As we near ten years since the first transcatheter aortic vale implantation, Alistair Lindsey, Heart’s JournalScan editor, talks to Philip MacCarthy, consultant cardiologist, King’s College Hospital, about his work examining how the ventricle responds following the procedure. See also: Successful transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is associated with transient left ventricular dysfunction http://bit.ly/12Fwwcf
Apr 23, 2013•17 min•Ep. 21
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. See also: Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 bit.ly/ZMGmUE
Apr 23, 2013•18 min•Ep. 20
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. See also: Postconditioning and protection from reperfusion injury: where do we stand? h...
Apr 23, 2013•12 min•Ep. 19
Michael Marber (professor of Cardiology at King’s College London) discusses reperfusion injury with Michel Ovize (professor at the Hôpitaux de Lyon). See also: 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
Apr 23, 2013•15 min•Ep. 18
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. See also: Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE
Apr 23, 2013•12 min•Ep. 17
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. See also: Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE
Apr 23, 2013•14 min•Ep. 15
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. See also: Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE
Apr 23, 2013•12 min•Ep. 16
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. Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE
Apr 23, 2013•13 min•Ep. 14
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. See also: 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...
Apr 23, 2013•9 min•Ep. 13
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 See also: Webcasts from all the sessions ...
Apr 23, 2013•21 min•Ep. 12
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 ...
Apr 23, 2013•17 min•Ep. 11
Jim Hall (British Cardiovascular Society vice president for training) talks to Tim Stephens (lead nurse for patient safety, Barts and the London) and Chris Sadler (consultant anaesthetist, director of the Medical Simulation Centre, Barts and the London) about how to make the Cath Lab safer through simulation, and the technical and non-technical aspects this involves. See also: Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012 http://bit.ly/ZMGmUE...
Apr 23, 2013•8 min•Ep. 10
Following on from their sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference, Alexander Lyon (senior lecturer in cardiology, Imperial College, London) talks to Christopher Breuer (director of tissue engineering, Yale University) and Alexander Seifalian (professor in the Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London) about how far we are from taking tissue engineering from the lab to the clinic. Professor Seifalian discusses his work using nanotechnology to build ...
Apr 23, 2013•9 min•Ep. 9
Where are we now with changing cholesterol levels to reduce cardiovascular disease risk? Keith Fox (British Cardiovascular Society president) asks Rory Collins (professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and co-director of the Clinical Trial Service, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford). Professor Collins talks about the evidence behind altering high- and low-density lipoproteins, why the issue of myopathy has been overstated, and our best treatment options now and for the...
Apr 23, 2013•9 min•Ep. 8
Guy Lloyd (consultant cardiologist in Eastbourne) talks to Marc Dweck (senior specialist registrar in cardiology, undertaking a PhD in aortic valve disease) about calcification in aortic stenosis. They discuss the importance of calcification in aortic valve disease, uses of different types of imaging, and possibilities for future therapies. See also: Dweck MR, Jones C, Joshi N, Fletcher AM, Richardson H, White A, Marsden M, Pessotto R, Clark JC, Wallace WA, Salter DM, McKillop G, van Beek EJR, B...
Apr 23, 2013•7 min•Ep. 7
Meeting up at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference, Philip MacCarthy (a cardiology consultant in London) talks to Alec Vahanian (professor of cardiology, Hôpital Bichat, Paris) about mitral regurgitation, including the importance of 3D echocardiography and how to categorise the disorder. They also discuss who needs intervention and what this should be, and the emerging percutaneous options. See also: Webcasts from all the sessions at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference 2012htt...
Apr 23, 2013•10 min•Ep. 6
In this podcast, Alistair Lindsay talks to Jennifer Logue about the link between obesity and heart disease. Increasing weight is associated with a higher prevalence of known risk factors for coronary artery disease, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol. And it has been assumed that these have been responsible for the increased risk of heart disease seen in obesity, say the authors. But now research published in Heart suggests that obesity is a killer in its own right, irrespecti...
Apr 23, 2013•13 min•Ep. 5
Alistair Lindsay talks to Maarten Leening (Erasmus MC, The Netherlands) about his research into the risk of heart failure following undiagnosed myocardial infarctions in elderly people. See also; Unrecognised myocardial infarction and long-term risk of heart failure in the elderly: the Rotterdam Study http://bit.ly/11z3tGg
Apr 23, 2013•13 min•Ep. 4
Alistair Lindsay talks to Declan O’Regan about assessing reperfusion injury using cardiac MRI in patients with acute MI. See also; Assessment of severe reperfusion injury with T2* cardiac MRI in patients with acute myocardial infarction http://bit.ly/14MsaUf
Apr 23, 2013•13 min•Ep. 3
Alistair Lindsay talks to Leong Ng about his work into using biomarkers to identify which groups of patients will benefit from ACE inhibition after acute coronary syndrome. See also: Identification of potential outcome benefit from ACE inhibition after acute coronary syndrome: a biomarker approach using N-terminal proBNP http://bit.ly/11hAfKc
Apr 23, 2013•11 min•Ep. 2
In this first edition of the BMJ Heart podcast, Alistair Lindsay talks to Peter Bramlage about his paper on how and when patients are treated after acute myocardial infarction, and the effect optical medical therapy can have on one year mortality. See also: The effect of optimal medical therapy on 1-year mortality after acute myocardial infarction http://bit.ly/Y1KOoj
Apr 23, 2013•14 min•Ep. 1
