The Weekly Huddle

Erectile dysfunction is often neglected in a cardiology OPD, or for that matter, most of the clinical encounters. ED becomes particularly relevant to discuss in patients with heart-related issues. Here, we discuss how to approach ED in a patient who just had a myocardial infarction.

Discussing hair loss (alopecia) in a person who relocated back to India after a long USA stay. Alopecia is very common in males and occasionally seen in females as well. While the issues are multifactorial, there seems to be a lack of understanding of how to approach and treat it. We will try to discuss certain aspects of it in this session.

Sinus tachycardia is omnipresent. Mostly it's a nuance rather than a major abnormality. Regardless, it deserves a systematic assessment and occasionally targeted therapy. In this session, we discuss how to approach a case of sinus tachycardia.

Physical exercise in patients with heart failure has been shown to improve both quality as well as quantity of life. While prescribing physical exercise is critical to any comprehensive heart failure management, there's a lot of subjectivity in how we prescribe it. A simple suggestion to 'do exercise' won't do the job.

So if ACE-inhibitor or ARB is indicated in a patient (say for heart failure), but serum potassium is at higher limits, should be start the drug, or should we first bring the potassium levels down first and then start the drug? Let us discuss this today.

In this 103rd session, we discuss the basics of osteoporosis; diagnostic algorithms relevant to the Indian context, and treatment strategies.

Statins are the mainstay of dyslipidemia therapy and are ubiquitous. But very often, statins can not be used, or are insufficient. This is where the challenge begins. Today, we discuss treatment of dyslipidemia beyond statins, with particular emphasis on Bempedoic acid

Should doctors do home visits, particularly after a patient's recent hospital admission? In this session, we discuss this crucial element in patient care, using a heart failure patient as an example.

In our centennial session, we discuss how to approach milder forms of Eosinophilia that we commonly encounter in our daily practice

In our 99th session, we discuss the implications of incidentally detected fatty liver on ultrasound, and risk mitigation strategies.