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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!

If you enjoy this episode or any of our other Med Reg News podcast material, please fire us a message and say hi! You can email us at medregnews@gmail.com, or follow us on Twitter @medregnews. We love hearing all of your comments. Hope you’re keeping well, and we’ll catch up with you again at the same time next week!

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.

If you’ve been enjoying our Med Reg News series, we’d love to hear from you! You can drop us an email at medregnews@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @medregnews. We’re always delighted to hear your feedback and any suggestions you might have for future episodes. Really hope you enjoy the episode, and we’ll be back with you again very soon!

Brilliant to have your company again for another episode of Med Reg News! And on this episode, we're changing tack slightly and moving on to a new specialty. After six episodes focusing on gastroenterology, we're now going to be thinking about cardiology for the coming weeks. 

In this first episode of our cardiology interviews, we'll be tackling Nuclear Cardiology with the help of Dr Rebecca Schofield. It's an area of cardiology that is developing and innovating all the time, so we really hope you enjoy taking in all of the expert advice Dr Schofield has to share! 

If you're new to the podcast, please follow us on Twitter @medregnews or drop us an email at medregnews@gmail.com. And we look forward to seeing you for more of the same this time next week!

So good to have you back with us for Episode 6 of Gastro News. And we’ve got a real treat in store for you this time. If you can remember back to Episode 1, you’ll know that we’ve already dipped our toes in the world of viral hepatitis with Dr Matthew Cowan. And if you missed that one, please go back and have a listen to it! But now we’re going to take that topic one step further, and look at the cutting-edge research being done into hepatitis today.

It’s such a privilege to have an expert in this field join us today, to help us grasp more of why research into viral hepatitis is so important and so relevant for the patients we might encounter in our outpatient clinics and on our wards. Prof Sumita Verma is a hepatologist and clinical academic at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She has a real passion for seeing better, broader research done into viral hepatitis, and she firmly believes that with active case-finding in vulnerable people groups hepatitis C can be eliminated within our lifetime.

During our chat we touch on everything from Professor Verma’s university days in India, to her thoughts on the pros and cons of the American Health system, as well as hearing her hopes for the future of hepatology. If you have any questions or comments after listening, please drop us an email at medregnews@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @medregnews. It’s been great having your company throughout this series, and we hope to see you soon!