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The Cardiology Team at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center I think what makes the cardiology team at Banner Thunderbird so special is essentially the breadth...
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[Music Playing] Sherry Demeterco: Atrial Fibrillation is potentially life-threatening, placing a significant burden on patients, healthcare providers, hosp...
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Martin Venderwood: Atrial Fibrillation or AF is a common heart disorder affecting close to 250,000 Canadians. Despite this, results of a recent Lger Market...
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Female: Heart Disease affects more than 20 million Americans and is one of the leading causes of death in this country. But what exactly does the term Hear...
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Female Speaker: The most common cardiac arrhythmia doctors encounter is atrial fibrillation. This irregular fluttering or rapid heartbeat of the upper cham...
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Male Speaker: A new Canadian-lead study provides good news for the 250,000 Canadians who suffer from atrial fibrillation, a heart condition that causes 15%...
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Cholesterol #2: Consequences of a High Cholesterol. High cholesterol is the key risk factor in heart disease which is the biggest killer in America today, ...
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Female: Heart disease affects more than 20 million Americans and is one of the leading causes of death in this country. But what exactly does the term hear...
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When women ask me if they are having a heart attack based on a symptom of what we call a palpitation or an irregular perceived heartbeat, it would be very ...
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Martin Vanderwoude: For a person at rest, not engaged in any physical activity, a heart rate of 60-80 beats per minute is considered normal. For those with...
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Host: What would be in the history that would make you have some concern that kid could have this thing we call WPW or some other related heart condition? ...
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Consequences of High Blood Pressure Among people who have high blood pressure, 30% do not even know about it. And that is a bad news. Because untreated hyp...
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Speaker: Sudden cardiac arrest, that isn't a heart attack, what's the difference? Andrew D. Blaufox: Well I think when people typically think about a heart...
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Faye Lee: You know, for actually generations now there has been an enormous difference between the way women, have been perceived and treated in the cardio...
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Female Speaker: Peripheral artery disease, also know as peripheral vascular disease affects 10 million Americans, mostly over the age of 50. In this segmen...
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High Blood Pressure Preventing High Blood Pressure Is your blood pressure normal? That is great! But before you enjoys sala victoria drink let us look ways...
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Female: Every 33 seconds, someone dies of cardiovascular disease. High blood pressure is often a pre-cursor to heart disease. So preventing and controlling...
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Female: When someone has a heart attack, they need to receive medical attention as soon as possible. How can you tell if you are experiencing a heart attac...
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Interviewer: Heart has many doors that will be four of them. They can become narrow. Can you talk about that a little bit and how you could sometimes fix t...
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Understanding High Blood Pressure One in our Americans has high blood pressure and almost half of them do not even know it. Let us take closer at this comm...
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Female Speaker: Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the world. One out of three women will die from the disease. Once believed to be just a ...
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Host: Is there a difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest? Robert O'Connor: If a physician says to a patient that they have had a heart attack,...
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Male Speaker: What's a ASD? Male Speaker: An ASD is a hole between the two collecting chambers of the heart which are called atria. There is a left atrium ...
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Host: Most people think if you are an adult you only adult cardiologist, cardio-thoracic surgeon. But people with some kind of congenital heart disease, ma...
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What Is Interventional Cardiology I am Dr. Andrew Atiemo. I am an interventional cardiologist at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center. I treat patients in the...
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There are several causes of mitral valve disease, actually quite a few, but there are a handful of common causes. The most common cause of mitral valve dis...
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Julie: Hi! My name is Julie from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My question is, is a heart murmur the same as arrhythmia? Ronald Berger: Julie, a heart murmur is co...
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Male Speaker: Long QT, what is that? Andrew D. Blaufox: The Long QT Syndrome is a inheritable problem for the most part, although there are acquired forms ...
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Interviewer: Some cardiograph, there is a condition ARVD. What is that? Doctor: ARVD is arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. This is a fairly rare c...
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How to medicate for High Blood Pressure If you are among the 25% of Americans with high blood pressure you are first line of defense will usually be hypert...
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If I can give you some information about what to address with your physician, here are three things that you need to ask, and it falls under the category o...
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So the symptoms of heart valve disease actually are very common, very similar amongst the different valve types. The most common symptom of someone with he...
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As with other valves, there really are two main categories of treatments of diseased mitral valves repair and replacement. However, with mitral valve dise...
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Interviewer: Dr. Corte a very common thing comes up in normal pediatric practice, I dont if the doctor hears a murmur. It seems a little vibrato ring it ca...
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Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Athletes Michael DeFranco: Specifically with regards to sudden cardiac death in high school athletes for example, its been es...
