
ESC Cardio Talk
The ESC podcasts - regular recordings from the European Society of Cardiology.
Hear renowned experts discuss cardiovascular advances relevant to daily practice.
Check here regularly to stay up to date.
You can also be interested in other ESC podcasts: EHRA Cardio Talk, HFA Cardio Talk and ESC TV Today. Check them out!
Latest episodes

Oct 11, 2021 • 11min
Journal Editorial - Key roles of five lifestyle risk factors in the harmful transition from a healthy condition to multimorbidity in the Chinese population
With Dong Zhao & Jing Liu, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing - China Link to EHJ paper Link to EHJ editorial

Oct 6, 2021 • 10min
ESC Guidelines 2021 on valvular heart disease
With Friedhelm Beyersdorf, University Heart Center Freiburg, Bad Krozingen - Germany & Alec Vahanian, University Paris-Descartes, Paris - France Link to paper

Oct 4, 2021 • 10min
Journal Editorial - First, do no harm
With Sharonne Hayes & Rajiv Gulati, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota - USA Link to EHJ paper Link to EHJ editorial

Sep 29, 2021 • 10min
ESC Guidelines 2021 on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy
With Michael Glikson, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem & Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Aarhus University Hospital – Denmark. Link to paper

Sep 27, 2021 • 9min
Journal Editorial - Decoding the link between heart failure and incident cancer
With Anju Nohria & Sanjay Divakaran, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston - USA. Link to paper Link to editorial

Sep 20, 2021 • 7min
Journal Editorial - The endothelial niche in heart failure: from development to regeneration
With Stefanie Dimmeler & Julian Wagner, University of Frankfurt - Germany. Link to paper Link to editorial

Sep 13, 2021 • 13min
Journal Editorial - Initiation and management of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: history gone full circle
With Christian van der Werf, Amsterdam University Medical Center - Netherlands & Pier Lambiase, University College London, London - United Kingdom. Link to paper Link to editorial

Sep 6, 2021 • 12min
Journal Editorial - Genome-wide association analysis in dilated cardiomyopathy reveals two new players in systolic heart failure on chromosomes 3p25.1 and 22q11.23
With Perry Elliott & Douglas Cannie, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science - London Link to paper

Jul 19, 2021 • 10min
Journal Editorial - Beat-to-beat variability occurs not only in atrial fibrillation: clinical value of dynamic assessment of the mitral and tricuspid annulus
With Roberto Lang & Karima Addetia, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago - USA Link to European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging paper Link to European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging editorial

Jul 12, 2021 • 11min
Journal Editorial - Optical coherence tomography and vulnerable plaque detection: how far are we willing to stray from true histology?
With Hector Garcia-Garcia, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington - USA & Ronald Bass, Georgetown University, School of Medicine, Washington - USA Link to paper Link to editorial