Dr Alistair Lindsay speaks to Dr Tomasz Baron about his research which aimed to assess differences in incidence, clinical features, current treatment strategies and outcome in patients with type 2 vs. type 1 acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Full paper found here >> http://heart.bmj.com/content/101/2/101.full?sid=e9538ca9-604b-40af-95a7-c03f016f4c2e
Frailty in older age is known to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. However, the extent to which frailty is associated with the CVD risk profile has been little studied. Dr Alistair Lindsay talked to Dr Sheena Ramsay about her study and the clinical implications of the results. The original paper can be found here: http://heart.bmj.com/content/101/8/616.full?sid=767613b9-71bb-41af-80e8-361647c03828
Dr Alistair Lindsay speaks to Dr Edward Carlton about his published paper investigating whether a novel accelerated diagnostic protocol (ADP) for suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) could successfully identify low-risk patients suitable for discharge after a single high-sensitivity troponin T.
Dr Alistair Lindsay spoke to Dr Eliseo Guallar about his study to nvestigate the association between regular coffee consumption and the prevalence of coronary artery calcium (CAC) in a large sample of young and middle-aged asymptomatic men and women. Read the article here http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2015/02/06/heartjnl-2014-306663.full?sid=3959ea9e-52ba-4e69-97fa-1b55aa2b9738
Alistair Lindsay talks to Scott Montgomery, honorary professor of epidemiology and public health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health, UCL, about his paper investigating physical fitness and stress resilience in adolescence and risk of coronary heart disease in middle age. Read the paper: http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2015/02/10/heartjnl-2014-306703
Alistair Lindsey talks to Christopher Cannon, Havard Clinical Research Institute, about the results of his IMPROVE-IT trial, which examined clinical outcomes of adding ezetimibe to simvastatin. This podcast was recorded at the American Heart Association scientific sessions in Chicago.
Some studies have suggested endothelial dysfunction in adult patients after repair of aortic coarctation (CoA), and it has been proposed to play a key role in the pathogenesis of arterial hypertension in the absence of re-coarctation. A study recently published in Heart aimed to assess the presence of endothelial dysfunction, the number of endothelial progenitor cells, and the levels of proinflammatory cytokines associated with endothelial injury in contemporary patients after CoA repair. Alista...
The ESC has published new guidelines for diagnosis and management of thoracic aortic disease. In this podcast, Catherine Otto asks Dr Iung, Professor of Cardiology, Bichat Hopital, Paris Diderot University, France, to summarise the key new points in these guidelines, specifically focusing on aortopathy in patients with bicuspid valve disease, and in those with Marfan syndrome and other inherited connective tissue disorders. This podcast was recorded at the European Society of Cardiology Annual S...
In this episode of the Heart podcast, Dr James Rudd, associate editor, sits down to talk with Prof Valentin Fuster, director of Mount Sinai Heart and physician-in-chief at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, at the ESC meeting in Barcelona. They discuss his ground-breaking work in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in children and young adults across the world and the role of imaging in identifying early heart disease. Prof. Fuster also explains the rationale behind the pol...
In this podcast Catherine Otto speaks to Dr P G Pieper, Associate Professor of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands, about the recent paper in Heart on assessing the risk of pregnancy for women with congenital heart disease. This study compared three different scoring systems and found that the WHO score provided the most accurate risk prediction. The importance of this issue is illustrated by the approximately 10% risk of maternal complications in this patient group....
Recorded at the 2014 British Cardiovascular Society meeting in Manchester, Heart associate editor Dr James Rudd talks to Dr Rob Casserley, summiteer of Everest, and his wife and cardiologist Marie-Kristelle Ross. Rob initially worked as surgeon and is now a GP with a specialist interest in altitude and expedition medicine. He has climbed Everest eight times, including double summits in spring 2007 and spring 2010, and is the first-ever Western climber to have achieved this feat. He was been feat...
Professor Vahanian, Bichat Hospital, Paris, France, is a world leader in management of patients with Valvular Heart Disease and is the lead author of the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines. In this interview, held during the Transcatheter Valve Therapeutics Meeting in Vancouver, Canada in June 2014, Professor Vahanian talks with Catherine Otto about the current approach to patient selection for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). The availability of TAVI has transformed our ap...
In this interview held during the Transcatheter Valve Therapeutics Meeting in Vancouver, Canada in June 2014, Heart editor Catherine Otto talks to Ted Feldman, Evanston Hospital. Professor Feldman is one of the leaders in the field of transcatheter mitral valve repair, and discusses patient selection, procedural aspects and intermediate term outcomes with this exciting new therapy. Clinicians will find this brief summary useful as this new technique offers a therapeutic options for many of our p...
Recorded at the 2014 British Cardiovascular Society meeting in Manchester, Heart associate editor Dr James Rudd talks to Dr Arthur Yue, consultant electrophysiologist at the University Hospital of Southampton. In this podcast, they discuss the expanding roles of electrophysiological specialists in managing arrhythmias, accessory pathways and the new upcoming NICE guidelines on atrial fibrillation.