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The Danger of Heart Disease for Women Hi, I am Nieca Goldberg. I am a cardiologist, and I have lived in New York City my whole life, and I am also Medical ...
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Some of the other differences between men and women have less to do with how they present, but also how they are treated. Women, once they get evaluated, d...
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If you have a family history of heart disease or heart attacks, it does not guarantee that you will or wont have heart disease. If you look back at that fa...
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A patent foramen ovale or a PFO is a connection between the two atrial or receiving chambers of the heart the right and left atrium. It exists at birth an...
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What are tricuspid valve disease symptoms? You can understand the unique symptoms of tricuspid valve disease by understanding what the tricuspid valve does...
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Mitral valve prolapse is a fairly common, basically benign condition involving the mitral valve. Its picked up by your doctor as a slightly abnormal heart ...
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Host: How is cardiac arrest treated once a patient arrives at the hospital? Robert O'Connor: Well hopefully they have gotten the pulse back. Hopefully, the...
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Host: How exactly does CPR help a cardiac arrest victim? Robert O'Connor: Well the CPR has been around for about 40 or 50 years and we are really now start...
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Host: What can a cardiac arrest witness or bystander expect to happen once help arrives? Robert O'Connor: Well you have a rescue team take over CPR. If the...
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Host: What role can a defibrillator play in the immediate treatment of cardiac arrest? Robert O'Connor: Defibrillators are often thought of as the main tre...
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Host: What are the symptoms of cardiac arrest? Robert O'Connor: Well the symptoms usually what's perceived by the patient and when a person has cardiac arr...
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Robert O'Connor: Hi, my name is Robert O'Connor. I am the Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia. Today, I want to talk about heart heal...
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Host: What can be done to prevent heart disease and problems? Robert O'Connor: Without talking about prevention I think would be the most -- it's much bett...
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Male Speaker: What's a VSD? Male Speaker: VSD stands for Ventricular Septal Defect. It is the commonest in general heart disease and it is a hole between t...
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Sherri Dmyterko: News Canada, Information For Life. A recent Leger Marketing Survey has found that Canadians don't seem to be as on top of their health dur...
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Sherri Dmyterko: Dave Scharf is a poker expert. He has been playing semi-professional black jack and poker for years. He seen first hand some of the effect...
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You know you chest hurts, is it heartburn or something more serious. Sometimes chest pain is not heartburn but a heart attack. Although heart attack sympto...
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Female: If you are among the 18% of Americans with high cholesterol, you might be wondering is there a quick cure. Male: Unfortunately, there is no magic f...
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What Treatments are Available for Arrhythmia Rasheed: My name is Rasheed, I'm from London and I'm wondering what kind of treatments are available for arrhy...
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Female Speaker: Heart disease is the number one killer of woman in the world, 1 out of 3 women will die from the disease. Once believed to be just a man's ...
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Unlike Caucasian men, women actually dont have any true typical signs of a heart attack. We usually think of left-sided chest pain, chest pressure, sometim...
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Hi, I am Dr. Iva Smolens, director of the Womens Heart Center. Women commonly experience symptoms that are very different from men and actually different f...
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A lot of people ask me, what inspires me to be a spokesperson for women and heart disease, and I think the obvious answer is, Oh, she is a heart surgeon. T...
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I think there are a variety of things that are really specific to womens research as opposed to mens. In particular, I think really, the first step is we h...
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Obese women tend to be at greater risk for developing heart disease for a number of reasons. They tend to have higher cholesterol levels, higher triglyceri...
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What is Interventional Cardiology? Dr. Christopher Nielsen: Well, Interventional Cardiology is a branch of cardiology where we are able to do things, proce...
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An atrial septal defect, or a hole between the atrial chambers or receiving chambers of the heart, the symptoms really depend on how big the hole is. The s...
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There are several causes of aortic valve disease. The most common cause is degeneration or wear and tear of the valve, and that happens really over a long ...
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What causes tricuspid valve disease? So interestingly, the tricuspid valve most commonly malfunctions, not on its own, but as a result secondarily to anoth...
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A PFO or a patent foramen ovale is a connection between the two atrial chambers or receiving chambers of the heart, between the right atrium and the left a...
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As with most valve disease, the most common symptom of mitral valve disease is shortness of breath. Again, this shortness of breath can be with exertion, w...
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Host: Does surviving a cardiac arrest put you at risk for another occurrence? Robert O'Connor: In general with most patients who survive cardiac arrest unl...
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Host: How can someone who witnesses a cardiac arrest help? Robert O'Connor: The first thing is they should just call for help, get a phone or ask someone t...
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Host: What are the different reasons why a heart could stop? Robert O'Connor: By finding way the most common reason is atherosclerosis or hardening of the ...
