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The treatment of asymptomatic aortic stenosis, the move to composite endpoints in trials, IFR vs FFR and high-frequency low tidal volume ventilation for AF ablation are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in today's podcast.
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I Aortic valve intervention for Asymptomatic AS
- Lindman editorial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2829881
- Trends https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11308430/
- Podcast EARLY TAVR Nov 8, 2024 This Week in Cardiology Podcast https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1001865
- Faith Healing and Subtraction Anxiety https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circoutcomes.118.004665
- Early TAVR trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2405880
- EVOLVED https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2825540
- AVATAR https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.057639
II Trial Endpoints
- Shepshelovich https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2830023
- Brown meta-analysis https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2785560
III IFR vs FFR—a debate b/w RCTs and observational data
- 5-year DEFINE https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2824470
- 5-year SwedeHeart IFR https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.12.030
- Eftekhari meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad582
- Gotberg SWEDEHEART Registry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2024.12.003
- Editorial of SWEDEHEART-Registry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2024.12.014
IV High-frequency low-tidal-volume ventilation for AF ablation
- Osorio et al https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2024.07.094
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