HeartSpeak

Alexander J. Sbrocchi, MD, a cardiac surgeon on the medical staff at Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital - Dallas and Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health, discusses aortic valve surgery, from symptoms and diagnosis to treatment, recovery and prevention.

El doctor Aldo Rafael, director médico del Instituto Cardiovascular Hispano del Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital - Dallas y cirujano cardíaco del personal médico de Baylor University Medical Center, habla de la cirugía de la válvula aórtica, desde los síntomas y el diagnóstico hasta el tratamiento, la recuperación y la prevención.

In this podcast, Medical Director for Sleep Center at Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital - Dallas, Dr. Eneida Harrison, will speak to primary care providers who may need information on the management of their patients with a suspected sleep disorder.  The American Heart Association recently included sleep health in their latest platform for heart health now called the Essential 8.

ECMO has gained national and international attention in the past few years because its usage to treat patients with COVID-19. But ECMO has been around long before the pandemic. So, what is ECMO?

Heart Failure impacts more than 6.5 million Americans.  For these patients, a change in lifestyle includes being mindful of dietary considerations when living with heart failure.  This podcast includes an explanation of why this is important and dietary suggestions including lowering sodium in the diet.

For advanced heart failure patients, treatment options may be challenging so a ventricular assist device, or VAD, might be an option to help support the heart. Dr. Meyer explains heart failure, VADS, and provides suggestions for physicians managing advanced heart failure patients or patients who might be candidates.

In this episode of HeartSpeak, Fort Worth advanced heart failure specialist and a medical director, Dr. Salman Gohar, discusses the care that is available at the advanced heart and lung center on the campus of Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center - Fort Worth.  Dr. Gohar will also review what an LVAD program is and how this is an important addition to the community.

In this episode, a cardiothoracic surgeon will discuss a fairly new treatment option for patients with chronic atrial fibrillation.

Interventional cardiologist who performed the first commercial procedure in Texas using the  Shockwave Intravascular Lithotripsy System explains its use for challenging coronary calcifications.

Scott Ewing, DO will be discussing a variety of tests that a physician may order for a patient in order to determine a cardiovascular issue and heart disease.