Heart to Heart with Dr Michelle O'Donoghue

The Cardiac Stress Test You Can't Ignore Pregnancy not only reveals a woman's future CV risk but can also cause changes at the endothelial level that increase that risk. Cardiologists Michelle O'Donoghue and Rachel Bond discuss the issues.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 22, 2023
Is Bempedoic Acid the CLEAR Answer to Statin Intolerance? Cardiologists Michelle O’Donoghue and Ann Marie Navar discuss the CLEAR Outcomes trial on Bempedoic acid in patients at high CV risk with statin intolerance and where this drug may fit in the lipid lowering arsenal.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 08, 2023
AHA 2022 Does Lipoprotein(a) Play a Causal Role in ASCVD? Michelle L. O'Donoghue, MD, MPH, and Stephen J. Nicholls, MBBS, PhD, discuss the evidence on lipoprotein(a) and its potential role in atherosclerosis and aortic stenosis.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 28, 2022
AHA 2022 Did ISCHEMIA Change the Path to Cath in Stable CAD? Michelle O'Donoghue and interventional cardiologists Rasha Al-Lamee, and Jacqueline Tamis-Holland discuss if the ISCHEMIA trial changed the management of patients with stable coronary artery disease.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 21, 2022
ESC 2022 What's the Best Anticoagulation Strategy for COVID-19 Patients? Drs Michelle O'Donoghue and David Berg discuss results from the COVID-PACT study, presented at the European Society of Cardiology, on anticoagulant therapy for hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 12, 2022
ESC 2022 Should Aspirin Be the Second-Line Antiplatelet in CAD? From European Society of Cardiology 2022, Drs O'Donoghue and Valgimigli discuss the latest analysis suggesting that for single antiplatelet therapy in patients with CAD, P2Y12 inhibitors beat aspirin.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 31, 2022
ACC 2022 Making Healthy (Plant-Based) Diets the Easy Choice Drs Michelle O'Donoghue and Robert Ostfeld discuss plant-based nutrition and how to make it easier for us to choose healthy foods to improve our cardiovascular health.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 09, 2022
ACC 2022 SuperWIN: Supermarket Partnership Improves DASH Diet Score In a novel trial, DASH diet scores improved after participants were taught how to shop for healthier food, whether online or instore. Investigator Dylan Steen shares the details.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 06, 2022
AHA 2021 Surgical Consult From AHA: Act Earlier in AS and TR? Michelle O'Donoghue and Patrick O'Gara discuss early surgery in asymptomatic AS and concomitant TR repair in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery. Should either trial change practice?
Experts And Viewpoints, November 19, 2021
ESC 2021 Is 1-Month DAPT Safe? Reconciling MASTER DAPT and STOPDAPT-2 Drs O'Donoghue and Valgimigli discuss abbreviated dual antiplatelet therapy data in high bleeding risk and acute coronary syndrome from studies presented at the 2021 European Society of Cardiology Congress.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 13, 2021
ACC 2021 Does ADAPTABLE Inform Aspirin Dosing for Secondary Prevention? Patient engagement, social media, and the internet all contributed to the unique design of the ADAPTABLE trial, but did it answer the question on the best dose of aspirin to use?
Experts And Viewpoints, May 17, 2021
New Physician Moms Need More Resources and Less Guilt Returning to practice after maternity leave prompted Michelle O'Donoghue to advocate for new moms in the healthcare workplace.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 04, 2021
No Obstruction Shouldn't Mean No Diagnosis: HARP-MINOCA A new study finds that multimodal imaging can reveal the cause of most MINOCA. Lead investigator Harmony Reynolds shares the details from her AHA presentation with Michelle O'Donoghue.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 04, 2021
When It's Assumed That You're the Cleaner, Not a Cardiologist Backstage at a cardiology conference, Michelle O'Donoghue was handed the dirty coffee mugs; the AV tech assumed she was the cleaner and not one of the late-breaking trial discussants.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 26, 2020
No Shame in Choosing Not to Be a COVID-19 Hero A revealing FaceTime call with her mother, a fellow cardiologist, caused Lisa Rosenbaum to change course during the COVID-19 surge. The NEJM columnist discusses her reasoning with Michelle O'Donoghue.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 25, 2020
What Does VOYAGER PAD Mean for Antithrombotic Therapy? What are the practice implications of the study that compared low-dose rivaroxaban plus aspirin vs rivaroxaban alone? How does it differ from COMPASS? Michelle O'Donoghue gets answers from the PI.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 03, 2020
Dropping Aspirin Post PCI: Are We There Yet? Is P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy post PCI ready to go mainstream? Michelle O'Donoghue considers the question of when to drop aspirin in the context of recent trials on antiplatelet therapy.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 30, 2020
Why This Cardiologist Trained in Critical Care Medicine Michelle O'Donoghue and Erin Bohula discuss issues in critical care cardiology, such as challenges for trainees and the need for more research to strengthen the lacking evidence base.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 15, 2019
Women as One: 'The Sky's the Limit' for Women in Medicine Roxana Mehran, MD, co-founder of Women as One, explains its mission to coach and mentor female physicians to develop leadership skills, learn negotiation tactics, and maximize their talents.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 08, 2019
Apple Watch ECG: Helpful or Headache? The new ECG feature on the Apple Watch has Michelle O'Donoghue, MD, wondering whether technology is outpacing our ability to interpret and analyze resulting data.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 17, 2019

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