Heart Podcast

Dr Alistair Lindsay speaks to Dr Corina Grey, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, about her recent study looking at long-term adherence to statins in ACS patients.

Read the full paper: http://goo.gl/KF3NAK

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is related to aortic dilatation, but patterns/rates are conflicting with no comparison among aneurysms of different aetiology.

In this podcast Alistair Lindsey talks to Hector Michelena from the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the Mayo Clinic about his research published in heart.bmj.com

Read the full research: http://heart.bmj.com/content/100/2/126.full

At the 2013 Uruguayan Society of Cardiology meeting in Montevideo, Dr Robert Bonow, Professor of Cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, gave a talk on aortic valve stenosis.

In this podcast he and Catherine Otto, discuss some of the new concepts in diagnosis and management of the condition.

Read the full research onine: http://heart.bmj.com/content/99/22/1675

Dr Joao Lima, from the Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balitmore, and colleagues set out to evaluate the benefit of niacin in addition to statin therapy on plaque regression among older individuals with established atherosclerosis.

They used MRI to more measure the plaque volume, and in this podcast Dr Lima explains to Laura Templer why that's a more accurate measure than the surrogates used in previous studies.

Read the full research online: http://heart.bmj.com/content/99/23/1734

In 2010, the Department of Health in England introduced an incentivised national target for National Health Service (NHS) hospitals aiming to increase the number of patients assessed for the risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE) associated with hospital admission.

Will Lester, from the Quality and Outcomes Research Unit at the University Hospital Birmingham, and colleagues assessed the impact of this initiative on VTE mortality and subsequent readmission with non-fatal VTE.

He joins Alistair Lindsey to talk about the study.

Catherine Otto, Heart's editor in chief, interviews April Stempien-Otero from the University of Washington, at the American Heart Association meeting in Dallas.

They discuss Dr Stempien-Otero's late breaking clinical trial, presented at the meeting, which looks at the use of bone marrow derived stem cells, and their use in ischemic cardiomyopathy with LVAD bridge to transfer.

Patrick Calvert interviews Alain Cribier, Director of Cardiology at Charles Nicolle Hospital, University of Rouen in France, and pioneer in the field of aortic and mitral valvuloplasty.

Patrick Calvert interviews Alec Vahanian, Head of the Cardiology Department, Bichat University Hospital, Paris at the annual British Cardiovascular Society meeting in London.

Alistair Lindsay interviews Anthony De Maria, director of the Cardiovascular Center at the UC San Diego medical school, and current Editor in Chief of JACCE.

As we near ten years since the first transcatheter aortic vale implantation, Alistair Lindsey, Heart’s JournalScan editor, talks to Philip MacCarthy, consultant cardiologist, King’s College Hospital, about his work examining how the ventricle responds following the procedure.

See also:

Successful transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is associated with transient left ventricular dysfunction http://bit.ly/12Fwwcf