Web Chats and Discussions Online

Cleveland Clinic Web Chats - Online Health Chats with our Heart and Vascular Institute experts: cardiologists, vascular medicine physicians, heart surgeons, vascular surgeons, and other health care professionals about heart and vascular topics.

Cleveland Clinic Web Chat Transcripts:

Adult Congenital

• Percutaneous Innovations for Treatment of Heart Disease (Dr. Tuzcu 12/6/2007)

Ask the Heart Doctor

• Ask the Heart Doctor (Dr. Kalahasti 2/20/2008)
• Ask the Heart Doctor (Dr. Grasso 10/31/2007)

Abnormal Heart Rhythms

• Devices - Pacemakers and Defibrillators (Dr. Wilkoff 4/10/08)
• Atrial Fibrillation (Dr. Cummings 01/15/08)
• Devices - Pacemakers and Defibrillators (Dr. Wilkoff 7/24/2007)
• Atrial Fibrillation (Dr. Gillinov and Dr. Cummings 6/27/07)

Cardiovascular Surgery

• Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery (Dr. Gillinov 1/22/2008)
• Adult Congenital Heart Disease Surgery (Dr. Pettersson 10/3/2007)
• Minimally Invasive and Robotic Assisted Heart Surgery Following Live Webcast of Robotically Assisted Mitral Valve Surgery(Dr. Mihaljevic 10/2/2007)
• Surgical Treatments for Heart Failure (Dr. Smedira 9/18/07)
• Aorta Surgery (Dr. Svensson 7/11/07)
• Minimally Invasive and Robotic Assisted Heart Surgery (Dr. Mihaljevic 6/20/2007)
• Latest Innovations in Mitral Valve Surgery (Dr. Gillinov, 4/25/07)

Carotid Artery Disease

• Carotid Artery Disease (Dr. Clair 9/12/07)

Coronary Artery Disease and Interventional Procedures

• Latest Treatments and Research - Report from American Heart Association Scientific Sessions (Dr. Lincoff 11/14/07)
• Interventional Procedures - Questions and Answers about Stents, Angioplasty and New Approaches to Treat Heart Disease (Dr. Ellis, 5/25/07)
• Regression of Atherosclerosis (Dr. Nissen, 5/14/07)

Heart Failure

• Medical Management of Heart Failure (Dr. Taylor 4/23/08)
• Heart Failure - Ask the Nurse (Linda Kelly 3/27/08)
• Surgical Treatments for Heart Failure (Dr. Smedira 9/18/07)
• Medical Treatment of Heart Failure (Dr. Hobbs 8/14/07)

Heart and Vascular Disease Prevention

• Healthy Diet (Melissa Ohlson, RD, 3/04/08)
• Exercise for Healthy Heart and Body (Dr. Blackburn, 12/12/07)
• Heart Healthy Eating (Julia Zumpano RD, 11/21/07)
• Heart Disease Prevention and Risk Reduction (Dr. Huang 9/25/07)
• Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and your Heart (Dr. Hoogwerf 8/7/07)
• Emerging Risk Factors and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine (Dr. Hazen, 5/30/07)

Research and Innovation

• Percutaneous Innovations for Treatment of Heart Disease (Dr. Tuzcu 12/6/2007)
• Participation in Research (Dr. Gornik & Susan Stein R.N. (10/10/07)

Valve Disease

• Heart Valve Disease (Dr. Stewart, 2/6/08)
• Minimally Invasive and Robotic Assisted Heart Surgery Following Live Webcast of Robotically Assisted Mitral Valve Surgery(Dr. Mihaljevic 10/2/2007)
• Latest Innovations in Mitral Valve Surgery (Dr. Gillinov, 4/25/07)

Vascular Disease, Peripheral Arterial Disease

• Diseases of the Blood Vessels (Dr. Gornik, 6/13/07)

Women and Cardiovascular Disease

• Women and Cardiovascular Disease (Dr. Cho 7/16/07)

General Cleveland Clinic Webchat transcripts - Other Cleveland Clinic physicians also participate in online health chats.

Heart and Vascular Institute Podcasts

Cleveland Clinic Health Information Center Archived webcasts:

• A Closer Look at Heart Treatments
• A Heart to Heart for Women

Cleveland Clinic Podcasts - general topics

Other websites, archives:

• Preventive Heart Disease Therapies for Diabetics (Podcast, ReachMD: Dr. Stanley Hazen, Hosted by:   Larry Kaskel, MD, 10/29/07)
• ESC PODCAST: Facilitated Angioplasty: A Good Idea That Once Again Fails the Clinical Test. Peggy Peck, Managing Editor, MedPage Today (Dr. Ellis, 9/4/07)
• High Cholesterol with Dr. Steve Nissen, Realhealth TV, 5/07
• Hopes for 'Good' Cholesterol Drug Defy Bad Tests. Joanne Silberner. Your Health. NPR (Dr. Nissen, 3/27/07)
• The Hidden Epidemic, Heart Disease in America . Larry King, PBS (Dr. Nissen, 8/2006)
• Understanding drug safety and effectiveness for your heart with Dr. Steven Nissen. Andrew Schorr's Patient Power Radio, 4/16/06. (a new browser will open with this link)
• Surgical Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation Transcript (Dr. Gillinov, 2/1/05, WebMD)
• Nonsurgical Treatments for Heart Disease (Dr. Tuzcu, 7/26/05, WebMD)
• Cardiac Imaging: Coronary CTA (Dr. Richard White & Dr. Mario Garcia, 8/16/05, WebMD)

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