{"id":1417,"date":"2010-01-26T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/tuesday-january-26-news-roundup-liraglutide-approved-rf-ablation-for-af-3-d-images-in-the-cath-lab\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:05","slug":"tuesday-january-26-news-roundup-liraglutide-approved-rf-ablation-for-af-3-d-images-in-the-cath-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/01\/26\/tuesday-january-26-news-roundup-liraglutide-approved-rf-ablation-for-af-3-d-images-in-the-cath-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, January 26 News Roundup: Liraglutide Approved; RF Ablation for AF; 3-D Images in the Cath Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liraglutide Approved: <\/strong>Late Monday, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/NewsEvents\/Newsroom\/PressAnnouncements\/ucm198638.htm\">FDA announced that it had approved liraglutide<\/a> (Victoza, Novo Nordisk) for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but not for initial therapy. The label contains a black-box warning about thyroid cancers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catheter Ablation of AF: <\/strong>Results of <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/303\/4\/333\">the industry-funded&nbsp;ThermoCool AF Trial were published in&nbsp;<em>JAMA<\/em><\/a>. Trial investigators randomized 167 patients with paroxysmal AF unresponsive to 1 or more drugs to either catheter ablation or drug therapy.&nbsp;\u201cCatheter ablation provided significantly better rhythm control and improved [quality of life] with a favorable safety profile. These findings argue for early use of catheter ablation therapy in patients with paroxysmal AF unresponsive to initial attempts with pharmacologic control,&#8221; the authors concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3-D Cath Lab Images:<\/strong>&nbsp;A&nbsp;feasibility study in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/circinterventions.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.109.897629v1\"><em>Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions<\/em>&nbsp;<\/a>examined the first use in humans of a new system&nbsp;that automatically generates computer-reconstructed 3-D images in the cath lab using rotational angiography and ECG-gated iterative reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liraglutide Approved: Late Monday, the&nbsp;FDA announced that it had approved liraglutide (Victoza, Novo Nordisk) for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but not for initial therapy. The label contains a black-box warning about thyroid cancers. Catheter Ablation of AF: Results of the industry-funded&nbsp;ThermoCool AF Trial were published in&nbsp;JAMA. Trial investigators randomized 167 patients with paroxysmal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}