Cardiac Consult: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast for Healthcare Professionals

Dr. Miriam Jacob discusses pulmonary hypertension with cardiac surgeon Dr. Michael Tong and pulmonologist Dr. Gustavo Heresi. Many topics are discussed including the complexity of evaluation and diagnosis, a review of the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension recommendations and what this means for diagnosis thresholds, approaches to medical therapy, surgery for those who have chronic thromboe...

Dr. Amar Krishnaswamy, MD, FACC, Interventional Cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic describes factors that play a role in deciding if an adult patient should have a PFO closure, and considerations when deciding whether PFO closure is the right course of action.

Steven Nissen, MD, sits down with Marc Gillinov, MD, Chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Brian Griffin, MD, Section Head Cardiovascular Imaging to discuss the timing of heart surgery, one valve at a time – the differences between aortic and mitral valves and regurgitation and stenosis. Changes in diagnostic imaging techniques, surgical and interventional options,...

Dr. Nicholas Smedira leads a panel of experts in the discussion of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). Cardiac surgeon Dr. Michael Tong, pulmonologist Dr. Gustavo Heresi, interventional radiologist Dr. Ihab Haddadin, and vascular medicine specialist Dr. John Bartholomew provide insight into topics clinicians need to know to manage patients with CTEPH: diagnosis of pulmonary embo...

Kate Patton, Med, RD, CCSD, LD, Preventive Cardiology and athlete nutrition expert from our Sports Cardiology Center discusses the impact of supplements and energy drinks on cardiovascular health and athletic performance and foods that provide sports performance benefits.

Cardiologist Dr. Tamanna Singh from our Sports Cardiology Center discusses diet and nutrition for optimal athletic performance, including nutritional sources, diet types and balancing nutrition for performance with nutrition for cardiovascular health as part of our Sports Cardiology Lecture Series.

Dr. Allan Klein, Director of the Cleveland Clinic Pericardial Disease Center introduces pericarditis cases, a discussion of various types of pericarditis including presentation, imaging, pathology, treatment and considerations. Robert Montgomery, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow presents a case of advanced pericardial constriction. Dr. Paul Cremer moderates a panel including cardiac surgeon Shin...

Dr. Deborah Kwon Director of MRI in the Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic answers questions about cardiac MRI: what is the best use? When should contrast be ordered? What is the latest research involving cardiac MRI? And - what clinicians should know about ordering MRI.

Dr. Allan Klein, Director of the Cleveland Clinic Pericardial Disease Center introduces pericarditis cases, a discussion of various types of pericarditis including presentation, imaging, pathology, treatment and considerations. Jay Ramchand, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow presents two cases of transient pericarditis. Dr. Paul Cremer moderates a panel including cardiac surgeon Shinya Unai, MD,...

Mazen Hanna, MD, Co-Director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Amyloidosis Center talks about the FDA’s recent approval of the drug Tafamidis for the treatment of ATTR Amyloidosis (also known as Amyloid Transthyretin Amyloidosis), the research behind it, what this medication does, and what this means for patients.

Richard Grimm, DO, Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory, and Helga Lombardo, RDCS, FASE Supervisor, Echocardiography Lab, discuss many aspects of running a successful high volume echo lab.

Dr. Milind Desai, Medical Director of the Aorta Center, discusses a recently published paper looking at a series of asymptomatic middle aged males who underwent chest computed tomographyalong with coronary artery calcium scoring as part of a comprehensive primary prevention evaluation. About 16% had a dilated aortic root when indexed to height. Dr. Desai discusses the implications of these finding...

A. Michael Lincoff, MD, Director of the Cleveland Clinic Coordinating Center for Clinical Research (C5Research), reviews the results from clinical trials presented at the 2019 American College of Cardiology Conference focusing on three major practice areas: 1) the use of transcatheter aortic valves (TAVR) in low risk patients (PARTNER 3, Evolut Low); 2) electrophysiology studies (Apple Heart, WRAP...

