Sep 12 2025 This Week in Cardiology

More from ESC including: Valvular HD guidelines, a new drug class for HTN, myosin inhibition in HCM, vericiguat, and digoxin are the topic discussed by John Mandrola, MD. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic I New European Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines • 2025 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf194 • Debate: Does Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis Warrant Early Intervention? https://exp.medscape.com/debates/does-asymptomatic-aortic-stenosis-warrant-early-intervention/ • Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation during Mitral-Valve Surgery https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1500528 • Surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/eux336 II New Drug for Resistant HTN • Baxdrostat: A 'Game Changer' for Hypertension? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/baxdrostat-game-changer-hypertension-2025a1000mz7 • Efficacy and Safety of Baxdrostat in Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertension https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2507109 • Lorundrostat Efficacy and Safety in Patients with Uncontrolled Hypertension https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2501440 III HCM News at ESC • New Trials Clarify Role of Myosin Inhibitors for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-trials-clarify-role-myosin-inhibitors-hypertrophic-2025a1000myv • MAPLE HCM https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2504654 • SEQUOIA HCM https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2401424 • ODYSSEY HCM https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2505927 IV Vericiguat at ESC • New Data Said to Support Vericiguat as Standard Therapy for Heart Failurehttps://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-data-said-support-vericiguat-standard-therapy-heart-2025a1000mz9 • VICTOR https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01665-4 • VICTORIA https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1915928 • An individual participant data analysis of the VICTORIA and VICTOR trials https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01682-4 V More on Digoxin • RATE AF substudy https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.70022 • Main RATE-AF trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774407 • Efficacy of β blockers in patients with heart failure plus atrial fibrillation: an individual-patient data meta-analysis https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61373-8 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 news@medscape.net