 2026 8. Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association — Circulation 2026 9. Diagnostic Approach to Cardiac Sarcoidosis — Circulation 2026 10. Does Characterization of Phenotypic Heterogeneity Provide Mechanistic Insights or Influence the Response to Treatment? Experience in Positive and Neutral Trial… — Circulation 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/42zd8ggmrd

  5. Jul 14

    This Week in Cardiology — Jul 13, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Cardiology. This week we're covering nine notable papers spanning advanced heart failure management, novel cardiovascular risk factors, and evolving frameworks for lifelong care. Let's dive in. We begin in the realm of advanc… This week's papers: 1. Prognosis of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism During Extended Apixaban Therapy for Cancer-Associated Thrombosis: Insights From the API-CAT Randomized Trial. — Circulation 2026 2. Comparison of Outcomes of Leadless Versus Transvenous Pacemakers Following Tricuspid Valve Surgery. — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 3. First Italian multicentre registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (ITAMACS) report: 12-year experience of over 1000 durable LVAD patients. — European Journal of Heart Failure 2026 4. World Heart Federation Roadmap on cardiac rehabilitation: a pathway to lifelong cardiovascular health. — Nature Reviews Cardiology 2026 5. Transforming Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Key Milestones and Future Perspectives. — Circulation 2026 6. Longitudinal Changes in Frailty and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease. — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 7. Association Between Endometriosis and Cardiovascular Disease: Insights From the UK Biobank. — Journal of the American Heart Association 2026 8. Serum transthyretin as a staging biomarker in ATTR cardiomyopathy: promise, limitations, and the path forward. — European Journal of Heart Failure 2026 9. Causes of congenital heart disease: an integrative narrative review. — Heart 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/pg8xj6k9y6

  6. Jun 30

    This Week in Cardiology — Jun 30, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Cardiology. This week we are covering eight notable papers spanning major updates in heart failure definitions, evolving antithrombotic and antiplatelet strategies, and precision cardio-oncology. Let us dive in. We begin with… This week's papers: 1. AHA/ACC/ESC/WHF Expert Consensus Document: Second Universal Definition of Heart Failure (2026) — European Heart Journal 2026 2. Antiplatelet Therapy in the Management of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: 2026 ACC Scientific Statement: A Report of the American College of Cardiology — Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2026 3. Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Primary and Secondary Prevention of Thrombotic Events: 2026 ACC Scientific Statement: A Report of the American College of Cardiol… — Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2026 4. Weight loss, exercise haemodynamics, and health status with incretin therapy for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and obesity — European Heart Journal 2026 5. Cliramitug for depletion of cardiac amyloid transthyretin: long-term follow-up of the NI006-101 trial — Nature Medicine 2026 6. High serum transthyretin concentrations identify a low likelihood of advanced myocardial amyloid burden in suspected ATTR cardiomyopathy — European Journal of Heart Failure 2026 7. Cardiac remodelling and dysfunction in cancer patients receiving cardiotoxic therapies: proteomic and metabolomic profiling — European Heart Journal 2026 8. Inclusive cardiovascular care for sexual and gender minority populations — Nature Reviews Cardiology 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/ekr7nu7hjr

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Cardiology — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed cardiology literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc. Indian-English narration.