Listener feedback on sports "disqualification," big digoxin news, Brugada syndrome, another positive finerenone study, and unblinded transcatheter trials are discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast.

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I Listener Feedback

• JACC EP Paper https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacep.2025.03.013

II Digoxin News

• DIGIT HF Baseline Characteristics paper https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.3679
• DIGIT HF Rationale paper https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6607489/
• Dig trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199702203360801
• DECISION trial https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejhf.3428
• Ziff et al BMJ meta-analysis https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h4451

III Brugada Syndrome

• Gomes et al https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euaf091

IV Another Finerenone Substudy Published

• FINEARTS-HF trial substudy, Bhatt, A et al https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2025.05.006
• FINEARTS HF Main paper https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2407107
• TOPCAT https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1313731
• TOPCAT regional variation Circ paper https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.114.013255

V Another Opinion on Unblinded Transcatheter Intervention Trials

• Kaul https://eurointervention.pcronline.com/article/unblinded-trials-of-transcatheter-interventions-with-subjective-endpoints-what-are-the-implications

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