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Jun 2023
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June 2 This Week in Cardiology

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About this episode

Listener feedback on the most important study in a decade, MONITOR-HF, a flawed paper and analysis, and the tension between pathos and logos are the topics John Mandrola, MD discusses 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. Listener Feedback

Earlier Anticoagulation Safe in Stroke With AF: ELAN

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/992411

- Early versus Later Anticoagulation for Stroke with Atrial Fibrillation

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2303048

- Fibrinolysis or Primary PCI in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1301092

II. Monitor HF

CardioMEMS Boosts QoL, Curbs HF Hospitalizations: MONITOR-HF

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/992333

- Remote haemodynamic monitoring of pulmonary artery pressures in patients with chronic heart failure (MONITOR-HF): a randomised clinical trial

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00923-6

- Remote pulmonary artery pressure monitoring in heart failure care: part of the new normal?

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01010-3

- Sowell's A Conflict of Visions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Conflict_of_Visions

III. Intensive BP Treatment in Older Patients – Pathos vs Logos

- Clinical Outcomes of Intensive Inpatient Blood Pressure Management in Hospitalized Older

Adultshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2805021

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Medscape editor-in-chief Eric Topol, MD, and master storyteller and clinician Abraham Verghese, MD, on Medicine and the Machine

https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine

The Bob Harrington Show with Stanford University Chair of Medicine, Robert A. Harrington, MD.

https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

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