#ESCCongress2024 #guidelines #AF

Do patients with AF mediated CM need to continue heart failure meds after AF ablation? Find out tomorrow #ESCCongress ⁦louise⁩ ⁦Sandeep Prabhu⁩ ⁦Heart Centre at the Alfred⁩

When it's night time 🌘 and your 53yo patient has incessant slow VT refractory to 💊, ⚡️, 💉, etc. 🌸First PFA application ➡️ Sinus rhythm 🌸 + 🏀 Inferior LV scar homogenization ✅ Non-inducible ⏳Skin-to-skin = 35mn w/ jonaz font 👏 And let's go back to bed 🛌😴

📌 Habemos Guías Nuevas 🇪🇺 de Angina Estable 🫀 (los clásicos nunca mueren) 📝Primeras impresiones y novedades-cambios en este hilo 🧵👇👇 En resumen, me parecen unas muy buenas GPC. Directas, claras, simplificando mensajes 🖖 #ESCCongress2024

Great talk by Carina Blomström-Lundqvist about AF burden as a critical endpoint in AF clinical trials - AF recurrence continues to progress whereas AF burden is dynamic and can regress with time #ESCCongress2024 peterkistler MBBS PhD FHRS Sandeep Prabhu Jason Andrade John Mandrola, MD

No role for empiric PWI in persistent AF: Long term outcomes at median 3.6 years from #CAPLA presented #ESCCongress ⁦Prash Sanders⁩ ⁦David Chieng⁩

Presentamos en #ESC2024 los resultados de KARDIOVER, monitorización 🫀📲en pacientes con FA programados a ⚡️CVE ambulatoria⚡️ Gracias a todos los amig@s que lo habéis hecho posible! Asociación del Ritmo Cardiaco Soc Esp Cardiología SIAC Unidad Integral de Cardiología - UICAR quirónsalud Hospital La Luz

Invasive Treatment Strategy for Older Patients with Myocardial Infarction: NEJM 🥸 Unlike Fire, SENIOR-RITA trial showed that invasive strategy did not results in lower CV death/MI in older pts >75 yrs!! 😱 Congratulations to Professor Vijay Kunadian and team 🥸 Summary 👇👇👇

MRA in HFrEF RALES 1999 ⬇️ ☠️ HR 0.70 (0.60-0.83) p<0.001 EMPHASIS-HF 2010 ⬇️ ☠️ HR 0.76 (0.62-0.93) p=0.008 Class 1 in guidelines for HFrEF Cost of Rx ~$40 per year Use in routine US clinical practice in eligible patients without CI/intolerance in 2024? <40% 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

CHA2DS2-VASc or a non-sex score (CHA2DS2-VA) for stroke risk prediction in AF: consistent with 2018 Heart Foundation CSANZ 2018 AF guidelines academic.oup.com/eurheartj/arti…

RAFT - Perm AF ⬇️⬇️ Amazing study showing no difference in mortality, HF events, LVEF and QOL improvement between CRT-D vs ICD in HF patients with permanent AF, wide QRS and impaired LV systolic function #ESCCongress #EPeeps

In SHAM-PVI PVI stands the test of placebo! Congratulations to the Rajdip Dulai and co-authors and a big thank you to patients tough enough to be willing to undergo such a study! #ESCCongress2024 Stefan Simović Dominik Linz

増田正晴 showing that low voltage areas are present in 25% of patients undergoing PVI. Randomizing these patients to PVI only or PVI + LVA ablation has no effect on AF free survival in SUPPRESS-AF. #ESCCongress2024 Stefan Simović Dominik Linz

practical important Aust study: fasting NOT required prior to cath laboratory procedures like CIEDs: the SCOFF trial Bradley Wilsmore academic.oup.com/eurheartj/arti…

⚡️Standard Defibrillator Leads for Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing: First... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… HDZ NRW Philipp Sommer Haran Burri Maxim Didenko, MD PhD AGEP Young DGK Pugal Vijayaraman Marek Jastrzębski Óscar Cano Kevin Vernooy EHRAPresident Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie Roderick Tung #LBBAP #epeeps

Pause-dependent initiation occurred in more than a quarter of arrhythmic episodes in idiopathic VF pts. PVCs having long (between 350 & 500 ms) & very long (>500 ms) coupling intervals were observed at the initiation of nearly a quarter of PVT episodes. bit.ly/47fRSCK

Vascular Access Complications Following Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Arrhythmias: Impact of Vascular Closure Devices HeartRhythm Cleveland Clinic Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Chadi Tabaja Oussama Wazni Ayman Hussein MD heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-…

The STRONG-HF trial made me think: "what are trials for?" Study of the Week: sensible-med.com/p/strong-hf-a-…

Really incredible work in JACC Journals on one-time lipid levels in young adults Look at HR for later ASCVD and events! So, what do we do about it?

An atrial extrasystole can trigger Torsades de Pointes #AHAJournals #Epeeps doi.org/10.1161/CIRCEP…