Love Your Heart: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast
Episodes
370 episodes
Aspirin for Prevention: Latest Recommendations
Luke Laffin, MD, and Vikas Sunder, MD, discuss the latest recommendations for usi...
Choosing the Right Treatment for Blocked Coronary Arteries
Faisal Bakaeen, MD, and Grant Reed, MD, explain what blocked coronary arteries mean and the risk factors that can lead to coronary artery disease. They discuss how treatment decisions are made, escpecially when stents or bypass surgery may be r...
Robotic Lung Transplantation Explained
Kenneth McCurry, MD, and Gregory Jones, MD, discuss who may need a lung transplant, how patients are evaluated and how transplantation can improve quality of life for people with advanced lung disease. They also explain the emerging role of rob...
Recognizing the Warning Signs of Limb Loss
Courtney Hanak, MD, and Ravi Ambani, MD, discuss the most common causes of amputation, including diabetes, poor circulation and severe infection, along with the warning signs that should prompt medical attention. They explain how care teams wor...
Quick Questions: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Gianluca Torregrossa, MD, explains coronary artery bypass grafting, how it compares with stenting and the questions patients should ask when considering treatment for blocked heart arteries. He discusses advances in surgical techniques and what...
Understanding New Cholesterol Guidelines for Better Heart Health
Ashish Sarraju, MD, and Leslie Cho, MD, discuss the latest cholesterol guidelines and why understanding lifetime risk is key to preventing heart disease and stroke. They explain early testing, lifestyle changes and personalized care to help peo...
Quick Questions: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Francis Caputo, MD, explains how abdominal aortic aneurysms are monitored and when treatment is recommended based on size, risk and overall health. He also discusses symptoms, screening, lifestyle factors and the differences between surgical an...
Encore: Myths on Dieting and Heart Health
This episode is an encore presentation of "Myths on Dieting and Heart Health," which originally premiered on April 15, 2025. With so much diet and nutrition advice available, it's hard to know who to trust when it comes to heart-he...
The First Year After Heart Transplant
Michael Zhen-Yu Tong, MD, and Sanjeeb Bhattacharya, MD, discuss what patients can expect during the first year after a heart transplant, including recovery, medications and monitoring for rejection. They explain how lifestyle changes, support s...
Quick Questions: Athletes and Heart Health
Tamanna Singh, MD, answers the most common heart health questions from athletes and highly active individuals. She breaks down common risk factors, symptoms to watch for, screening tests and how lifestyle, family history and wearable data can h...
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 diagnosed 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...
