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AP Cardiology
Cardiology podcast for internists, residents and medical students. We review common questions for cardiologists and recent research.
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Aortic Valve Repair – Dr. Chris Burke
In this episode I visit with Dr. Chris Burke from the University of Washington to discuss aortic valve repair. Dr. Burke is a cardiac surgeon with an...

Physical Exam Series: Mitral Regurgitation
I am joined by Shreyas Venkataraman, MD, an internal medicine resident at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St Louis to continue our physical exam series. In...

Ventricular Tachycardia – Dr. Melissa Robinson
In this episode I visit with Dr. Melissa Robinson from the University of Washington to discuss the management of ventricular tachycardia. Our discussi...

Caring for patients with Fontan physiology – Eric Krieger
I met with Dr. Eric Krieger from the University of Washington Adult Congenital Heart Disease group to talk about patients with the Fontan palliative s...

Coronary Artery Disease and Chronic Kidney Disease – Dr. Alec Moorman
I am joined by co-fellow Alex Taylor, MD and we visit with Alec Moorman, MD to discuss coronary artery disease in patients with chronic kidney disease...

Bariatric Surgery in Heart Failure – Dr. Gopalan
I visit with Dr. Gopalan from Banner University in Phoenix, AZ to discuss his experience with morbidly obese patients with heart failure. We talk abou...

Physical Exam Series – Aortic Stenosis
I am joined by Shreyas Venkataraman to discuss the physical exam findings of aortic stenosis and how they can help us with the diagnosis and grading o...

Heart failure with recovered ejection fraction – Jane Wilcox
I visit with Dr. Jane Wilcox from Northwestern University to discuss patients with heart failure that later have normalization of their ejection fract...

Plant Based Diets with Kim Williams
I visited with Dr Kim Williams, former president of the ACC, to discuss the cardiovascular benefits of a plant based diet. Using stories of patient en...

False Positive Troponins
I visit with Robert Christenson PhD about the troponin assays and how they can be falsely positive from anti-body mediated interference. I present a c...

Pregnancy in ACHD – Dr Candice Silversides
UPDATED: I visited with Dr. Candice Silversides at the American Heart Association Meeting in November 2019. We talk about her area of expertise, pregn...

HFpEF and Amyloid – Frederick Ruberg
I met with Dr. Frederick Ruberg from Boston University to discuss his talk from AHA 2019 titled “HFpEF: It’s a Diagnosis of Exclusion, So Exclude Othe...

ACS Update – 2019 with James de Lemos
I caught up with Dr. James de Lemos from UT Southwestern at the 2019 American Heart Association meeting to discuss a number of updates in acute corona...

Decompensated heart failure with Dr. Kittleson
In this episode I visit with Dr. Michelle Kittleson (@MKIttlesonMD) of Cedars-Sinai to discuss evaluation and management of patients admitted with acu...

ASDs and VSDs with Amber Khanna
In this episode I visit with Dr. Amber Khanna of the University of Colorado about some of the “simple” congenital heart defects. We discuss atrial sep...

Hypertension with Eugene Yang
In this episode I visit with Dr. Eugene Yang to discuss the update to hypertension guidelines published in 2017 by the ACC/AHA. I asked him what were...

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Following up on our last discussion with Dr. Daniel Lenihan, we address the subject of immune checkpoint inhibitors and the associated cardio-toxiciti...

Cardio-Oncology
I visited with Dr. Daniel Lenihan and spoke with him about cardio-oncology and some of the common issues and concerns that arise. Cardio-oncology is a...

Ethics and Cardiac Arrest
Dr. Caroline Kahle discussed a few cases I’ve encountered during medical training. How do we perceive end of life care or code situations in complex s...

Remote Monitoring in Heart Failure
I met with Dr. Thomas Maddox, the director of the Health Systems Innovation Lab at BJC/WashU, to discuss an upcoming pilot program to remotely monitor...

Atrial Fibrillation
In 2002, NEJM published the AFFIRM trial, showing no difference in outcomes between patients with atrial fibrillation treated with rate or rhythm cont...

Aortopathies with Dr. Braverman
I met with Dr. Alan Braverman to talk about aortic diseases (aka aortopathies) such as Marfan’s disease, Ehlers-Danlos and Loeys-Dietz. We discuss eve...

CV Prevention with Dr Ballantyne
Dr Christie Ballantyne is the chief of cardiology and cardiovascular research at Baylor College of Medicine. He gave grand rounds on cardiovascular di...

Listener Survey
AP Cardiology is coming up on one year next month and with that milestone, I wanted to ask for your participation in a short survey. There are 5 quest...

Cardiac Amyloidosis – Dr Lenihan
What patients should you be testing for cardiac amyloidosis? In this episode, I talk with Dr. Daniel Lenihan, an expert in cardiac amyloidosis. We rev...

Beyond Ejection Fraction with Dr John Gorcsan
In this episode I visit with Dr. John Gorcsan, an expert in echocardiography and strain imaging, to discuss the utility of ejection fraction. We discu...

Pulmonary Hypertension with Dr Murali Chakinala
In this episode I meet with Dr Murali Chakinala, an expert in pulmonary hypertension at Washington University in St Louis. We review the groupings of...

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with Dr Richard Bach
In this episode I visit with Dr Richard Bach, the director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Washington University. We talk about everythin...

History of tPA in acute MI with Dr Phil Ludbrook
The first patient treated with tPA in an acute myocardial infarction was at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. In this episode, I talked with one of the key play...

Alternative Payment Models Part 2 with Dr Karen Joynt Maddox
Second part with Dr Karen Joynt Maddox discussing alternative payment models. In part one, we discussed the history of how quality measures began to b...

Alternative Payment Models Part 1 with Dr Karen Joynt Maddox
The way we pay for medical care is changing. In this first episode of a two-part series, Dr Karen Joynt Maddox explains the history of the transition...

Cardiac Rehab
I visited with Dr Linda Peterson about cardiac rehab. We review who qualifies for referral, what cardiac rehab is, the benefits and the challenges for...

Noninvasive radiation for VT
In collaboration with Dr Clifford Robinson (RadOnc), Dr Phillip Cuculich helped pioneer a completely noninvasive method to identify the origin of vent...

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
I met with Dr Kathryn Lindley to talk about peripartum cardiomyopathy. Dr Lindley’s research and clinical focus is in this area, and really helped me...

Case Report: Primary Cardiac Lymphoma
I discuss an interesting case I recently encountered on the wards with a brief review of the general principles of presentation and treatment.

TAVR
In this episode I talk with Dr Alan Zajarias about TAVR (transcatheter aortic valve replacement). We talk about how candidates are evaluated and curre...

ORBITA Debate
Dr David L Brown and Dr Richard Bach discuss the recent ORBITA trial. Dr Brown co-authored the accompanying editorial in the Lancet and Dr Bach is an...

PCSK9 Inhibitors
I met with the director of the Health Systems Innovation Laboratory at Washington University School of Medicine, Dr Thomas Maddox, MD, and we talked a...

Stress Testing
In this episode I visit with Dr Mike Rich and discuss stress testing. We review the various modalities, whom to send for stress testing and the progno...