Many doctors may believe that acute rheumatic fever is a disease of the past, but it's estimated that, worldwide, there are 500,000 new annual cases, and that 15 million have chronic rheumatic heart disease.
Rachel Helena Webb, paediatric infectious diseases specialist at the Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland, joins us to discuss diagnosis and manage ... Show More
Apr 13
The 15th strike, and bringing compassion back to A&E
Coming up in this week’s episode: The 15th Strike: As the latest six-day walkout by resident doctors in England concludes, the BMJ's news team examines the state of the ongoing dispute over pay and training places. Iain Beardsell, consultant in emergency medicine in Southampton e ... Show More
39m 21s
Apr 3
The unchecked rise of shisha tobacco cafes, and making breastfeeding stick
The BMJ published a negative result this week. A new trial focuses on a peer support intervention for improving breastfeeding rates in the UK, but finds no major improvement. We hear from the lead author who tells us what went wrong, and the insights that can still be drawn from ... Show More
34 m
Dec 2024
405. Case Report: Like Mother, Like Son? Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Infantile Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Lead to a Unifying Diagnosis – Mayo Clinic Arizona
CardioNerds (Dr. Dan Ambinder and guest host, Dr. Pooja Prasad) join Dr. Donny Mattia from Phoenix Children’s pediatric cardiology fellowship, Dr. Sri Nayak from the Mayo Clinic – Arizona adult cardiology fellowship, and Dr. Harrison VanDolah from the University of Arizona Colleg ... Show More
31m 47s
Jun 2022
The Recent Hepatitis Wave with Amy Feldman, MD
<p>Providers and health systems around the world are seeing mysterious Hepatitis outbreaks in pediatric patients. Worldwide, there have been hundreds of cases linked to an "unknown origin." Although medical professionals are scrambling to find answers, there seems to be a link be ... Show More
16m 43s
Oct 2020
77. Case Report: Carcinoid Heart Disease with Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation – Boston University Medical Center
CardioNerds (Amit Goyal & Daniel Ambinder) join Boston University cardiology fellows (Yuliya Mints, Anshul Srivastava, and Michel Ibrahim) for some hotdogs at Fenway Park in Boston, MA. They discuss an educational case of carcinoid heart disease with severe tricuspid regurgitatio ... Show More
44m 31s
Nov 2020
Covid-19 and comorbidities
A recent meta-analysis by Espinosa and colleagues, “Prevalence of Comorbidities in Patients and Mortality Cases Affected by SARS-CoV2”, found that 42% of patients with Covid-19 had comorbidities. Furthermore, 61% of those with Covid-19 admitted to the Intensive Care Unit had como ... Show More
14m 43s