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ACS in the Elderly
Author(s): Mansi Oberoi , Nitesh Ainani , J Dawn Abbott , et al Added: 1 year ago

MI/ACS
Sex Differences in Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
Author(s): Aishat F Mustapha , Anna M Goebel , Bryan J Wells Added: 6 months ago

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Atsushi Sakamoto , Anne Cornelissen , Yu Sato , et al Added: 2 years ago

Vascular Disease and Surgery
Author(s): Donald E Cutlip Added: 3 years ago
Stent thrombosis has been recognized as a serious complication of coronary stent placement since the procedure was first reported in the 1980s.1 Subsequent aggressive peri-procedural anti-thrombotic strategies with inpatient transition to warfarin reduced the risk to about 3.5 % for subacute (30-day) stent thrombosis,2,3 a rate that would be unacceptable by current standards and did not account… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions

Intervention
Author(s): Michael D McGoon Added: 3 years ago
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a hemodynamic condition defined by pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (PASP) above an upper limit of 35mmHg, or by pulmonary arterial mean pressure (PAMP) exceeding 25mmHg at rest.1,2 Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is present when pre-capillary pulmonary vascular pressure is elevated in the absence of pulmonary capillary wedge pressure >15mmHg, such as… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline on AF Diagnosis & Management
Author(s): Jose A Joglar Added: 2 months ago
Dr Jose Joglar (UT Southwestern, US) joins us virtually to discuss the 2023 guidelines for atrial fibrillation (AF) diagnosis and management.These guidelines are an update to the 2014 document covering the full spectrum of managing patients with AF, from prevention to lifetime interventions, to rhythm and rate control, as well as special populations. A new classification of AF has been created,… View more

Standards & Guidelines

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Author(s): Jagmeet P Singh Added: 3 years ago
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has achieved widespread approval as a safe and efficient therapeutic strategy for medically refractory congestive heart failure (CHF). The standard indications for CRT include patients with advanced heart failure and evidence of systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction [EF] ≤35%), conduction tissue disease (QRS duration ≥120ms), and marked cardiac symptoms … View more

Heart Failure

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Danielle Belardo
Job title: Director of Preventive Cardiology & Co-Director of Research and Education
Personal History Dr Danielle Belardo is a New Yorker who relocated to Philadelphia after college to start her medical career.1 She is now a Preventive Cardiologist based in Newport Beach, California.2 In college, she started volunteering at the Alzheimer’s Association and got involved with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s program to raise funds for the pediatric oncology unit at DuPont… View more
ESC 23: The PUSH-AHF Study
Author(s): Jozine ter Maaten Added: 7 months ago
ESC 2023 — Dr Jozine Ter Maaten (University Medical Centre Groningen, NL) joins us to outline the findings from the PUSH-AHF Study (NCT04606927). PUSH-AHF (University Medical Center Groningen) aimed to assess the effect of natriuresis-guided therapy in patients with acute heart failure to improve diagnostic response, decongestion and clinical outcomes. 310 patients with a primary diagnosis of… View more

Heart Failure
Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapy in ACS
Author(s): Colin T Phillips , Michael C Gavin Added: 3 years ago
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) occurs most often when a vulnerable intracoronary plaque ruptures or erodes to expose a prothrombotic core, precipitating thrombus formation by way of platelet activation,1–3 The spectrum of ACS includes non-ST segment-elevation (NSTE) ACS, where a vulnerable plaque threatens downstream coronary perfusion manifest as an increase in symptom frequency and/or duration … View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions

MI/ACS