Love Your Heart: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast
Love Your Heart: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast
Latest Episodes
Combining Procedures to Reduce Stroke Risk in AFib
Oussama Wazni, MD, MBA, and Mohamed Kanj, MD, discuss how combining atrial fibrillation ablation with left atrial appendage closure can improve outcomes for patients with AFib. They explain how this approach may reduce stroke risk, limit long-t...
What to Know About Heart Stents and Coronary Artery Disease
Grant Reed, MD, and Laura Young, MD, explain how coronary artery disease develops, what symptoms to watch for and when stenting is recommended. They walk through what patients can expect before, during and after a minimally invasive stent proce...
Understanding Sclerotherapy for Spider Veins
Vascular surgeons Gayan De Silva, MD, and Kathleen Boyle, DO, explain how sclerotherapy is used to treat spider veins for both cosmetic and symptom relief. They discuss who may benefit from treatment, what the procedure is like, expected result...
Understanding CHIP and Heart Disease
In this episode, Samir Kapadia, MD, and Ohad Oren, MD, explain clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, or CHIP, and how age-related blood cell mutations can raise the risk of heart disease. They discuss what CHIP is, who it affects, ho...
Medications and Surgery for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Milind Desai, MD, and Nicholas Smedira, MD, explain how hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is diagnosed and how treatment decisions are made based on symptoms, heart structure and individual goals. They discuss medications, surgical myectomy and emerg...