Extensive research has established that physical activity is inversely associated with the risk of developing cardiovascular disease in healthy adults. In patients with manifest cardiovascular disease, current clinical practice guidelines recommend encouraging patients to undertake daily moderate intensity physical exercise for secondary prevention. While such recommendations are based on numerous clinical trials clearly showing that exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation improves prognosis in he...
Experimental and epidemiological studies have provided evidence of associations between air pollution and cardiovascular health. More pollution-related deaths occur from heart disease than from any other cause. A recent study in Heart aimed to further current understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms by examining the strength and specificity of acute relationships between ambient air pollution and a range of CVD events. The key mechanistic question addressed is whether events of clear throm...
In this podcast Heart editor in chief Catherine Otto, discusses patient prothesis mismatch with Professor Philippe Pibarot, Directeur, Chaire de Recherche du Canada sur les Maladies Valvulaires Cardiaques, after he presented a commentary on the issue at the Transcatheter Valve Therapies meeting in Vancouver, Canada on June 5, 2014. Aortic valve stenosis is prevalent in the elderly and valve replacement for severe symptomatic obstruction improves symptoms and prolongs life. However, some patients...
Heart failure (HF) self-care matters, but what matters most in HF self-care? To inform the design of future interventions and promote effective HF self-care, a systematic review of qualitative studies has recently been published in Heart. This examines patients’ and caregivers’ needs, experiences and preferences regarding the nature and determinants of HF self-care. Alistair Lindsay talks to co-author Alexander Clark, professor in the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, about the findings...
This podcast discusses the 3rd Joint British Societies’ (JBS) consensus recommendations, released on 26th March 2014. These eagerly anticipated guidelines incorporate much of the recent research in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, and include a new risk calculator for physicians. Heart’s social media editor, Dr Alistair Lindsay, discusses the most important points of the recommendations with Dr Iain Simpson, President of the British Cardiovascular Society and a member ...
In this podcast, Philip Urban, Cardiovascular Department, Hôpital de La Tour, Geneva, discusses the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI). Read the related paper: Validity of Charlson Comorbidity Index in patients hospitalised with acute coronary syndrome. Insights from the nationwide AMIS Plus registry 2002–2012 http://goo.gl/Kjpj0l
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major public health problem not only in developed but also in developing countries.1 CHD rates in Japan are uniquely low compared to the USA and other developed countries. In a paper in April's Heart, Akira Sekikawa and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh looked at whether serum concentrations of long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCn3PUFAs) contribute to the difference in the incidence rate of coronary artery calcification (CAC) between Japane...
Catherine Otto, Heart editor, talks to Greg Roth from the Division of Cardiology at University of Washington about his editorial which appears on heart.bmj.com and discusses prescription of statins after an acute myocardial infarction.
Dr Alistair Lindsay speaks to Dr Corina Grey, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, about her recent study looking at long-term adherence to statins in ACS patients. Read the full paper: http://goo.gl/KF3NAK
Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is related to aortic dilatation, but patterns/rates are conflicting with no comparison among aneurysms of different aetiology. In this podcast Alistair Lindsey talks to Hector Michelena from the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the Mayo Clinic about his research published in heart.bmj.com Read the full research: http://heart.bmj.com/content/100/2/126.full
At the 2013 Uruguayan Society of Cardiology meeting in Montevideo, Dr Robert Bonow, Professor of Cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, gave a talk on aortic valve stenosis. In this podcast he and Catherine Otto, discuss some of the new concepts in diagnosis and management of the condition.
Read the full research onine: http://heart.bmj.com/content/99/22/1675 Dr Joao Lima, from the Division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balitmore, and colleagues set out to evaluate the benefit of niacin in addition to statin therapy on plaque regression among older individuals with established atherosclerosis. They used MRI to more measure the plaque volume, and in this podcast Dr Lima explains to Laura Templer why that's a more accurate measure than the surrogates used in previous stu...
Read the full research online: http://heart.bmj.com/content/99/23/1734 In 2010, the Department of Health in England introduced an incentivised national target for National Health Service (NHS) hospitals aiming to increase the number of patients assessed for the risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE) associated with hospital admission. Will Lester, from the Quality and Outcomes Research Unit at the University Hospital Birmingham, and colleagues assessed the impact of this initiative on V...
Catherine Otto, Heart's editor in chief, interviews April Stempien-Otero from the University of Washington, at the American Heart Association meeting in Dallas. They discuss Dr Stempien-Otero's late breaking clinical trial, presented at the meeting, which looks at the use of bone marrow derived stem cells, and their use in ischemic cardiomyopathy with LVAD bridge to transfer.
Patrick Calvert interviews Alec Vahanian, Head of the Cardiology Department, Bichat University Hospital, Paris at the annual British Cardiovascular Society meeting in London.
Patrick Calvert interviews Alain Cribier, Director of Cardiology at Charles Nicolle Hospital, University of Rouen in France, and pioneer in the field of aortic and mitral valvuloplasty.
