426. Case Report: A Ruptured Saccular Aortic ...

CardioNerds Drs. Dinu Balanescu, Billy-Joe Mullinax, and Mariana Garcia discuss systemic thrombolysis in pulmonary embolism with expert Dr. Allison Burnett. Audio editing by CardioNerds Academy intern, student doctor, Pace Wetstein. Pulmonary embolism is the third leading cause o ...  Show more

CardioNerds (Drs. Natalie Marrero, Shivani Reddy, and Rebecca S. Steinberg), discuss the role of SGLT2i in cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD) with Dr. Manu Murali Mysore. This episode was produced as part of the CardioNerds Academy curriculum by House Taussig unde ...  Show more

It’s 2 a.m. The on-call resident’s voice is shaky.The CT shows an 18cm abdominal aortic aneurysm with a Type 1B endoleak. There’s gas in the sac, fluid in the belly, and the patient has a defibrillator on both sides of his chest. Is it a rupture? A graft infection? An aortoenteri ...  Show more

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Educational Pearls:

Aortic injury occurs in 1.5-2% of patients who sustain blunt thoracic trauma

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 ...  Show more

A new trial assessed whether balloon angioplasty plus aggressive medical management was superior to aggressive medical management alone for patients with symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis. Author Zhongrong Miao, MD, PhD, from Beijing Tiantan Hospital, discusses ...