ESC Cardio Talk

The podcast series featuring key opinion leaders in cardiovascular medicine

Hear Peter Libby, Deepak Bhatt, Franz Messerli, Roxana Mehran, Tom Guzik, and many more discussing the latest science that can impact your practice.

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Journal Editorials

Secondary prevention medications after coronary artery bypass grafting and long-term survival: A population-based longitudinal study from the SWEDEHEART registry

With Bernard Gersh and Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Mayo Clinic - US

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Published on 17 February 2020

Does type 2 diabetes confer higher relative rates of cardiovascular events in women compared with men?

With Naveed Sattar and Lyn Ferguson, University of Glasgow - Scotland

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Published on 3 February 2020

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in previously undiagnosed patients with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia resuscitated from sudden cardiac arrest

With Pier Lambiase and Sherry Honarbakhsh, Barts Health NHS Trust, London - UK

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Published on 20 January 2020

A population-based study of cardiovascular disease mortality risk in US cancer patients

With Joerg Herrmann and Kathryn Ruddy, Mayo Clinic, Rochester - USA

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Published on 6 January 2020

Short-term e-cigarette vapour exposure causes vascular oxidative stress and dysfunction

With Tomasz Guzik, Univ. of Glasgow - UK and David Harrison, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, USA

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Published on 16 December 2019

Cardiovascular effect of discontinuing statins for primary prevention at the age of 75 years: a nationwide population-based cohort study in France

With Chris Cannon, Brigham and Women's Hospital - Boston and Ulrich Laufs, Leipzig Univ.

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Published on 2 December 2019

The association between the public reporting of individual operator outcomes with patient profiles, procedural management, and mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention: an observational study from the Pan-London PCI (BCIS) Registry using an interrupted time series analysis

With Morton Kern and Arnold Seto, Univ. of California - Irvine

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Published on 18 November 2019

Sudden death in cardiac sarcoidosis: an analysis of nationwide clinical and cause-of-death registries

With Perry Elliott & Douglas Cannie, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science - London

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Published on 4 November

A new opening on aortic stenosis: predicting prognosis with clonal hematopoiesis

With Peter Libby, Amy Lin, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School - US & Benjamin Levine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - US.

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Published on 22 October 2019

Periodontitis and hypertension: causally linked by immune mechanisms

With Ernesto Schiffrin McGill, University of Montreal - Canada & Stefano Taddei, University of Pisa - Italy

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Published on 14 October 2019

Promoting physical activity in primary and secondary prevention

With Carl Chip Lavie, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana & Sergey Kachur, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Published on 30 September 2019

Development and validation of a multivariable prediction model for major adverse cardiovascular events after early stage breast cancer

With Thomas Lüscher, University Zurich – Switzerland & Alexander Lyon, Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital - England

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Published on 16 September 2019

Thromboembolic events around the time of cardioversion for atrial fibrillation

With Freek Verheugt, Heartcenter, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG) - Netherlands

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Published on 9 September 2019

Defining high bleeding risk in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

With Morton Kern &Arnold Seto, Univ. of California - Irvine

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Published on 26 August 2019

Transcatheter heart valve migration and embolization: rare and preventable?

Wtih Ronald Binder & Michael Porodko, Univ. Teaching Hospital Klinikum Wels

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Published on 19 August 2019

Measuring coronary microvascular function: is it finally ready for prime time?

With Adrian Banning & Giovanni Luigi De Maria, Oxford University Hospitals

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Published on 12 August 2019

Longevity-associated variant BPIFB4 gene transfer to recapitulate healthy ageing in patients at risk: is the future around the corner?

