Jun 13 2025 This Week in Cardiology

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. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic 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/ 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 [email protected]