Archive - Dr. Anish Koka's Newsletter

The WATCHMAN, Left Atrial Appendage Occluder, and Device Related Thrombosis

The left atrial appendage dangles off the left atrial chamber in the heart and has long been suspected of being a nidus for clot that can break off and…

Dec 13, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

July 2023

Outpatient vascular care : Good, bad or ugly?

Filling in the holes of recent stories in the New York Times, and Propublica on the outpatient care of patients with peripheral arterial disease

Jul 23, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

Reviewing the all-in-pod heart health segment

The All-in podcast is a fairly popular show that features successful silicon valley investors commenting about everything worth commenting on from…

Jul 16, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

June 2023

Vaccine myocarditis update from Korea

A national study from Korea published in the European Heart Journal sheds important new light on complications related to COVID vaccine related…

Jun 5, 2023

May 2023

Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

A review of the recent chest pain guidelines reveals ideology overshadows science

May 16, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

April 2023

Operation Searchlight

The American supported Pakistani genocide you probably haven't heard about

Apr 17, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

Affirmative action in Medicine : A forbidden debate?

What the reaction to an affirmative action paper tells us about the institution of Medicine in America today

Apr 10, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

March 2023

A big data COVID train wreck

If there was any doubt the academic research enterprise is completely broken, we have an absolute train wreck of a study in one of the many specialty…

Mar 5, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

February 2023

A COVID19 vaccine exemption letter

I recently saw a young man who came to see me because his place of future employment, a large health system was requiring him to complete the 1º series…

Feb 20, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

Myocarditis update from Sweden

Vaccines, not COVID were responsible for a surge in myocarditis cases

Feb 13, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

COVID-19 myocarditis illusions

A new cardiac MRI study raises questions about the diagnosis

Feb 6, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

January 2023

The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER

Reanalysis of a trial used to approve a commonly used injectable cholesterol lowering drug confirms the original analysis by accident

Jan 18, 2023 •

Anish Koka MD (Cardiology)

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