With Giovanni Camici & Luca Liberale, Center for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zurich

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Published on 5 August 2019

PCSK9 inhibitors: what we know, what we should have understood, and what is to come

With Marc Sabatine & Robert Giugliano, Brigham and Women’s Hospital - Boston

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Published on 31 July 2019

Continuous anticoagulation with catheter ablation: answers and questions

With Christopher B. Granger & Sean D. Pokorney, Duke University Medical Center

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Published on 22 July 2019

Cardiac arrest in takotsubo syndrome: results from the InterTAK Registry

With Thomas Lüscher, Editor in Chief - European Heart Journal & Allan Davies, International Associate Editor - European Heart Journal

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Published on 16 July 2019

Transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation: a melody to follow

With Lars Søndergaard & Michael Rahbek Schmidt, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen

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Published on 8 July 2019

Frequency, predictors, and prognosis of ejection fraction improvement in heart failure: an echocardiogram-based registry study

With Sanjay Prasad & Daniel J. Hammersley, Royal Brompton Hospital

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Published on 1 July 2019

The future of functional mitral regurgitation treatment

With Patrick Myers & Piergiorgio Tozzi, Lausanne Univ. Hospital

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Published on 24 June 2019

Left ventricular non-compaction: have we reached the limits of conventional imaging?

With Perry Elliott & Alexandros Protonotarios, Univ. College London

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Published on 17 June 2019

Impact of Preoperative FFR on Arterial Bypass Graft Anastomotic Function: the IMPAG trial

With Morton Kern & Arnold Seto, Univ. of California - Irvine

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Published on 10 June 2019

Targeting RNA to lower triglycerides: long strides from short molecules

With Deepak Bhatt & Peter Libby, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

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Published on 3 June 2019

Blood pressure target in diabetics: how low is too low?

With Jay Mehta & Marwan Saad, Univ. Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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Published on 29 April 2019

Cardiovascular Disease and Uric Acid?

With Franz Messerli, Univ. of Bern & Michel Burnier, Univ. Hospital of Lausanne

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Published on 23 April 2019

How to target vascular inflammation in the post-CANTOS era?

With Tomasz Guzik, Univ. of Glasgow, Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Research & Pasquale Maffia, Univ. of Glasgow, Deputy Editor of Cardiovascular Research

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Published on 15 April 2019

Atrial fibrillation, with ACS and PCI: walking a tightrope

With Roxana Mehran, Icahn School of Medicine - Mount Sinai & Dominick Angiolillo, Univ. of Florida College of Medicine

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Published on 9 April 2019

Congress highlights

From ESC Congress

ESC Cardio Talk podcasts will be recorded from the ESC Professional Members' Lounge during the congress.

Results of the European Infective Endocarditis registry (ESC-EORP EURO-ENDO)

With Thomas Lüscher, University Zurich - Switzerland & Stephan Windecker, Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern – Switzerland

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Published on 4 September 2019

Is perivascular fat a new cardiovascular risk factor? Results of SCOT-HEART

With Stephan Achenbach, University of Erlangen - Germany & Victoria Delgado, Leiden University Medical Center - Netherlands

Published on 4 September 2019

DANAMI-2 - 16-year follow-up of the Danish Acute Myocardial Infarction 2 trial - Primary percutaneous coronary intervention versus fibrinolysis in ST-elevation myocardial infarction

With Borja Ibanez, Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research - Spain & Allan Davies, Hunter New England Health - Australia

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Published on 3 September 2019

Residual inflammatory risk associated with interleukin-18 and interleukin-6

With Thomas Lüscher, University Zurich - Switzerland, Filippo Crea & Luigi Biasucci, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Italy

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Published on 3 September 2019

The relation between systemic inflammation and incident cancer in patients with stable cardiovascular disease, a cohort study

With Peter Libby & Paul Ridker, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School - US

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Published on 2 September 2019

Estimating individual lifetime benefit and bleeding risk of adding rivaroxaban to aspirin for patients with stable cardiovascular disease: results from the COMPASS trial

With Roxana Mehran, The Mount Sinai Hospital - USA, Jan Steffel, University Hospital Zurich - Switzerland & Diana Gorog, University of Hertfordshire – UK

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Published on 1 September 2019