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Puja K Mehta
Job title: Associate Professor
Dr Puja K Mehta is an Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr Mehta attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, and then went on to complete her medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia. She then completed an internal medicine residency and cardiovascular fellowship at Emory. She then completed an additional year of training at theBarbra Streisand Women’s Heart… View more
‘Primary’ Microvascular Angina
Author(s): Gaetano Antonio Lanza , Juan Carlos Kaski Added: 3 years ago
Obstructive coronary atherosclerosis and its complications (e.g. coronary thrombosis) are considered to be the most common causes of myocardial ischaemia. However, up to 50% of stable angina patients undergoing diagnostic coronary angiography and 10–15% of those presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are found to have normal or ‘near-normal’ coronary arteries.1,2 A large body of data… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Ileana L Piña
Dr Ileana L Pina is Professor at the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, US. Dr Piña has a particular research and clinical interest in rehabilitation of heart disease in patients with heart failure. She completed a NHLBI HF ACTION trial and is in the process of… View more
Dr Purvi Parwani
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Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions

 Job title: Cardiologist & Advanced Cardiovascular Imager
Dr Purvi Parwani is a cardiologist, multimodality imager and Associate Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University in California. With board certification in Internal Medicine (2012), Nuclear Cardiology (2015), Echocardiography (2017) and Cardiovascular disease (2017), Dr. Parwani is a recognised expert in her field. Her research interests include cardiovascular imaging, structural… View more
UZ Clear Finds 50% Patients with Angina Have Evidence of CAD
Author(s): Carlos Collet Added: 2 years ago
In this video, Dr Carlos Collet (Cardiovascular Center OLV-Aalst, Aalst, BE) outlines the findings of the UZ Clear study, originally presented at CRT 2022. The UZ Clear study was designed to analyse the diagnostic performance of non-invasive cardiac stress tests to detect coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients. Dr Collet reveals that around half the patients presenting with chest pain had… View more

Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Bernard Kwok
Dr Bernard Kwok is a Cardiologist at Farrer Park Medical Centre, and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in Singapore. Dr Kwok was formerly governer of the Singapore Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, and President of the Singapore Cardiac Society. He also founded the Heart Failure Society in Singapore. His research… View more
CardioNerds @AHA23: ORBITA-2: PCI for Stable Angina
Author(s): Rasha Al-Lamee , Christopher Rajkumar , Nazli Okumus Added: 5 months ago
AHA 2023 — Investigators of ORBITA-2 trial, Dr Rasha Al-Lamee and Dr Christopher Rajkumar (Imperial College London, UK) talked with CardioNerds Ambassador, Dr Nazli Okumus about the randomised, placebo-controlled trial (NCT03742050) that compared the effects of coronary angioplasty versus placebo procedure on symptoms of stable angina without background anti-anginal therapy at 12 weeks.The ORBITA… View more

Intervention
Author(s): Gérard Finet , Gilles Rioufol Added: 3 years ago
“Nothing comes to us except falsified and altered by our senses.” Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) Coronary angiography (CA) has been performed in cardiology centres for more than 50 years. The diagnosis it provides soon became the gold standard in coronaropathy. It is a purely anatomic diagnosis, and this approach has made a deep mark on cardiology, although the need for a prior non-invasive… View more

Standards & Guidelines

Imaging & Diagnostics
Anomalous Coronary Arteries with a Malignant Course
Author(s): Christoph Gräni , Philipp A Kaufmann , Stephan Windecker , et al Added: 3 years ago
Anomalous origin of the coronary artery from the opposite sinus of Valsalva (ACAOS) is a rare inborn disease that is characterised by an anomalous course and/or termination of a native coronary vessel.1,2 The traditional definition of ACAOS differentiates between benign and malignant variants. Malignant ACAOS has an interarterial course (IAC) of the anomalous vessel between the pulmonary artery… View more

Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia

Intervention
ACC.24: The SMART Trial
Author(s): Howard C Herrmann Added: 1 week ago
ACC.24 — Investigator, Dr Howard C Hermann (Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, US) joins us to discuss the findings from the SMART Trial (NCT04722250).This prospective, multi-center, randomized controlled study aims to investigate the valve safety and performance of self expanding as compared to balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with small aortic annuli… View more

Intervention