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Raj: Hi! My name is Raj. I am from Millbrook, New York. My question is, if I have an Arrhythmia, does that mean I have heart disease? Paolo Angelini: Raj, ...
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I want everyone to look at what is one of my favorite animations. This is what happens when you have a heart attack. So if your heart's beating and everyth...
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Male Speaker 1: Is it some way you do with ASD where you can do less invasive surgery or a much easy approach? Male Speaker 2: There are multiple technique...
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Host: Do we have pacemakers in children? Andrew D. Blaufox: We do. Pacemakers in children is relatively rare. Children need pacemakers for several differen...
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Female: You know your chest hurts but you do not know the cause. Is it heartburn or something more serious? Male: Heartburn is an unpleasant condition that...
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Female 1: Toprol-XL is the brand name for the extended release version of metoprolol, a high blood pressure medication approved by the FDA in 1992. Female ...
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The ventricles are the bottom two chambers of our four-chambered heart. The left ventricle receives blood containing oxygen from the left atrium above it, ...
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The Causes of Athletic Arrhythmia Keith: I'm Keith from Westhampton, New Jersey. I love sports. I've heard horrible stories of world class athletes who exp...
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In 2007, in the Circulation journal, was published the new updated evidence-based guidelines for women for risk factor modification for heart disease, and ...
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So thats a good question. Abnormal heart valves can actually be prone to developing infections, and so its important in patients who have abnormal heart va...
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There are a variety of causes of heart disease. The most common is a process thats simply called degenerative heart disease, which is essentially wear and ...
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An atrial septal defect is a hole or an abnormal connection between the two atrium of the heart, the right and left atria which are the receiving chambers ...
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So the treatment of aortic valve disease like any valve disease includes the option of repairing the valve or replacing the valve. However, with the aortic...
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What Is Aortic Valve Disease/AVD? Dr. Lishan Aklog: The aortic valve is the outlet valve of the main pumping chamber of the heart. So, when then main pumpi...
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How common is pulmonary valve disease? Pulmonary valve disease is really quite rare in adults. An occasional patient can get an infection of the pulmonary ...
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Mitral valve disease simply is abnormal functioning of the mitral valve. The mitral valve is the valve that prevents the blood from going backwards to the ...
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Poor eating habits, junk food, traffic jams, a sedentary lifestyle. The 21st Century has marked the transformation of Homo Sapien Sapiens into Homo Obesus ...
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Stefani: Hi! My name is Stefani from Boise, Idaho. How much of a factor is gender in rates of heart disease? Charles Campbell: Stefani, it appears that wom...
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Brenda: Hi! My name is Brenda and I am from Fairborn, Ohio. I heard that back pain can be connected to the onset of a heart attack. Is this true? And where...
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Host: Can anything be done to prevent or treat heart emergencies that surprise seemingly healthy athletes and young people? Robert O'Connor: There are diff...
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Gretchen: Hi! I am Gretchen from Oregon. How long does it take to recover from a heart attack? Joseph Kannam: Gretchen, that depends on how big the heart a...
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Leeanne: I am Leeanne from Boise. What are the negative side-effects of heart stents? Leslie Cho: Hi Leeanne! Well, there are definitely complications of h...
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Speaker: If you had someone diagnosed for instance Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, you can do something today to either obliterate or make it less of a pro...
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It has taken a long time for the medical community to become aware of womens heart disease and womens heart symptoms for a variety of reasons. I think init...
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Hi, my name is Dr. Suzanne Sorof and I am a interventional cardiologist and I am also a specialist in womens cardiology. I have been practicing cardiology ...
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My name is Philip Sarrel. I work at Yale University. I started working at Yale in 1963, and in the 45 years that I have been there, there are several diffe...
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What are the treatments for tricuspid valve disease? Let's talk about the treatment of tricuspid valve disease. Since most patients with tricuspid valve di...
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Scott: Hi! My name is Scott, I am from Washington DC, and I was wondering what are some signs of heart disease in young people? Charles Campbell: Hi Scott!...
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Host: How long can a victim of cardiac arrest wait for treatment? Robert O'Connor: They don't have that much time. They have maximum 4-6 minutes. Without t...
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Dr. Susan Sharma: This is insidermedicine in 60. From Orlando According to research presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting, a combination ...
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So what's your mouth got to do with your heart? Well may be a lot according to study is showing people with gum disease already increased risk of heart dis...
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The Dangers of Job Stress on a Woman's Heart Maggie: In this morning's Health Watch: Women and Stress, a new study finds that high levels of stress at work...
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Sherri Dmyterko: Whether you grab a handful on a go, add it to your granola or sprinkle a few in a salad, pecans are versatile, delicious and good for you....
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