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Feb 3 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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Is Beta Blocker Use a Class One Indication?

Most patients with heft-paff have no class one indication for beta blocker use, right? Beta blockers remain strongly indicated when there is LV dysfunction and sinus rhythm. Other conditions such as CAD, hypertension and AFib do not compel us to use beta blockers. A friend Sergio Pinsky, electrophysiologist, we consider him the John Roberts of EP. He's noted No evidence supporting a drug use and Patients often feel better. Okay, now to the trial again. This group screened about 1,500 patients with heaft-paff and randomized 107 so yes that's a select group but you have to have a pacemaker that allowed increasing rates without causing more RV-dis

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