Arrhythmia & EP Perspective

 
 

  • Management of Post-COVID Cardiac Symptoms   How primary care physicians can evaluate and counsel patients with persistent cardiovascular symptoms after COVID.
  • Combating Stress and Tackling Cortisol With increasing stressors, controlling the stress hormone cortisol is more vital than before. Dr Guttenberg offers insight into the body's response to stress and tips on how to combat it.
  • Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescent Patients: What You Need to Know Here we will review the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of anorexia, with an emphasis on what pediatricians need to know to screen and to facilitate treatment.
  • Episode 1: Novel Treatments in MDD: Ketamine and Esketamine   Madhukar Trivedi, MD, and Manish Jha, MD, MBBS, review the evidence on the efficacy of esketamine and ketamine as a treatment for major depressive disorder.
  • Five New Neurology Studies: Possible Breakthroughs, Some Failures   Dr Christoph Diener on promising early results in muscular dystrophy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and discouraging ones for aducanumab.
  • Recurrent Atypical Chest Pain in a 62-Year-Old Woman A 62-year-old woman presents with atypical chest pain and mild shortness of breath manifesting with recurring, fleeting, dull, nonradiating pain, seemingly caused by high-stress environments. What's going on?
  • Diabetes & Kidney Disease: A Heart in Jeopardy: Helping a Hero   An Air Force veteran with CKD shares his experience managing multiple chronic conditions and participating in research trials.
  • HRS 2022 Taking Cardiac Pacing From Boring to Super-Cool Ablation has hogged the electrophysiology spotlight recently, but three presentations at the 2022 Heart Rhythm Society meeting put cardiac pacing on the comeback trail.
  • May 6 2022 This Week in Cardiology   HRS meeting presentations: conduction system pacing, AF in the ED, a possible new treatment for vagal bradycardia, and women in EP are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.
  • Adieu, Interventional Cardiology: My Journey to a New Ikigai How do you know when it's time to let go of a career path that was your raison d'etre? Health problems set this cardiologist on a spiritual journey to find out.
  • Key Points From the New Heart Failure Guidelines   Dr Ileana Piña discusses the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA heart failure guidelines and how they compare with the European guidelines and recent data on heart failure.
  • HRS 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from HRS 2022
  • Apr 22 2022 This Week in Cardiology   Critiques of last week’s comments on VT ablation and a review of EHRA presentations, including new ways to ablate atrial myocardium and pace the ventricle, are discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week’s podcast.
  • ECG Challenge: Slow Pulse on Routine Exam A 65-year-old with controlled hypertension has an unusually slow pulse. What does his ECG show?
  • Apr 15 2022 This Week in Cardiology   ACC Recap, Part 2: VT ablation, HF care, three-vessel disease, and patiromer are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in this week's podcast.
  • Benefit of SubQ Arrhythmia Monitoring Post-MI May Hinge on Risk   Drs Jagmeet Singh and Christian Jøns discuss results of the BIO|GUARD-MI study that used an insertable cardiac monitor to track arrhythmias in post-MI patients to see if treating them improved outcomes.
  • EHRA 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from EHRA 2022
  • The More You Know Your Patient, the Better Care You Can Give As visit times are compressed, it's hard to spend extra time with our patients. But can we afford not to?
  • ACC 2022 Mavacamten in HCM: Reasons for Optimism and Caution The novel drug helped patients avoid septal reduction therapy in the short term and approval looks likely, but more details and longer-term safety data will be needed before broader use, writes John Mandrola, MD.
  • A How-To Guide for Managing Gastroparesis   From excluding mimicking disorders to the emerging treatments with the most promise, Dr David Johnson surveys the latest recommendations for this common gastric syndrome.