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Dr. Ileana Piņa discusses the design and outcomes of the MADIT-CRT trial with Drs. Moss and Estes, and how these new data may benefit patients with heart failure.
An older patient appearing obviously fatigued and "worn out" presents in the office complaining of heaviness in the chest, and shortness of breath especially with any type of exercise. Not your typical angina patient, or is it? How do you go about working up this patient to make the right diagnosis? Drs. Pepine and Wenger discuss the approach to patients with ischemia and treatment considerations.
Despite improvements in the treatment of HF, morbidity and mortality remain a pressing public health issue. Disappointing and controversial results with positive inotropic agents have driven the search for new mechanisms and approaches to improve cardiac performance. Drs. Greenberg, Felker, McMurray, and Pfeffer explore these new possibilities.
Does early intervention with CRT-D slow the progression of heart failure? Watch as Dr. David Cannom interviews Drs. Camm, Hlatky, Klein, Moss and Page, and gets their expert opinions on late-breaking clinical trial data released at ESC 09 and how it will affect patient care.
Dr. Jeroen Bax, on the cusp of publishing a landmark paper to validate the role of MIBG imaging in risk stratifying patients with heart failure, provides a snapshot of his study in this interview from Europace 2009.
After examining the challenging clinical characteristics in ADHF, leading experts walk through prototypic patient cases, highlighting the efficacy and safety issues presented by current approaches to therapy and the promise of emerging treatments.
In our first program Drs Gibbons, Holmes, and Simari discuss cell therapy and the latest trials in intervention. Our second program features Drs Gibbons, Ackerman, and Redfield discuss personalized genomics and heart failure.
Heart racing, laboring to get a deep breath, the anxious patient enters the emergency room. Will this heart failure patient get a timely workup in the ER followed by the right management plan to relieve his congestion, save his life, and prevent future episodes? Drs Greenberg, Pina, Collins, and Lindenfeld discuss the steps needed.
Heart failure is one of the most important cardiovascular public health burdens in contemporary medicine. Join Ileana L Piņa, MD in a discussion of the National Heart Failure Training Program?s (N-HeFT) strategies for the identification of treatment gaps and improving care in heart failure.
