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Sep 12
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Sep 12 2025 This Week in Cardiology

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More from ESC including: Valvular HD guidelines, a new drug class for HTN, myosin inhibition in HCM, vericiguat, and digoxin are the topic discussed by John Mandrola, MD.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

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I New European Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines

  • 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease  https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf194
  • Debate: Does Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis Warrant Early Intervention? https://exp.medscape.com/debates/does-asymptomatic-aortic-stenosis-warrant-early-intervention/
  • Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation during Mitral-Valve Surgery https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1500528
  • Surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/eux336

II  New Drug for Resistant HTN

  • Baxdrostat: A 'Game Changer' for Hypertension? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/baxdrostat-game-changer-hypertension-2025a1000mz7
  • Efficacy and Safety of Baxdrostat in Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertension https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2507109
  • Lorundrostat Efficacy and Safety in Patients with Uncontrolled Hypertension https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2501440

III HCM News at ESC

  • New Trials Clarify Role of Myosin Inhibitors for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-trials-clarify-role-myosin-inhibitors-hypertrophic-2025a1000myv
  • MAPLE HCM https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2504654
  • SEQUOIA HCM https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2401424
  • ODYSSEY HCM https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2505927

IV Vericiguat at ESC

  • New Data Said to Support Vericiguat as Standard Therapy for Heart Failurehttps://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-data-said-support-vericiguat-standard-therapy-heart-2025a1000mz9
  • VICTOR https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01665-4
  • VICTORIA https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1915928
  • An individual participant data analysis of the VICTORIA and VICTOR trials https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01682-4

V More on Digoxin

  • RATE AF substudy https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.70022
  • Main RATE-AF trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774407
  • Efficacy of β blockers in patients with heart failure plus atrial fibrillation: an individual-patient data meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61373-8

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