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Heart Podcast episodes

March 25, 2015 Identifying low risk patients after a single high sensitivity troponin
Dr Alistair Lindsay speaks to Dr Edward Carlton about his published paper investigating whether a novel accelerated diagnostic protocol (ADP) for suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) could successfully identify low-risk patients suitable for discharge after a single high-sensitivity troponin T.
12 min
March 25, 2015 Coffee consumption and coronary artery calcium
Dr Alistair Lindsay spoke to Dr Eliseo Guallar about his study to nvestigate the association between regular coffee consumption and the prevalence of coronary artery calcium (CAC) in a large sample of young and middle-aged asymptomatic men and women.
Read the article here http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2015/02/06/heartjnl-2014-306663.full?sid=3959ea9e-52ba-4e69-97fa-1b55aa2b9738
8 min
January 22, 2015 Fitness and stress resilience in adolescence and coronary heart disease risk in middle age
Alistair Lindsay talks to Scott Montgomery, honorary professor
of epidemiology and public health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health, UCL, about his paper investigating physical fitness and stress resilience in adolescence and risk of coronary heart disease in middle age.
Read the paper:
http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2015/02/10/heartjnl-2014-306703
9 min
January 07, 2015 Adding ezetimibe to simvastatin: Results of the IMPROVE-IT trial
Alistair Lindsey talks to Christopher Cannon, Havard Clinical Research Institute, about the results of his IMPROVE-IT trial, which examined clinical outcomes of adding ezetimibe to simvastatin.
This podcast was recorded at the American Heart Association scientific sessions in Chicago.
7 min
November 14, 2014 Endothelial function in contemporary patients with repaired coarctation of aorta
Some studies have suggested endothelial dysfunction in adult patients after repair of aortic coarctation (CoA), and it has been proposed to play a key role in the pathogenesis of arterial hypertension in the absence of re-coarctation.
A study recently published in Heart aimed to assess the presence of endothelial dysfunction, the number of endothelial progenitor cells, and the levels of proinflammatory cytokines associated with endothelial injury in contemporary patients after CoA repair.
Alistair Lindsay discusses what the work revealed with lead author Robert Radke, Division of Adult Congenital and Valvular Heart Disease, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, University Hospital Muenster.
Read the full paper (for free):
http://goo.gl/z32cOl
13 min
October 03, 2014 New ESC Guidelines for aortic disease
The ESC has published new guidelines for diagnosis and management of thoracic aortic disease.
In this podcast, Catherine Otto asks Dr Iung, Professor of Cardiology, Bichat Hopital, Paris Diderot University, France, to summarise the key new points in these guidelines, specifically focusing on aortopathy in patients with bicuspid valve disease, and in those with Marfan syndrome and other inherited connective tissue disorders.
This podcast was recorded at the European Society of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions, Barcelona, Spain, August 2014.
6 min
September 26, 2014 Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in children and young adults
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Dr James Rudd, associate editor, sits down to talk with Prof Valentin Fuster, director of Mount Sinai Heart and physician-in-chief at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, at the ESC meeting in Barcelona.
They discuss his ground-breaking work in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in children and young adults across the world and the role of imaging in identifying early heart disease. Prof. Fuster also explains the rationale behind the polypill and how he came to have his own character on Sesame Street.
13 min
September 05, 2014 Risk models for pregnant women with congenital heart disease
In this podcast Catherine Otto speaks to Dr P G Pieper, Associate Professor of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands, about the recent paper in Heart on assessing the risk of pregnancy for women with congenital heart disease.
This study compared three different scoring systems and found that the WHO score provided the most accurate risk prediction. The importance of this issue is illustrated by the approximately 10% risk of maternal complications in this patient group.
This podcast was recorded at the European Society of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions, Barcelona Spain, August 31, 2014.
Read the original article:
Prospective validation and assessment of cardiovascular and offspring risk models for pregnant women with congenital heart disease http://heart.bmj.com/content/100/17/1373
11 min
September 01, 2014 ”Is climbing Everest good for my heart, doctor?”
Recorded at the 2014 British Cardiovascular Society meeting in Manchester, Heart associate editor Dr James Rudd talks to Dr Rob Casserley, summiteer of Everest, and his wife and cardiologist Marie-Kristelle Ross.
Rob initially worked as surgeon and is now a GP with a specialist interest in altitude and expedition medicine. He has climbed Everest eight times, including double summits in spring 2007 and spring 2010, and is the first-ever Western climber to have achieved this feat. He was been featured in "Everest ER", a BBC1 documentary series about medicine and climbing on Everest. He assisted Sir Ranulph Fiennes as doctor, guide and cameraman in a 2008 climb of Everest.
In this episode of the Heart podcast, they discuss high altitude, endurance sports and their effects on the heart and lungs in both health and disease.
22 min
August 26, 2014 Patient selection for transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Professor Vahanian, Bichat Hospital, Paris, France, is a world leader in management of patients with Valvular Heart Disease and is the lead author of the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines. In this interview, held during the Transcatheter Valve Therapeutics Meeting in Vancouver, Canada in June 2014, Professor Vahanian talks with Catherine Otto about the current approach to patient selection for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).
The availability of TAVI has transformed our approach to the elderly or high risk patient with severe aortic stenosis and the use of this technology continues to expand as technical issues are resolved and more data on valve durability is published.
Clinicians will want to keep up to date on the latest information so appropriate patients are referred for this life saving treatment.
To read more about transcatheter aortic valve implantation, see several recent articles in Heart:
Predictive factors of early mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: individual risk assessment using a simple score http://goo.gl/lcflnl
Predictors of 1-year mortality in patients with aortic regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: an analysis from the multicentre German TAVI registry http://goo.gl/WkfmM5
Aortic regurgitation severity after transcatheter aortic valve implantation is underestimated by echocardiography compared with MRI http://goo.gl/KIo6B4
Cardiac magnetic resonance versus transthoracic echocardiography for the assessment and quantification of aortic regurgitation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation http://goo.gl/YTcbaf
Original article: Device-dependent association between paravalvar aortic regurgitation and outcome after TAVI http://goo.gl/u5dK82
7 min

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