Concentrating your physical activity as a "weekend warrior" has similar benefit to exercise spread across the week www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... #cardiosky

Presence of breast implants is associated with a higher likelihood of a positive stress test (OR 1.78; 95% CI, 1.11-2.26; P = .02), leading to more cath, but lower likelihood of PCI www.amjmed.com/article/S000... #cardiosky

The MHRA today released new guidance for #Phage therapy in the UK. This will provide direction for scientists and researchers working to make this treatment a reality for patients. 🔬 🧪 🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Why it is important to be aware of aortopathy in pregnancy: 5 learning points from Dr von Klemperer’s #BCS2025 talk 1) if a pregnant woman has an aortic dissection, there is a 20-50% mortality and significant morbidity #cardiosky 1/5

Reliable information on Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) for both pts and HCP: beatscad.org.uk Website highlighted by Dr Adlam at #bcs2025 #cardiosky #cardioed

If a woman had SCAD in pregnancy, how likely are they to have recurrent SCAD if they get pregnant again? ~9% risk, according to Dr David Adlam at #BCS2025 #cardiosky

Some interesting learning points from BCS 1) if new AF more than 24h (not 48h) then should do TOE or if on doac for more than three weeks 2) Anticoagulate all HCM with AF 3) CHADVA now not chadsvasc (removes ambiguity of female sex modifier)

Maths as a stressor to help increase HR for stress echo? Poster at #bcs2025 shows maths does increase HR… but doesn’t decrease need for dobutamine or atropine #cardiosky

What is being scanned in a London CMR scanner? Slide shared by Dr Dan Sado at #bcs2025 #cardiosky

Graph of NHS imaging activity in England - interesting slide shared by Dr Rebecca Schofield at #bcs2025

Use of echo in pts presenting to critical care with shock- the NEAT-ECHO study showed it altered management or aided diagnosis 54% of the time. Slide shared by Dr Ingram at #bcs2025 #cardiosky Link to study: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39158704/

Placebo control trials are standard for medications but not for procedures - Dr Al-Lamee (the force behind the Orbita trials) gave a persuasive talk at #bcs2025 about why placebo control trials for procedures are also needed. #cardiosky

If a screening test that is done over consecutive years has a false positive rate of 10%, by occasion 7 the prob of a false + is 0.522, therefore prep pts to ‘expect a false +’ Maths lesson at #bcs2025 by the superb @kityates.bsky.social #cardiosky #medsky

What are the benefits of GLP-1RA apart from weight loss? Great summary slide of RCT evidence shown by Prof Tan at #bcs2025 #cardiosky

Why treat obesity? Compelling slide shown by Prof Tricia Tan at #bcs2025 using a famous historical figure as an example. #cardiosky

The effect of sugar industry influence on a 1967 paper- money well spent in terms of impact on opinions for years to come. Slide shared be Dr Soukoulis at #bcs2025 #cardiosky

Prof Kotecha highlights possible targets to improve management of AF- @escardio.bsky.social guidelines discussed at #bcs2025 #cardiosky

DCCV: safety first! Remember risk of stroke: AF duration for unanticoagulated DCCV ⬇️to 24hrs in most recent @escardio.bsky.social guidelines. Slide shown by Prof Kotecha #bcs2025 #cardiosky

Ischaemic heart disease endotypes- great slide shared by Prof Colin Berry at #BCS2025 - note how small vessel disease is more common in women #cardiosky

The BCS annual conference seems a good time to try and find those in the UK cardiology community on BlueSky - here’s a starter pack of those I’ve found so far, any more? go.bsky.app/QdzJcFB

It’s BCS annual conference time! Looking forward to 3 days of learning and catching up with the cardiology community, and sharing on BlueSky some of the take home messages #cardiosky

I have promoted @drasifqasim.bsky.social to my colleagues for RCP president. Innovative, driven and engaged, all interactions I’ve had with him have been positive and he was generous in his support when I looked to him for advice whilst still a trainee. This is the kind of person RCP needs.

1/16 🤔Why does carcinoid syndrome affect the right heart valves more often than the left heart valves? The difference is striking. Let's have a look.

Patients in trials are not necessarily representative of the patient cohort treated in real life. The graphic below shows the average age of pts in various landmark #heartfailure trials -often significantly younger than the age of the pts we are applying this trial evidence to. #CardioSky

I once made a #shiny leaf plot app, demonstrating the relationship between prevalence/pre-test probability, sensitivity, specificity and post-test probabilities has moved! I’ve been very happy to hear some actually use it in #meded! lmsaxhaug.shinyapps.io/Leaf_App/ #rstats #imemcc #cardiosky #foamed

Great thread on LV thrombus and embolism risk - especially if RWMA I discuss lifelong anti coagulation with my pts even if it looks resolved on echo, good to have some data to help back this up 👇

Echo Evaluation of Chronic AR: Comparison With CMR & Implications for Guideline Recommendations #CardioSky #EchoSky #MedSky #JACCImg @jaccjournals.bsky.social @accintouch.bsky.social www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

Digoxin loading in critically ill pts- retrospective cohort study 👇 #CardioSky

Its back! Ten current papers for the curious cardiologist, including BP targets in T2DM, spiro post MI, left atrial appendage occlusion, coronary sinus reducer for angina, device detected AF & tirzepatide in HFpEF #CardioSky 1/11