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Heart Podcast episodes

January 14, 2018 Cardiac CT, NICE and chest pain - can we meet the demand for imaging?
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by cardiologist and cardiac CT expert Dr. Ed Nicol from The Royal Brompton Hospital, London. They discuss what the updated NICE guidelines for the assessment of stable chest pain mean for the UK imaging community. They also cover the differences between the UK, European and US guidelines and how technological developments in CT might help patients and save money. Please leave us a podcast review at itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/heart…id445358212?mt=2
Link to published papers and podcasts:
Podcasts on the NICE guidelines from authors for, and against, the new approach:
https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/assessing-stable-chest-pain-a-nice-win-for-ct?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/heart-podcast
https://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/stable-chest-pain-assessment-revisited-the-case-against-cardiac-ct?in=bmjpodcasts/sets/heart-podcast
Assessment of patients with stable chest pain : http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2017/10/30/heartjnl-2017-311212
Challenges in delivering computed tomography coronary angiography as the first-line test for stable chest pain : http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2017/11/14/heartjnl-2017-311846
24 min
January 02, 2018 Can we predict aortic stenosis progression using blood biomarkers?
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr James Rudd is joined by Dr Atul Anand from the University of Edinburgh. They discuss his recent research paper about using cardiac myosin-binding protein C as a marker of progression of aortic stenosis.
Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2017/12/01/heartjnl-2017-312257.
11 min
December 10, 2017 Inflammation and heart disease - what’s next?
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by a vascular biology legend, Professor Peter Libby from Harvard University and Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. They discuss how the inflammation hypothesis of atherosclerosis has been proven by the CANTOS trial and what the future might hold. We trust you'll enjoy the police sirens in the middle of the interview and hope you enjoy the discussion.
Link for CANTOS study - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1707914
16 min
November 15, 2017 Management of mature athletes with cardiovascular conditions
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Dr Andrew D'Silva, author of a comprehensive Education in Heart paper about assessing and treating older athletes with heart conditions.
Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2017/10/30/heartjnl-2016-310744
16 min
November 12, 2017 Gender differences in achieving secondary prevention targets - a comparison of three regions
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Professor Ian Graham, from Trinity College Dublin. Professor Graham is a world authority in preventative cardiology. They discuss the differences in reaching secondary prevention targets amongst men and women in three different areas of the world.
Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/103/20/1587
10 min
October 24, 2017 Pulmonary hypertension - a guide for cardiologists
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Professor Nick Morrell, a pulmonary hypertension expert from Cambridge, UK. First, they discuss the classification of pulmonary hypertension. They then move on to contemporary patient management and the latest in pulmonary hypertension research.
Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/102/20/1680 and to Professor Morrell's research lab - https://www.bhf.org.uk/research/our-top-professors/professor-nick-morrell
17 min
October 11, 2017 Olive oil, sunshine and a half hour walk - a conversation with Dr. Aseem Malhotra
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Dr. Aseem Malhotra from Lister Hospital, Stevenage, UK. They discuss what we should tell our patients about diet and exercise - high fat, low fat or something else?
Link to published paper: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111
16 min
September 12, 2017 CT-derived fractional flow reserve - are we there yet?
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Dr. Ronak Rajani from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. They discuss the clinical trials and applications of FFR CT.
Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/103/15/1216.long
15 min
August 22, 2017 Life on the conference trail - an ESC 2017 preview show with Shelley Wood from TCTMD.com
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Shelley Wood, a journalist and managing editor of TCTMD.com. They discuss how to get the most from a medical conference, what’s going to be big at ESC 2017 and why you should always pack your running shoes in your conference bag.
Link to TCTMD: https://www.tctmd.com/
14 min
August 14, 2017 Reuse of pacemakers, defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation devices
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Dr Raja Selvaraj from the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India. They discuss the pressing need for the reuse of cardiac devices in low and middle income countries and his research in this area.
Link to published paper: http://heartasia.bmj.com/content/9/1/59
13 min

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