Aug 26, 2022 This Week in Cardiology Podcast

Early rhythm control in AF, treating coronary artery disease before transcatheter aortic valve implantation, and an ESC 2022 preview are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in this week’s podcast.

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I. Early Rhythm Control

- Early AF Rhythm-Control Advantage Climbs With Comorbidity Burden: EAST-AFNET4 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/979627

- Early Rhythm Control in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and High Comorbidity Burden https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.060274

Early Rhythm-Control Therapy in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2019422

II. CAD and Aortic Stenosis

- No Survival Gains Seen From Pre-TAVR PCI of Complex CAD https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/979408

- The Effect of Coronary Lesion Complexity and Preprocedural Revascularization on 5-Year Outcomes After TAVR https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2022.06.019

- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With or Without Percutaneous Coronary Artery Revascularization Strategy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.005960

- ACTIVATION (PercutAneous Coronary inTervention prIor to transcatheter aortic Valve implantaTION): A Randomized Clinical Trial https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jcin.2021.06.041

III. ESC Trials

- Mandrola Previews His Top 5 Trials From ESC 2022 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/979560

TIME

- Bedtime dosing of antihypertensive medications: systematic review and consensus statement: International Society of Hypertension position paper endorsed by World Hypertension League and European Society of Hypertension https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35983870/

- Empirical Evaluation of Very Large Treatment Effects of Medical Interventions https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1386610

SECURE

- Polypill Strategy in Secondary Cardiovascular Prevention http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2208275