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MDedge Cardiocast

MDedge Cardiocast is the weekly news podcast from Cardiology News hosted by interventional cardiologist Jim Dwyer, MD. Subscribe now.

The information in this podcast is provided for informational and educational purposes only.

Oct 26, 2018

Why wire-dependent fractional flow reserve may soon be obsolete; stroke risk after a myocardial infarction goes on three times longer than previously thought; poststroke dual-antiplatelet therapy should be cut short; and emergency departments are seeing results from greater use of high-sensitivity troponin T in...


Oct 19, 2018

This week, a revelation that coronary artery bypass grafting instead of percutaneous is safer as time goes by, a new index stretches the prognostic power of cardiac CT, a weight-loss drug cuts new-onset diabetes, and a controversial diet score is...


Oct 12, 2018

Angiography shouldn't end with a diagnosis of nonobstructive CAD, NSAIDs show cardiovascular and renal safety in the short term, a registry analysis supports use of direct oral anticoagulants over warfarin, and IVUS-guided stent placement bests...


Oct 5, 2018

This week, the dangers of yo-yoing metabolic factors, adding an antiplatelet to oral anticoagulation does no good in atrial fib patients who’ve undergone stenting, how pill burden affects the ability to reach systolic BP control, and expert advice on how to get on top of home BP...