From: John Reilly, MD	Category: Heart Disease
City: Jefferson	Language: English

64 slice CT scan to help diagnose coronary artery disease. The 64 Slice CT scan is essentially an angiogram of the heart arteries using cat scan. It is sometimes seen as the Heart Scan or Heart CT. It can be a helpful tool for cardiologists to diagnose coronary artery disease. This procedure can find blockages in the heart arteries, similar to a heart catheterization, but noninvasively.

From: Stephen Kopecky, MD	Category: Heart Disease
City: Rochester	Language: English

Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in America. There are risk factors for heart disease that everyone can modify. Dr Stephen Kopecky, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, discusses 4 ways to prevent a heart attack. You must 1-avoid smoking, 2-lower your BMI to <25, 3-eat 5 fruits and vegetables a day, 4-exercise. Taking Omega 3 fatty acids can also help.

From: Paul Massimiano, MD	Category: Heart Disease
City: Alexandria	Language: English

Dr. Paul Massimiano discusses valve repair, mitral valve ring, and mitral valve replacement using a porcine (pig) and mechanical valve. In patients with mitral valve prolapse-MVP, the valve can usually be repaired. Mitral stenosis is usually due to rheumatic heart disease. A mechanic valve replacement requires lifelong blood thinning with coumadin. With a porcine or pig valve, this anticoagulation is not necessary.

From: Yvonne Johnson, MD	Category: Heart Disease
City: Miami	Language: English

Dr. Yvonne Johnson, the director of the Heart Attack Unit at South Miami Heart Center. Heart disease begins in women about 10 years later than men. Women who smoke, those with diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity and a family history are all at risk. Womens symptoms can be atypical, they can have chest pain, but some have abdominal pain, indigestion, back pain, neck pain, shortness of breath or nausea.

From: Mark Grise, MD	Category: Heart Disease
City: Jefferson	Language: English

Dr. Mark Grise, and interventional cardiologist at the Ochsner Clinic, discusses medicated intra coronary stents. These newer stents have a special drug coating which lowers the chance of a re-narrowing (called restenosis). He also discusses the downside of these stents, which is clotting if patients are unable to take the medications necessary to prevent it.

From: Paul Mcmullan, MD	Category: Heart Disease
City: Jefferson	Language: English

Dr Paul McMullan, of the Ochsner Clinic, discusses the use of hypothermia, or cooling patients that have cardiac arrest and some that have heart attacks.

From: Dean Heller, MD	Category: Heart Disease
City: Miami	Language: English

This video gives you an overview of how a cardiac catheterization is performed. Cardiac cath. evaluates the coronary arteries to look for plaque or blockages in these arteries. Patients commonly need this procedure after a heart attack, or if you have angina- chest pain from the heat that is refractory to medical therapy. THe heart muscle and heart valves are also evaluated during this procedure.

From: Elie Haddad, MD	Category: Heart Disease
City: Miami	Language: English

Pacemakers are commonly used in patients that have bradycardia, or a slow heart rythmn. Symptoms of bradycardia include fatigue, shortness of breath, dizziness, lightheadedness, or loss of consciousness. Pacemakers are usually placed in a vein under the collar bone, and the wire is threaded into the heart. Pacemakers help people maintain an adequate heart rate. Complications include bleeding, infection, perforation, or collapse of the lung.

From: Neal Skop, MD	Category: Heart Disease
City: Philadelphia	Language: English

Heart murmurs are heard by doctors when they listen to your heart. Murmurs can be innocent and functional, which are benign murmurs during pregnancy and in some athletes are examples. Other murmurs can be from valve problems, such as a scarred or leaky valve. The test that confirms a valve problem is an echocardiogram.