CardioPractice Cardio Talk

With Riccardo Asteggiano, Faculty of Medicine, Insubria University, Varese, and LARC (Laboratorio Analisi Ricerca Clinica), Turin - Italy, and José Fernando Rodriguez Palomares, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona - Spain.   In this podcast, José Fernando Rodriguez Palomores joins Riccardo Asteggiano to discuss the new 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of peripheral arterial and aortic diseases, focusing on aortic aneurysms.

With Thomas F. Luscher, ESC President, Royal Brompton Hospital Imperial College London - UK and Center for Moelcular Cardiology, University of Zurich - Switzerland, and Marc Ferrini,  Editor-in-Chief Cardio Practice, CH Saint Joseph and Saint Luc, Lyon - France.   In this podcast, Thomas F. Luscher joins Marc Ferrini to discuss his plans and vision for the future in his new role as President of the ESC.

With Ruxandra Maria Christodorescu, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes, Timisoara - Romania and Eva Gerdts, University of Bergen - Norway.   In this podcast, Eva Gerdts joins Dr Ruxandra Christodorescu to discuss essential hypertension from the 2024 Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension (https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae178/7741010).

With Tiziana Claudia Aranzulla, MD, MSC, Mauriziano Umberto Hospital, Turin - Italy, and Ruxandra Maria Christodorescu, MD, PhD, FESC, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes, Timisoara - Romania.     In this podcast, Tizania Claudia Aranzulla joins Ruxandra Christodorescu to discuss acute coronary syndrome in women.

With Tiziana Claudia Aranzulla, MD, MSC, Mauriziano Umberto Hospital, Turin - Italy, and Riccardo Asteggiano, MD, FESC, Laboratorio Analisi Ricerca Clinica, Turin - Italy.   In this podcast, Tizania Claudia Aranzulla joins Riccardo Asteggiano to discuss acute coronary syndrome in elderly and frail patients.

With Martine Gilard, MD, PhD, FESC, ex-President of French Society of Cardiology and President-elect EAPCI, Hospital Cavale Blanche, Brest - France, and Riccardo Asteggiano, MD, FESC, LARC (Laboratorio Analisi Ricerca Clinica), Turin - Italy   In this interview, Martine Gilard joins Riccardo Asteggiano to discuss the long-term follow-up of patients with acute coronary syndrome. The main aspects of secondary prevention and of clinical control are debated and a clear indication of the follow-up of these complex patients in General Cardiology are given.

In this interview with Borja Ibáñez, National Centre for Cardiovascular Research CNIC and Fundacion Jimenez Diaz Hospital, Madrid - Spain, one of the Task Force co-ordinators of the ESC 2023 Guidelines for the management of acute coronary sydromes, and Riccardo Asteggiano, Laboratorio Analisi Ricerca Clinica, Turin - Italy, underline the complex aspects of long-term therapy after ACS, mainly concerning antithrombotic management and secondary prevention management.

With Bernard Iung, Hospital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris - France & Konstatinos Toutouzas, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens - Greece. In this podcast, they discuss primary mitral regurgitation.

With Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, The Allina Heart Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN & Marc Ferrini2, CH Saint Joseph and Saint Luc, Lyon, France. In this podcast, Dr Maurice Enriquez-Sarano (The Allina Heart Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, USA) joins Dr Marc Ferrini (Editor-in-Chief CardioPractice; CH Saint Joseph and Saint Luc, Lyon, France) to discuss our current understanding of mitral valve prolapse (MVP). The treatment of MVP has evolved in recent years, and we now know that a small fraction of myxomatous mitral valve prolapse patients may, over time, experience severe arrhythmia, irrespective of mitral regurgitation severity. Dr Sarano presents the current thinking on the diagnosis and the tools available for arrhythmic risk stratification.

Professor Panos E. Vardas and Dr. Marc Ferrini discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on cardiology. They explore AI tools in cardiac imaging, its role in interpreting dynamic images and enhancing measurement precision. The future role of algorithms in cardiology diagnoses, focusing on conditions like HCM and the collaboration between AI accuracy and clinical judgment.