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Happy Holidays from the UIC Dept Pharmacy Practice Critical Care Crew! 🎄🎁 UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy UI Health

The fourth CV Diagnostics Webinar is Wednesday! Interesting reviews of stress testing and complex cath lab cases. Hope to see you there! American College of Cardiology IllinoisACC #ACCCVT Registration link ⬇️ ilacc.org/meetinginfo.ph…

fantastic review from some fantastic colleagues 👏🏻 Erika Hellenbart Rob DiDomenico Hema Krishna, MD MaryC_MD

Alteplase Purge Solution for Impella 5.5 asaiojournal Jimmy Zheng Impella purge system occlusion, often referred to as “Impella thrombosis” not always associated w/worse pump fxn/failure. We describe a case w/unchanged hemodynamics/flow + review of lit. journals.lww.com/asaiojournal/a…

new ACS guidelines! here I was thinking REDUCE-AMI would have been sufficient to re-consider beta blocker therapy in every ACS case 🤷🏻‍♀️

3 Pillars of Medical Therapy for HFmrEF/HFpEF *⃣ SGLTi + nsMRA + GLP-1 RA (if obesity) *⃣ The optimal strategy is simultaneous or rapid sequence initiation to all eligible patients, without delay. Gregg Fonarow MD Javed Butler Duke Clinical Research Institute JAMA Cardiology jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac…

Has a mentor made a positive impact on your career? Have you served as a mentor for others? The Student/Trainee Committee is excited to host a 1hr professional development session this month called "Mentorship Through the Career Stages". Please see attached flyer for details!

#ACC25 #STRIDE examined Semaglutide in PAD #LBCT 👟function impairment is common in PAD with limited Tx 👟93% completed trial, 1/3 women,~ BMI 28, functionally limited (0.1/mile) 👟Sema 💉🆚UC in T2DM+symptoms PAD: walking distance ⤴️ by 13% out to 1 year🤯💥

let’s welcome the newest drug in the #TeamMRA club, lorundrostat! now I’ll be waiting here for a head to head trial against spironolactone (will it even happen?). BP reductions and HyperK rates very similar to spironolactone in the PATHWAY-2 trial #ACC25

Catch me blasting #DAPAKUDURO for the rest of this conference. Such a great presentation and impressive results! Another win for SGLT2i, and importantly, in the elderly population #ACC25 #DAPATAVI

A #JACCAdvances updated network meta-analysis confirms that SAPT remains the safest choice for pts w/out indication for anticoagulation, significantly reducing 🩸 risk w/out 📈 mortality, #cvMI, or stroke risks. Personalized care remains essential. jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… #ACC25

go off sotatercept 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 what a powerful therapeutic option for patients with PAH! #ACC25 #ZENITH

a big thank you to Craig Beavers, PharmD, FACC, FAHA, FCCP, BCCP,CACP for giving me a the platform to talk about the #DAPATAVI trial (and you know I explain #DAPAKUDURO!). Looking forward to hearing all the other guests’ content! #ACC25

Tune in tomorrow (4/17) @ 12:30 PM CT for Dr. Emma Dittmar, UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy PGY2 🫀 resident, and her seminar on updates in AHF diuresis. You can also stick around for our PGY2 CC and EM residents’ talks as well and get some FREE CE! details (and Zoom link)👇🏼 ce.pharmacy.uic.edu/events/critica…

New chapter drop! Everything you need to know about lipids in primary and secondary prevention! whenthebeatdrops.org/content/lipids Stephanie Dwyer Kaluzna Avi Aronov

Finerenone in Heart Failure with Improved Ejection Fraction in #FINEARTSHF led by Maria A. Pabón, MD in JAMA Cardiology jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac…

🚨Our May Journal Club is TODAY 3 PM EST / 2 PM CST!🚨 Join us as Drs. Lauren Inglis and Paul Badua guide this month’s session focused on GLP-1 RAs—a timely and evolving topic! We’ll be discussing: ✏️STRIDE ✏️SUMMIT 🔗 See list serve for Zoom link #ACCP #CardsPRN #GLP1

End of the year PGY2 celebration dinner! Congratulations to Michelle Tsai (Critical Care), Natalie Pettit (Emergency Medicine), and Emma Dittmar (Cardiology) on such a successful year - so proud of all of you! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy UIC Dept Pharmacy Practice UI Health

Another great year calls for another Cards Cubs Game outing! Well, sort of. Did I buy tickets? Yes. Was it for the correct date? 🤐🥴 Congrats to Emma on a fabulous year! Excited to see what incredible things you accomplish as a 🫀pharmacist. She’s off to Michigan Medicine!

This week for our PGY2 CE Spotlight we are joined by Emma Dittmar! Emma goes over new evidence regarding urine sodium spot checks in the treatment of ADHF. Thank you Emma and her RPD Stephanie Dwyer Kaluzna, Stephanie Dwyer Kaluzna for collaborating with the PRN on this post! #CardioEd