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Predicting HF Worsening: Speech Analysis Beats Weighing Scales
Heart failure experts, Ileana Piña and Bill Abraham, discuss the HearO study on the use of AI for detecting congestion remotely and other tips and tricks they have learned over the years.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 04, 2023
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Quick, Reliable Marker to PUSH Decongestive Therapy in AHF
Ileana Piña and Wilfried Mullens discuss the PUSH-AHF trial on a spot urine sodium protocolized approach to decongestion presented at the European Society of Cardiology.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 16, 2023
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SGLT2i in Acute Heart Failure, The Earlier The Better?
Ileana Piña interviews Zachary Cox, PharmD, about the DICTATE-AHF trial on the initiation of the SGLT2 inhibitor, dapagliflozin, early in acute heart failure decompensation.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 20, 2023
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Heart Failure Guidelines Update: What the ESC Got Right
Heart failure specialist Dr Ileana Piña discusses what she likes about the 2023 ESC focused update to the heart failure guidelines.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 08, 2023
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GLP-1 Agonists in HFpEF With Obesity: Are We There Yet?
Obesity, a driver of inflammation, is prevalent in patients with HFpEF. Ileana Pina asks Ambarish Pandey about GLP-1 agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors in HFpEF. Are these drugs anti-inflammatory?
Experts And Viewpoints, July 27, 2023
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ACC HFpEF Guidance: What to Know
Ileana Piña, MD, MPH, discusses the Expert Consensus Decision Pathway from ACC focused on the definition, diagnosis, and treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 18, 2023
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Defining Heart Failure: EF Slicing and Dicing
Ileana L. Piña, MD, MPH, discusses the definition of heart failure based on various ejection fraction ranges and changes.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 05, 2023
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Clues to How SGLT2 Inhibitors Work: CAMEO-DAPA
Ileana Piña, MD, MPH, and Barry A. Borlaug, MD, discuss the CAMEO-DAPA study in patients with HFpEF and potential mechanisms of action for SGLT2 inhibitors.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 20, 2023
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STRONG-HF: This Is the Science, Let's Get It Done
Ileana L. Piña, MD, MPH, discusses the need to implement the findings of STRONG-HF in heart failure clinics across the globe.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 03, 2023
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A 'Game Changer' for Heart Transplant?
Dr DeVore, from the first US center to perform an adult heart transplant using an organ donated after circulatory death, explains the differences and similarities with brain-dead donation to Dr Piña.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 24, 2023
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AHA 2022
Is Finding and Fixing Iron Deficiency in HF Beneficial?
Ileana Piña interviews Paul Kalra about the IRONMAN trial from the American Heart Association which randomized HF patients with iron deficiency to IV ferric derisomaltose repletion or no infusions.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 30, 2022
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AHA 2022
STRONG-HF Strategy for Intense ADHF Discharge Care Explained
Alexandre Mebazaa gives Ileana Piña the details on the STRONG-HF trial that showed benefits for early intensive drug therapy after hospitalization for acute decompensated heart failure.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 14, 2022
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AHA 2022
Meds and Community Over Mindfulness for Most Hypertension
Catch up on blood pressure presentations from the 2022 American Heart Association meeting, including ones on mindfulness, community approaches, and a comparison of hydrochlorothiazide and chlorthalidone.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 11, 2022
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ESC 2022
DELIVERing the Details on Dapagliflozin in Heart Failure
Drs Pina and Solomon discuss the DELIVER trial presented at the European Society of Cardiology and whether all patients with heart failure should get SGLT2 inhibitors regardless of ejection fraction.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 02, 2022
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The Pig Heart Transplant Surgeon on What He Learned
Ileana Piña speaks with Bart Griffith about the first porcine-to-human cardiac xenotransplantation and where the field is going.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 15, 2022
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Key Points From the New Heart Failure Guidelines
Dr Ileana Piña discusses the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA heart failure guidelines and how they compare with the European guidelines and recent data on heart failure.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 04, 2022
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ACC 2022
SODIUM-HF Simplifies Message to Patients on Diet
Drs Ileana Piña and Justin Ezekowitz discuss results from the SODIUM-HF trial, which investigated the effects of a pragmatic intervention to reduce dietary sodium intake in patients with heart failure.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 08, 2022
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Is It Time to Redefine Iron Deficiency?
Ileana Piña was intrigued by a paper questioning whether the definitions of iron deficiency used in HF trials and guidelines are the best ones.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 22, 2022
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AHA 2021
CHIEF-HF: No-Touch Initiation of Canagliflozin Improves QoL
Ileana Piña and Eldrin Lewis discuss a novel, all-virtual trial of the SGLT2 inhibitor canagliflozin in patients with heart failure.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 24, 2021
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ESC 2021
Heart Failure Drug Management Tips and Tricks
Drs Ileana Piña and Carolyn Lam discuss how they juggle all the drugs indicated for patients with heart failure.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 29, 2021