Feb 14 2025 This Week in Cardiology

Silent cerebral embolism after LAAC, AI in ECG rhythm analysis, anti-thrombotic strategies in patients with AF and CAD, and subclinical AF are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in today’s podcast.

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I. Silent Cerebral Embolism after LAAC

• JAHA Case Series  https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.124.037968
• JACC  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.12.039

II. AI Transforming Rhythm Monitor Reading

• Johnson and colleagues RCT https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03516-x

III. Anticoagulation Alone or OAC plus antiplatelets in patients with CAD and AF

• Rashedi and colleagues Meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2024.12.030
• AQUATIC https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04217447

IV. DOAC for Subclinical AF – A Subgroup Analysis of ARTESIA

Anticoagulation Uncertainty in Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/anticoagulation-uncertainty-embolic-stroke-undetermined-2024a1000h5e

• Lancet Neurology Subgroup Analysis of ARTESIA 10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00475-7
• ARTESIA https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2310234
• NOAH https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2303062
• RE-SPECT ESUS https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1813959
• NAVIGATE ESUS https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1802686

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