Heart failure and transplantation with Dr Ileana Piña

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.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 04, 2022
ACC 2022 SODIUM-HF Simplifies Message to Patients on Diet Drs Ileana Piña and Justin Ezekowitz discuss results from the SODIUM-HF trial, which investigated the effects of a pragmatic intervention to reduce dietary sodium intake in patients with heart failure.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 08, 2022
Is It Time to Redefine Iron Deficiency? Ileana Piña was intrigued by a paper questioning whether the definitions of iron deficiency used in HF trials and guidelines are the best ones.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 22, 2022
AHA 2021 CHIEF-HF: No-Touch Initiation of Canagliflozin Improves QoL Ileana Piña and Eldrin Lewis discuss a novel, all-virtual trial of the SGLT2 inhibitor canagliflozin in patients with heart failure.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 24, 2021
ESC 2021 Heart Failure Drug Management Tips and Tricks Drs Ileana Piña and Carolyn Lam discuss how they juggle all the drugs indicated for patients with heart failure.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 29, 2021
ESC 2021 AVANTI: Could a 'Vaptan' Replace Loop Diuretics in Acute HF? Ileana Piña and investigator James Udelson discuss the phase 2 AVANTI trial presented at ESC on a novel 'vaptan' drug.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 17, 2021
ESC 2021 Empagliflozin in HFpEF: Putting EMPEROR-Preserved in Context Javed Butler discusses the details of the trial on empagliflozin in HFpEF with Ileana Piña and what might be learned from the subgroup analyses.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 31, 2021
ESC-HFA 2021 Can We Agree on a Universal Definition of Heart Failure? Ileana Piña speaks with Professor Andrew Coats about the universal definition of heart failure and upcoming guidelines from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.
Experts And Viewpoints, July 22, 2021
ACC 2021 REHAB-HF Lays Groundwork for Recovery of Function Post HF Ileana Pina speaks with Dalane Kitzman about a tailored strategy of physical rehabilitation to improve balance, strength, mobility, and endurance after acute HF.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 24, 2021
ACC 2021 Sacubitril/Valsartan: Trending Toward PARADISE Post MI? PARADISE-MI fell short on statistical significance but investigator Marc Pfeffer is persuaded by trends for clinical benefit. The key: 'Start the drug early and sustain it,' he tells Ileana Pina.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 19, 2021
What to Know About New Hypertension Guidelines in CKD Dr Ileana Piña asks Dr Peter A. McCullough what physicians need to know about heart failure and kidney disease, and the new hypertension guidelines in chronic kidney disease.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 13, 2021
HFpEF: Do We Really Know What It Is? Ileana Piña discusses phenotypes of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in the context of recent data from PARAGON-HF.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 29, 2021
When the Patient Is the Best Practice Alert: EPIC-HF Helping patients be proactive before their cardiology appointments can facilitate better management of HFrEF, says Larry Allen, lead author of EPIC-HF.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 11, 2021
Hispanics and CVD: Country of Origin Matters Hispanic, Latino -- the lingo and migratory patterns have changed over time, which is why clinicians should not assume that all patients share the same risk profiles, cautions Ileana Piña, MD.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 22, 2020
ESC 2020 SGLT2 Inhibitors in HFrEF: Putting EMPEROR-Reduced in Context Dr Ileana Piña asks the lead investigator how his trial on empagliflozin in HFrEF compares with DAPA-HF. They speculate on the likely mechanism of action of these relatively new drugs.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 31, 2020
Cookbook Medicine Won't Cut It With New Drugs for HFrEF The plethora of new drugs means one size will not fit all patients with HFrEF. Clinicians will have to tailor their strategies, says Ileana Pina, MD.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 20, 2020
Clinical Trials and the COVID-19 Conundrum The pandemic has critically altered current clinical research. Dr Ileana Pina implores researchers to work together and 'not stop all the good work that is being done.'
Experts And Viewpoints, June 01, 2020
VICTORIA PIs See Vericiguat as 'A Win' for High-Risk HFrEF Ileana Piña gets the details on vericiguat, an investigational guanylate cyclase stimulator that may open up a new treatment pathway for high-risk heart failure.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 13, 2020
Is Hyperkalemia Always Bad in Patients With HF? Dr Ileana Piña discusses facilitating RAAS inhibitors with potassium binders for patients with renal dysfunction.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 12, 2020
Do More HF Drugs Make It the Best or the Worst of Times? New HF treatment regimens keep piling new drugs onto the old ones, making it less likely that patients will be able to adhere to the regimen, says Dr Ileana Piña.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 03, 2020

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