Jan 17 2025 This Week in Cardiology
Renal denervation, the obesity paradox, JACC and the FINEARTS trial of finerenone in HFpEF, a setback for a PFA system, and coffee are the topics Jon Mandrola, MD, covers this week. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic I. RDN CMS https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/ncacal-tracking-sheet.aspx?ncaid=318 Messerli https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.09.1244 Filippone https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2023.05.010 II. Finerenone FINEHEARTS -HF NEJM https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2407107 FIDELIO-DKD https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2025845 FIGARO-DKD https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110956 Why Have We Not Been Able to Demonstrate Reduced Mortality in Patients With HFmrEF/HFpEF? https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.08.033 Regional Variation TOPCAT https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.114.013255 Time from WHF Subanalysis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.09.004 REDEFINE - https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06008197 Health status paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.09.023 Obesity subanalysis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.10.111 Kidney outcomes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109724102525 Kidney outcomes 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.11.020 Kaul editorial https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.11.024 III. PFA Setback J&J Halts Varipulse Field Ablation for AFib https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/j-j-halts-varipulse-field-ablation-afib-2025a10000j8 IV. Coffee Stop the Coffee Studies https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/883709 Coffee drinking timing and mortality in US adults You may also like: The Bob Harrington Show with the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, Robert A. Harrington, MD. https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington Questions or feedback, please contact news@medscape.net