Listener feedback on cardiac sarcoidosis, SA node ablation, surgical AF ablation, chronic kidney disease protection, and recruiting for clinical trials are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.

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I Listener Feedback

EHJ paper Mathijssen et al https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf338
Nordenswan et al https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCEP.117.006145#tab-contributors

II IST

HR Case Reports https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrcr.2025.05.017
Lakkireddy et al https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2021.07.010

III Survival After Surgical AF ablation during CABG

McClure et al https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/eux336
Schaffer et al https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.03.044

IV Finerenone with Empagliflozin in CKD and DM

The Confidence Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2410659

V Recruiting for Important Trials and the Stature of EP as a Profession

Two UK Cardiology Trials Struggle to Recruit Patients

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/two-uk-cardiology-trials-struggle-recruit-patients-2025a1000ffs

CRAFT HF https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06505798
BRITISH https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2023.09.008
PROFID https://profid-project.eu/profid-ehra-trial/

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