Heart Podcast

Mark de Belder (consultant cardiologist in Middlesbrough) talks to James McLenachan (consultant cardiologist in Leeds) and Keith Channon (professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford) about the pathophysiology and management of acute coronary syndromes.

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Guy Lloyd (a consultant cardiologist in Eastbourne) talks to Gerry McCann (a cardiologist in Leicester) and John Chambers (president of the British Heart Valve Society) about aortic valve disease.

They discuss stratifying cases by risk, myocardial fibrosis, the various assessments available, whether clinicians should be looking more to prescribe ACE inhibitors, and how best valve service should be configured.

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Postconditioning and protection from reperfusion injury: where do we stand? http://bit.ly/15EmdIy

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Michael Marber (professor of Cardiology at King’s College London) discusses reperfusion injury with Michel Ovize (professor at the Hôpitaux de Lyon).

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Postconditioning and protection from reperfusion injury: where do we stand?http://bit.ly/15EmdIy

Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE

Jim Hall (BCS vice-president for training, and chairman of the SAC) talks to Thanh Phan (SPL trainee from the Northern Deanery) about current issues in cardiology training. These include Workplace Based Assessments, clinical genetics, and workforce projections.

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Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE

Matthias Schmitt (cardiac magnetic resonance specialist, University Hospital of South Manchester) and Guy Lloyd (consultant cardiologist in Eastbourne) talk to William Zoghbi (president of the American College of Cardiology) about where we are going with cardiovascular imaging.

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Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE

Iain Simpson (vice president for Education and Research at the British Cardiovascular Society, and a cardiologist in Southampton) talks to Michael Joy (professor at the University of Surrey, and cardiologist to the Civil Aviation Authority) about his experience in interpreting the ECGs of pilots.

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Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE

Andrew Grace (consultant cardiologist, Cambridge) talks to Bill Stevenson (electrophysiologist from the Brigham Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School) about radiofrequency ablation in the context of ventricular fibrillation storms.

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Christopher Burrell (consultant cardiologist at the Southwest Cardiothoracic Centre, Plymouth) talks to Nick West (clinical lead for coronary intervention at Papworth Hospital and deputy chair of the BCS Working Group on Acute Cardiac Care) about the future of acute cardiac care in the UK.

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BCS Report on Coronary Care Units (Acute Cardiac Care) http://bit.ly/Zme8FL

Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE

Alistair Lindsay hosts a round table from the BCS conference in Manchester, on the topic of atherosclerotic plaque imaging; past, present, and future.

He is joined by:

Matthias Nahrendorf, Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University

Farouc Jaffer, Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Harvard University

James Rudd, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge

Robin Choudhury, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford

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Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE

Majmudar MD, Nahrendorf M Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging: The Road Ahead. J Nucl Med. 2012;53(5):673-676 - PMID: 22492729

Leuschner F, Nahrendorf M, Molecular imaging of coronary atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction: considerations for the bench and perspectives for the clinic. Circ Res. 2011;108(5):593-606 - PMID: 21372291

Sport was the theme of 2012’s British Cardiovascular Society Conference, and Sanjay Sharma (professor at the CRY Inherited Cardiac Diseases and Sports Cardiology Unit, St Georges Hospital) spoke about sudden cardiac death in athletes.

Christopher Burrell (consultant cardiologist at the Southwest Cardiothoracic Centre, Plymouth) caught him after the session to ask about the conditions which cause SCD, what to look out for on an athlete’s electrocardiogram or echocardiogram, and whether or not we should be screening.

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Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE