Mar 11, 2025

Hosts Mitsuaki Sawano, MD, and Shun Kohsaka, MD, FACC, discuss the end of Skype and before welcoming Dr. Nobuyuki Kagiyama, MD (Juntendo University), to explore findings from the SONIC-HF Registry on the prognostic value of diaphragm ultrasound in heart failure patients. The episode covers ultrasound...

Mar 10, 2025

Listen to the editor's page of the March 18th JACC issue, Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, and Kushal T Kadakia, MSc, examine the troubled history of the Select IVC filter, a device approved by the FDA in 2007, which was later linked to severe safety issues due to clinical trial misconduct and regulatory oversights. In this...

Mar 10, 2025

In this episode, Dr. Valentin Fuster highlights key research from the March 18th, 2025 issue of the JACC. The studies cover groundbreaking findings in heart failure management, genetic testing in cardiovascular diseases, the effectiveness of a new drug for amyloidosis, and the cardiovascular harm caused by...

Mar 10, 2025

In this episode, Dr. Valentin Fuster discusses a study on sodium zirconium cyclosilicate (SZC) for managing hyperkalemia in heart failure patients on mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) like spironolactone. While SZC effectively reduced hyperkalemia and allowed higher spironolactone doses, concerns over...

Mar 10, 2025

In this episode, Dr. Valentin Fuster discusses a 14-year study on the clinical impact of genetic testing for inherited cardiovascular diseases, conducted by Dr. Steffany Grondin at the Montreal Heart Institute. The study found that genetic testing helped diagnose 24% of patients, refine clinical management, and improve...