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AHA 2022, Part 2: IRONMAN, ECMO-CS, CTS-AMI, and PROGRESSIVE AF are the trials John Mandrola, MD, reviews in this week's podcast.
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I. Pushback on PROMINENT
Zimerman Thread: https://twitter.com/AndreZimerman/status/1593019800036708353
II. IRONMAN
IRONMAN Galvanizes Case for IV Iron Repletion in Heart Failure
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/984030
Is Iron Replacement in Heart Failure Worth the Trouble?
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/983622
- Intravenous ferric derisomaltose in patients with heart failure and iron deficiency in the UK (IRONMAN): an investigator-initiated, prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint trial https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02083-9
III. ECMO-CS
Avoid Routine Early ECMO in Severe Cardiogenic Shock: ECMO-CS
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/983618
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the Therapy of Cardiogenic Shock: Results of the ECMO-CS Randomized Clinical Trial https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.062949
- Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Cardiogenic Shock and Cardiac Arrest https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.118.004905
IV. CTS-AMI
Chinese Herbal Medicine May Offer Benefits in STEMI: CTS-AMI
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/983619
V. PROGRESSIVE AF
First-Line AF Ablation Cuts Risk of Progression vs Drug Therapy
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/983882
Role of Ablation Type and Risk Factors in Paroxysmal AF: PROGRESSIVE-AF Interview https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/983474
- Cryoablation or Drug Therapy for Initial Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2029980
- Progression of Atrial Fibrillation after Cryoablation or Drug Therapy
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2212540
- Natural History of Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation Detected by Implanted Loop Recorders
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31779791/
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