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UW Medicine Heart Institute provides a full range of cardiac care - from acute inpatient through outpatient clinic and diagnostic care - at hospital and clinic locations around the region. Our multidisciplinary team of cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, and other highly-trained clinicians is internationally recognized for their expertise in treating coronary artery disease, heart rhythm disturbances such as atrial fibrillation, heart failure and adult congenital heart disease. We’re also adept at performing advanced procedures and complex surgeries, including heart transplantation, ablations and percutaneous heart valve replacement.
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Videos
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Younger People Can Suffer From Heart Failure Too
Dr. Claudius Mahr, a cardiologist with UW Medicine's Heart Institute, explains heart failure is a growing, all too common issue that affects people of all ages.
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How To Grow Your Heart Transplant Program in 2019
Vidang Nguyen, MD, explains how to deveolope and expand a heart transplant program. This lecture will discuss the importance of early patient referral for advanced heart failure therapy, how to bridge your patient to transplantation, regional ...
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Don Creighton, MD, presents on functional and secondary mitral regurgitation and how it affects approach to treating heart failure.
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Hot Topics in Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support
Claudius Mahr, DO, FACC, FESC, provides insights into advanced heart failure and mechanical circulatory support by discussing the 2018 UNIOS heart allocation system, centrifugal VAD physiology and RV failure, anticoagulation and blood ...
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The Heart Failure Continuum: An Overview of Contemporary Practice
Claudius Mahr, DO, gives an overview of acute heart failure and the risk stratification in chronic heart failure. Dr. Mahr also discusses new therapeutic options available today.
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Aldosterone Receptor Inhibitors: Effective and Forgotten
Todd Dardas, MD, MS talks about the effectiveness of Aldosterone Receptor Inhibitors and how to identify potential complications and adverse effects of Aldosterone Receptor Blockade.
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Clinical Applications of Beta Blocker Therapy
Claudius Mahr, FACC, FESC, outlines clinical applications of beta blocker therapy and discusses drug selection and heart failure risk stratification.
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Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
Todd Dardas, MD, MS, explains how to identify Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors for use in Stage B-D heart failure.
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Kevin Douglas O'Brein, MD, FAHA, describes why patients with heart failure can have large differences in central venous pressure (CVP) and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP).
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Staging and Prognosis of Heart Failure
Jennifer Beckman, MSN, ARNP, CHFN, describes the stages of heart failure and how to identify advanced heart failure patients and when to refer for advanced treatment options.
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Heart Failure: Identifying the Syndrome and Burden of Disease
Todd Dardas, MD, MS, defines factors that contribute to the prevalence of heart failure, identifies modifiable risk factors that are most responsible for reducing prevalence of heart failure.
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Update on Pacemakers and ICDs: Leaded and Unleaded
Jordan Pruktin, MD, reviews the basics of how cardiac devices work and how to recognize who are good candidates for leadless pacers and subcutaneous ICDs.
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Internal Cardioverter Defibrillators: Issues of Over and Under Utilization
Todd Dardas, MD, MS, an attending physician in heart failure transplant cardiology at the University of Washington Medical Center, discusses the role of symptoms in ICD implant determination.
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Detecting and Evaluating Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure Patients
Tatiana Sadak, PhD, PMHNP, ARNP, Associate Professor of Geriatric Mental Health at the Nursing University of Washington School of Nursing, describes the prevalence and patterns of cognitive impairment in heart failure patients.
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Preventing Heart Failure Admissions: Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring
Gregory Wood, MD, MS, reviews the indications for CardioMEMS implantation, the basic principles for medication adjustment when managing a patient by PA pressure and describes the phases of management of a CardioMEMS patient.
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Approach to Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
Jordan Prutkin, MD, MHS, covers assessing the impact of AF on heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, the application of anticoagulation management and identifying when to use rate and rhythm management options.
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The Impact of Diabetes in Heart Failure
Kevin D. O’Brien, MD, FAHA, discusses the relationship of diabetes and its complications for increased risk for heart failure.
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Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: How Does It Work and For Whom?
Nazem Akoum, MD, gives a lecture on how the electrical mechanical association works in within the heart.
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Updates on Echocardiography in Heart Failure
James N. Kirkpatrick, MD, provides an update on echocardiography and heart failure.