CardioExchange Archive

November 4th, 2012

The Benefits of Technology

Eiman Jahangir, MD

Dr. Eiman Jahangir sorts through the AHA schedule in minutes using their mobile app and wonders why the AHA still bothers printing the full program booklet. Do you think there should be a way to opt out of receiving the whole schedule on paper?

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December 30th, 2011

CYP2C19 Genotyping: Down For The Count?

Richard A. Lange, MD, MBA and L. David Hillis, MD

The controversy over the use of genetic testing to guide antiplatelet therapy reminds us of a WWF (Worldwide Wrestling Federation) tag team match.   What we agree upon (the match rules): Clopidogrel is a prodrug activated by several enzymes, including CYP2C19, and common genetic variations alter CYP2C19 activity. Here’s where the wrestling match begins: Are the CYP2C19 genetic […]

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November 15th, 2011

An Event, Not a Conference

Eiman Jahangir, MD

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.11 this week are blogging together on CardioExchange.  The Fellows include Revathi Balakrishnan, Eiman Jahangir, John Ryan (moderator), and Amit Shah. Read the previous post here. Check back often to learn about the biggest buzz in Orlando. This is the last day of the conference for me. While I am sad […]

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November 15th, 2011

Finding Wisdom in Unfamiliar Ways in a Familiar Place

Amit Shah, MD, MSCR

The Scientific Sessions are not the only way to learn at AHA.

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November 14th, 2011

What’s Up, Interventionally?

Eiman Jahangir, MD

Martin Leon surveys the expansion of the interventionalist’s world

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November 14th, 2011

Stenosis vs. Stroke: Is Treatment Worth the Risk?

Eiman Jahangir, MD

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.11 this week are blogging together on CardioExchange.  The Fellows include Revathi Balakrishnan, Eiman Jahangir, John Ryan (moderator), and Amit Shah. Read the previous post here. Check back often to learn about the biggest buzz in Orlando. On Sunday morning, I feel like the conference has really begun. I am sitting […]

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November 14th, 2011

At AHA, the Title Says It All

David Martin, M.D.

. . . or almost. Here are some abstract and session titles that have caught my eye so far: Nightmares in the Cath Lab. A session where fellows presented cases gone wrong. I missed this one and sorry I did. Wonder if TCT had anything similar. My Most Challenging Cases: Shock and Awe in the Interventional Suite. […]

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November 14th, 2011

“The Center Where It All Happens”

Reva Balakrishnan, MD, MPH

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending AHA.11 this week are blogging together on CardioExchange.  The Fellows include Revathi Balakrishnan, Eiman Jahangir, John Ryan (moderator), and Amit Shah. Read the previous post here. Check back often to learn about the biggest buzz in Orlando. For this first-year fellow, the AHA has seemed at times like the “light at […]

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November 13th, 2011

Not Just Pomp and Circumstance

David Martin, M.D.

The AHA Opening Session is something I usually avoid, maybe because I feel a bit uncomfortable in large, dark rooms with flashing lights and very loud music (a setup that seems to favor the visually gifted but audiologically impaired). Admittedly, when the recipients of the Distinguished Scientist awards were paraded across the stage to a […]

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November 13th, 2011

AHA’s Best-Kept Secrets

David Martin, M.D.

Late breakers and plenaries aside, a few perennial AHA conference sessions are, I think, often overlooked: Early Career Sessions. Not just for early career folk, these sessions allow any attendee to hear scientific luminaries talk about why and how they do what they do. Where else might you catch Joe Loscalzo describing how the early research […]

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