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A listener defends colored boxes in guidelines; mysteries of non-culprit coronary lesions during PCI, and of AF ablation; and surrogate markers are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in this week's podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

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I. Mystery of What to Do in the Cath Lab after Fixing the Culprit Lesion – The FULL REVASC Trial

Complete Revascularization Not Superior to Culprit-Only PCI After MI

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/complete-revascularization-not-superior-culprit-only-pci-2024a10007ik

• FULL REVASC Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2314149
• FIRE Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2300468
• COMPLETE Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1907775
• Cohen Tweet on FULL REVASC https://x.com/djc795/status/1781361606238085532

II. AF Ablation Mysteries

New Expert Consensus on Ablation Strategies for AF

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-expert-consensus-ablation-strategies-af-2024a1000851

• Bern Study of Remapping https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2024.02.026
• Natural History of SCAF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2019.09.050
• Liverpool Study: Thermal PV Isolation in Persistent AF https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2024.04.061

III. Surrogate Markers

• JAMA: Surrugate Markers and Clinical Outcomes https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817850
• BP Surrogate Meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00590-0
• JAMA: Nonfatal MI as Surrogate for Mortality https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2785560

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