Luke Laffin, MD, cardiologist in the Section of Preventive Cardiology at Cleveland Clinic discusses his recently published paper with Stephanie Besser, MSA, MSPA, and Francis Alenghat, MD, PhD, from the University of Chicago which dove into the results of the SPRINT and ACCORD-BP trials to answer the question if trial results looking at a specific population of patients can apply to specific patie...

Steven Nissen, MD talks with Daniel Cantillon, MD, staff electrophysiologist and Medical Director for Cleveland Clinic’s Central Monitoring Unit about advanced approaches to telemetry monitoring for hospitalized patients. Dr. Cantillon leads a large central monitoring unit with sophisticated technology and risk stratification tools, triage algorithms and protocols and a well-trained staff. Dr. Can...

Dr. Venu Menon, Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Cardiovascular Fellowship Program talks with Dr. Anirudh Kumar, a second year cardiovascular fellow about his recent research related to two high risk populations of STEMI patients, those with cardiogenic shock and those who present with cardiac arrest who underwent PCI. The findings were shared related to short and long-term outc...

Eric Roselli, MD, Director of the Aorta Center at Cleveland Clinic leads the discussion on treatment of bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) disease. Joanna Ghobrial, MD discusses family screening; Leonardo Rodriguez, MD reviews clinical presentation; Milind Desai, M D discusses imaging; Douglas Johnston, MD covers valve choice in the young patient; Amar Krishnaswamy, MD & Samir Kapadia, MD covers pati...

Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Dr. Milind Desai discusses a paper published in JACC Imaging studying 865 patients who underwent aortic valve surgery with severe aortic regurgitation. Baseline ejection fraction and LV strain were studied pre-procedure and post procedure to look at the impact of these values and overall mortality. Dr. Desai discusses the findings of the study and implications for fut...

Dr. Lars Svensson, Chairman of the Sydell and Arnold Miller Heart and Vascular Institute discusses a recently published paper with Dr. Milind Desai, Medical Director of the Aorta Center, looking at a series of 491 Marfan Syndrome (MFS) patients who presented for both emergent and/or prophylactic aorta surgery. Dr. Svensson provides a review of the MFS guidelines regarding when to operate. Dr. Desa...

In honor of Heart Failure Awareness Week, Steven Nissen, MD, Chairman of the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic talks with Randall Starling, MD, MPH, President of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) and Jerry Estep, MD, Section Head of Heart Failure at Cleveland Clinic about what we need to know about heart failure – whether a patient or pr...

Dr. Steven Nissen discusses talks with Jerry Estep, MD, Section Head, Heart Failure and Transplantation and Edward Soltesz, MD, Surgical Director of the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure and Recovery about innovations in heart failure surgery, including changes in LVAD therapy and heart transplant making an impact on patient outcomes, when patients should be referred for advanced heart failure ther...

Dr. Steven Nissen discusses talks with Harvard Business School Professor Michael Tushman, and Cleveland Clinic cardiologists Dr. Samir Kapadia, Section Head, Interventional Cardiology, and Dr. Grant Reed, authors of a recently published paper focused on operational efficiency in the cath lab. They provide guidance on how to deliver high quality care in a cost effective manner.

Steven Nissen, MD discusses with Christine Jellis, MD, PhD the wide array of multi-modality imaging including the various types nuclear, echo, CT and MRI testing; the advantages and best use cases of each and how to manage special populations.

Oussama Wazni, MD, Section Head, Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing and electrophysiologist Walid Saliba MD discuss atrial fibrillation stroke prevention, and the role of left atrial appendage occlusion: outcomes noted at Cleveland Clinic, what to do in patients that are unable to take Coumadin due to risk of bleeding, FDA indications, new technology available and the role of LAA occlusion in li...

Dr. Leslie Cho, Section Head, Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation and Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Center discusses tips for health care providers in treating statin intolerance. She covers common issues such as symptom management, medication choices, titration of meds, monitoring patients on statins, and the role of PCSK9 medications.