Description

Listener feedback on cardiac sarcoidosis, SA node ablation, surgical AF ablation, chronic kidney disease protection, and recruiting for clinical trials are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

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I Listener Feedback

• EHJ paper Mathijssen et al https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf338
• Nordenswan et al https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCEP.117.006145#tab-contributors

II IST

• HR Case Reports https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrcr.2025.05.017
• Lakkireddy et al https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2021.07.010

III Survival After Surgical AF ablation during CABG

• McClure et al https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/eux336
• Schaffer et al https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.03.044

IV Finerenone with Empagliflozin in CKD and DM

• The Confidence Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2410659

V Recruiting for Important Trials and the Stature of EP as a Profession

Two UK Cardiology Trials Struggle to Recruit Patients

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/two-uk-cardiology-trials-struggle-recruit-patients-2025a1000ffs

• CRAFT HF https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06505798
• BRITISH https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2023.09.008
• PROFID https://profid-project.eu/profid-ehra-trial/

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