Love Your Heart: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast
Episodes
360 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...
Smoking and Vascular Disease
Lee Kirksey, MD, and J. Eduardo Corso, MD, explain how smoking and nicotine damage blood vessels and drive conditions like peripheral artery disease, aneurysms, heart attack and stroke. They discuss why quitting smoking can slow disease progres...
Encore: Managing Aortic Aneurysms
This episode is an encore presentation of "Managing Aortic Aneurysms," which originally premiered in March 2025.Francis (Frank) Caputo, MD, and Marijan Koprivanac, MD, explain what aortic aneurysms are, why they develop and how doctors deci...
Encore: Living Well with LVAD
This episode is an encore presentation of "Living Well with Heart Failure: All About LVAD," which originally premiered in February 2025.A left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a mechanical pump that is placed at the bottom of your he...
Ask the Heart Doctor: Mitral Valve
Cleveland Clinic heart experts explain mitral valve disease: what regurgitation (leakage) and stenosis (narrowing) are, how they’re found with an ultrasound of the heart and when treatment may be needed. Learn why regular follow-up matters, eve...
Pericarditis: Symptoms and Screening
Cardiologists Allan Klein, MD, and Deborah Kwon, MD, explain what pericarditis is and the key symptoms that come with it. They discuss the how the condition is diagnoses and the range of treatments that can help people recover and reduce the ri...
Updates in Vascular Surgery Clinical Trials
Vascular surgeons Sean Lyden, MD, and Jon Quatromoni, MD, discuss the clinical trials that are leading to less invasive, more effective treatments for aortic aneurysms, carotid artery disease and peripheral artery disease. They explain how thes...
A Leaky Aortic Valve Explained: Symptoms, Testing and When Surgery May Help
Lars Svensson, MD, PhD and Milind Desai, MD, MBA explain what aortic valve regurgitation is, why it matters and how it’s diagnosed, even when symptoms are easy to miss. Learn about treatment options, including when valve repair may be possible ...
Aortic Coarctation: From Childhood Repair to Adult Care
Eric Roselli, MD, and Patrick Vargo, MD, explain aortic coarctation, a congenital narrowing of the aorta. Coarctation often requires lifelong monitoring, even after childhood repair. The physicians discuss modern treatment options, warning sign...
Ask the Experts: Everyday Heart Health Part 2
In part two of this two part series, Cleveland Clinic heart specialists continue their heart health conversation with tips on exercise and managing conditions chronic conditions. They also discuss supplements, medications and seeking a second o...
Ask the Experts: Everyday Heart Health Part 1
In part one of this two part series, Cleveland Clinic heart specialists answer your most common questions about staying heart‑healthy at any age. They discuss simple daily habits, ways to lower your risk of heart disease and what steps to...
Women's Integrated Sports, Exercise and Research
Learn how Cleveland Clinic’s new WISER (Women's Integrated Sports, Exercise and Research) program supports women at every stage of their athletic journey. Tamanna Singh, MD, and Marie Schaefer, MD, share how this comprehensive center helps athl...
How DNA Affects Heart Health
Discover how cardiovascular genomics is transforming heart care as Samir Kapadia, MD, and Krishna Aragam, MD, discuss what genetic testing can reveal about risk factors and future health. They explore how early insights, family patterns, and pr...
Pregnancy After Heart Transplant
Discover what it takes to navigate pregnancy and parenthood after a heart transplant as Cleveland Clinic cardiologists Maria Mountis, DO, and Karlee Hoffman, DO, share real‑world insight and compassionate guidance. They break down the unique ri...
Heart Health Habits to Help You Age Well
How can you live longer and feel better as you age? Leslie Cho, MD, and Luke Laffin, MD, break down what really matters for heart-healthy aging: movement, food, sleep and knowing your numbers. They provide insights informed by a recent Clevelan...
Quick Questions: Heart Failure
Heart failure cardiologist Amanda Vest, MBBS, answers real questions submitted by real people, tackling common concerns about diagnosing and managing heart failure. Dr. Vest discusses heart failure symptoms, testing, treatment options and...
Inherited Arrhythmias
Oussama Wazni, MD, MBA, and Jeffery Courson, DO, break down what inherited arrhythmias are, how they’re detected and why early evaluation matters for patients and their families. You'll learn about the comprehensive, team‑based approach Clevela...
What Research Reveals About Women and Heart Failure
Discover how heart failure impacts women differently and why it matters. Amanda Vest, MBBS, explores sex-based differences in risk factors, symptoms and treatment outcomes. Learn what the research reveals about optimizing care for women w...
AFib in Women: Risks, Symptoms and Treatments
Discover how atrial fibrillation affects women differently and why early intervention matters. Mohamed Kanj, MD, explains gender-based differences in risk factors, symptoms and treatment strategies. Learn the latest clinic insights on therapies...
Why Appropriate Follow-Up Is Key to Successful Aortic Valve Replacement
Join Amar Krishnaswamy, MD, Head of Interventional Cardiology, and Marijan Koprivanac, MD, Cardiac Surgeon at Cleveland Clinic, as they discuss what patients can expect after aortic valve replacement, whether surgical or transcatheter. Learn ab...
Ask the Heart Doctor - Abdominal Aorta Disease Part 2
Have you or a loved one been diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)? You're not alone, and you're in the right place. In part two of this two part series, Cleveland Clinic’s vascular experts discuss surgery and less-invasive repa...
