Patient Pulse
At Patient Pulse, we aim to improve understanding of difficult topics in cardiology and medicine. Easy enough for the layman, but detailed enough for someone who wants to know more about their condition or that of a loved one. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and most other services. Subscribe to have new podcasts sent directly to your player and please email us with any comments. We would love to hear from you.
Episodes
21 episodes
Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease with Dr Nehal Mehta
In this conversation, Dr. Nehal Mehta and Dr. Thomas Nero discuss the critical relationship between systemic inflammation and cardiovascular health, particularly in patients with psoriasis. He emphasizes the importance of understanding how an o...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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7:52
Coronary Inflammation, Heart Attack Risk and use of CT angiography With Dr Stefan Neubauer
Prof. Stefan Neubauer and Dr. Thomas Nero discuss two recent papers on the utility of coronary inflammation imaging on CT coronary angiography and how that translates to increased heart events. Beyond cholesterol, coronary inflammation is...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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9:27
How to Read and Understand Clinical Trials with Dr C. Michael Gibson
Dr Nero and Dr Gibson discuss how to understand the information when looking at clinical trial data. Is it meaningful for a patient? Did the trail population match the patient's risks and medical problems? The also discu...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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10:33
Improving Cardiac Health, A Fireside Chat with Jeff Scott and Dr Thomas Nero
Jeff Scott, CEO of Section 810 communication, interviews Dr. Nero on ways to improve cardiac health. The cover a wide range of topics, from diet and exercise to medical therapy and advanced testing. Some future research topics are a...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:01:10
Lipoprotein a with Dr. Steven Nissen
Dr Steven Nissen and Dr Thomas Nero discuss the importance of Lipoprotein a -aka Lp(a)- and its clinical importance as a special type of LDL cholesterol which dramatically increases your cardiovascular risk. They also covers why it import...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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11:08
Exercise and Coronary Artery Disease With Dr Aaron Baggish
Dr Nero discusses coronary artery disease and exercise with Dr. Aaron Baggish. Dr Baggish was the founder of the Cardiovascular Performance Program at the Mass General Hospital and is one of the best known sports cardiologists in the worl...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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14:16
Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation with Dr John Mandrola
Dr. Thomas Nero interviews Dr. John Mandrola on his approach to treating atrial fibrillation. In addition to a nuts and bolts approach they discuss how to assess risk and shared decision making.
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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12:28
Coronary Calcium Scores and CT Angiograms with Dr. Mathew Budoff
Dr Mathew Budoff discusses the importance of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring and CT Coronary Angiography to prevent and treat heart disease with Dr. Thomas Nero. In addition they discuss new goals for treating cholesterol based on the CAC...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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8:36
African American Heart Study with Dr Elizabeth Ofili and Iyana Liburd
Dr. Ofili and Iyana discuss their experience with the African American Heart Study and why it is so important to be involved.
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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17:38
Blood Thinners in Atrial Fibrillaiton and Coronary Atery Disease with Dr.Michael Gibson
Dr Gibson from Harvard's Baim Institue discusses anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation and coronary artery disease with Dr. Thomas Nero. The also discuss the concern about bleeding with current medical therapy and future options for pati...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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14:14
Weight Loss and CV Outcomes with Ozempic, Munjaro and Similar Drugs with Dr. Peter Toth
Dr Peter Toth discusses with Dr. Thomas Nero the new classes of diabetes medications, SGLT2 inhibitors (eg Jardiance) and GLP1 receptor agonists (eg Ozempic and Munjaro.) These drugs have been in the news due to an impressive effect on we...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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7:22
Reducing Heart Attack Risk with Dr. Peter Toth
In this brief discussion, Dr. Toth discusses the current recommendations on decreasing cardiovascular risk and where we are headed to decrease your risk of a heart attack.
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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7:47
Inflammation, Coronary Artery Disease and hs-CRP with Dr Paul Ridker
Coronary inflammation is the final pathway for the development of coronary artery disease. Dr. Paul Ridker discusses the role of inflammation, hs-CRP and therapies with Dr. Thomas Nero.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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12:19
Evolve MI and Pragmatic Clinical Trials with Dr. Christopher Cannon
Dr Christopher Cannon discusses the EVOLVE-MI trial to decrease cholesterol with Evolocumab early after Myocardial Infarction as well as the rational for a less intensive way to study patients with open label, pragmatic clinical trials.&n...
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Episode 7
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9:30
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection and Heart Disease in Women
Dr Kebrina Bartley discuses Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) and Heart Disease in Women with Dr Sharonne Hayes, Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Their wide ranging conversation discuses SCAD, the difference between S...
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Episode 6
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16:24
How To Be A Better Patient
Dr. Kabrina Bartley interviews Dr. Thomas Nero on ways patients can improve their outcomes by understanding their medical issues and becoming more involved with their care. These a a few very simple steps anyone can do
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Episode 5
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7:36
Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease and Inflammation
Dr. Nero discusses with ways to evaluate coronary artery disease with Dr. Cheerag Shirodaria from Oxford. Dr. Shirodaria and his team at Caristo Diagnostics have developed a ground breaking technology that allows us to evaluate not just t...
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Episode 4
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8:15
Cholesterol Management and Statin Associated Muscle Symptoms
Dr. Kebrina Bartley discusses cholesterol management with Dr. Thomas Nero. They go over the important roll that statins play in coronary artery disease prevention especially in association with diet and exercise. The also discuss ot...
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Episode 3
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16:56
Medical Statistics
If you REALLY want to understand what your doctor is telling you and how she came to the decisions that she did, then you have to know a little bit about medical statistics. In this episode, we will go over how we make a diagnosis with te...
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Episode 2
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7:41
