Mayo Clinic Talks

Dr Bernard Gersh talks to Dr Barry Borlaug about the intricacies of diagnosis and treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF), traditionally known as diastolic heart failure.

Dr Michael Ackerman, professor of medicine, pediatrics, and pharmacology, with a particular interest in cardiac arrhythmias, joins the show to discuss heritable arrhythmia syndromes.

What are the best methods for implementing TAVI? What can we learn from the adoption of TAVI in Europe? Dr David Holmes, immediate past president of the American College of Cardiology, discusses his thoughts with Dr Bernard Gersh.

Cardiac stem-cell research has come a long way, offering new insights into cardiac cell repair therapy. Dr Robert Simari, vice chair of the division of cardiology at Mayo Clinic and chair of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) self-therapy research consortium, joins the show to provide a retrospective look at the past 10 years of study and discuss new directions in research.

What's the pulse of cardiology today? American College of Cardiology president Dr David Holmes talks to Dr Bernard Gersh about the past year in cardiology addressing the challenges of practice, education and learning, reimbursement, and appropriateness criteria and what it all means for the practice and discipline of tomorrow.