Love Your Heart: A Cleveland Clinic Podcast

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Digital Health: What Patients Need to Know Sep 06, 2018

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Dr. Steven Nissen talks with electrophysiologist Khaldoun Tarakji, MD, MPH, , Director of the Heart & Vascular Institute’s Center for Digital Health Technologies, about the essentials of wearable digital devices for people with heart disease, such as smartphone- and smartwatch-connected heart rhythm monitors.

Hot Topics in Heart Surgery: Robots and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Sep 06, 2018

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Cleveland Clinic heart surgeon Per Wierup, MD, PhD, explains how robots are used in heart surgery, what types of surgery robots can assist with and how patients are evaluated for robotic heart surgery. He also shares how hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (another of his specialties) is treated with heart surgery.