Heart podcast

Heart podcast

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Heart podcast episodes

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Losing control - Arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy
    In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Professor Pier Lambiase from Bart's Heart Centre and University College London. They discuss arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy - its causes, incidence, treatment and outcomes.
    Link to published paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/103/19/1543.
    12 min
  • 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
  • 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
  • How does going to space affect our health?
    In this episode of the Heart podcast, Digital Media Editor Dr. James Rudd is joined by Professor Benjamin Levine from UT Southwestern Medical Center, Texas. They discuss the physiological challenges presented by space travel and how astronauts can adapt. And James discovers he could still become an astronaut (at least as far as his heart is concerned) - there’s hope yet!
    Link to authors details: http://profiles.utsouthwestern.edu/profile/14262/benjamin-levine.html
    13 min

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