Sep 19 2025 This Week in Cardiology

More trials at ESC, including PARACHUTE HF, DAPA ACT HF-TIMI 68, AMALFI, and a super-interesting modeling study of when to start oral anticoagulants in AF, are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast.

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I PARACHUTE HF

First Evidence of Treatment Benefit in Chagas Heart Failure

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/first-evidence-treatment-benefit-chagas-heart-failure-2025a1000oem

• PARACHUTE-HF https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jchf.2024.05.021

II SGLT2i Early Initiation — DAPA ACT HF-TIMI 68 Trial

Trial Data Support In-Hospital Initiation of SGLT2 Inhibitors for Heart Failure https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/trial-data-support-hospital-initiation-sglt2-inhibitors-2025a1000o5q

• DAPA ACT HF-TIMI 68

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.125.076575

III AMALFI Trial of AF Screening

Remote ECG Screening Ups Atrial Fibrillation Detection ‘Modestly’ https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/remote-ecg-screening-ups-atrial-fibrillation-detection-2025a1000myx

• AMALFI Trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2838482
• STROKESTOP Trial https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(21)01637-8/fulltext
• LOOP Trial 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01698-6 External Link

IV Finding that Sweet Spot of Stroke Risk Threshold for Starting DOAC therapy

• Stroke Risk Threshold for non-Vitamin K Antagonist OAC in AF https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.125.012090
• Variations in Rates of Stroke Across Patients With AF https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.116.024057

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