So good to have your company again, for our final cardiology-themed episode (for the time being at least). Today I’m thrilled to say that we’re joined by the brilliant Dr Lucy MacKillop to discuss cardiac issues in pregnancy. It’s perhaps not a topic that leaps to mind when you consider cardiology topics to revise, but it’s an area that we really do need to have a solid understanding of, as well as being a fascinating area of medicine.

Dr MacKillop is a consultant obstetric physician in the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who trained in Oxford, London and Sydney before taking up her consultant post in 2008. She is a widely published author of academic material, book chapters and educational resources, and is the perfect person to help us gain a better grasp on the most concerning cardiac issues that women might experience in pregnancy, and how we should manage these when we see them.

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Time to explore another complex corner of cardiology with a new expert guest to lend a hand. In this episode we’re going to be thinking about channelopathies. Which ones do you as a cardiology trainee need to be aware of? What are the causes? How do we diagnose and manage them? All will become clear, we hope, after you listen to Episode 9 of Med Reg News today.

We’re delighted to be joined by the fantastic Prof Pier Lambiase, consultant cardiologist and the Professor of Cardiology at University College London and Barts Heart Centre. Prof Lambiase breaks down this tricky topic into manageable chunks for us today, and we trust that you’ll all take as many helpful tips away from it as we did from chatting to him!

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Links:

Brugada calculator: www.brugadariskscore.com 

Brugada drugs website: www.brugadadrugs.org

ESC guidelines on sudden cardiac death (published August 2022): https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines/Clinical-Practice-Guidelines/Ventricular-Arrhythmias-and-the-Prevention-of-Sudden-Cardiac-Death 

JACC EP paper about the BRUGADA-RISK score by Prof Lambiase and colleagues (published 2021): https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacep.2020.08.032

Welcome back to episode 8 of Med Reg News, and the next one in our new and exciting short series of episodes delving into the world of Cardiology. On today’s episode we’re going to be exploring adult congenital heart disease, something that around 4 out of every 1000 adults in the UK currently live with. To help us get a better grasp on this topic, we’re chatting to the wonderful Dr Natali Chung, a consultant cardiologist specialising in adult congenital heart disease at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust in London.

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