Jun 26 2026 This Week in Cardiology

Jun 26 2026 This Week in Cardiology

From This Week in Cardiology by Medscape

June 26, 2026 · 34 min

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This episode discusses listener feedback on various cardiology topics including valvular heart disease and AI in ECG reading.

Listener feedback on valvular heart disease, statins and frailty, left atrial posterior wall ablation fails again, interpreting medical tests and AI ECG reading 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 PREVUE-VALVE Study https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2026.02.5137 II Statins and Frailty Statin Initiation Tied to Lower Frailty Risk in Older Adults https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/statin-initiation-tied-lower-frailty-risk-older-adults-2026a1000lec Statins and Survival Free of Incident Frailty https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehag451 III LA Posterior Wall Isolation Fails Again CORNERSTONE Trial https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehag486 CAPLA Trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2800186 IV Does the Display of Test Results Improve Clinical Decisions? Interval Likelihood Ratios for Clinical Decsion-Making https://evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/EVIDoa2500249 Making Sense of Health Statistics https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1539-6053.2008.00033.x V…

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Host: John Mandrola, MD

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Organizations: Medscape, JACC, NEJM, SAGE Journals, Nature, The New York Times

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