Dr Malik’s Patient Videos Episode 2: Radial Angiogram

Dr Malik says: I have often been asked to help in airplane emergencies. This article provides the less experienced clinician with helpful tips. It is...

An Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) is a hole in the heart that can be present without any symptoms.   The treatment choices are:   1....

A patient explains the fear he had before the coronary angioplasty (PCI or PTCA), but how easy he felt during it.  Some patients do feel...

From Dr Malik’s NHS base, Hammersmith Hospital: another satisfied patient who has had angioplasty to the heart (PCI or PTCA). He describes a hot feeling...

An NHS patient at Dr Malik’s hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, talking about how straightforward a radial angiogram is: Watch the video here!

Dr Malik talks through coronary artery stenting (PCI or PTCA) with a patient at Hammersmith Hospital. Patients can be very anxious about the procedure. Watch...

Dr Malik says: Two trials have come up with absolutely opposite results. Why? The positive trial , COAPT, had more severe mitral regurgitation and less...

Dr Malik says: Forget the risk of falls, snow and ice. Oxygen levels are lower at altitude – no good if you have heart or...

Dr Malik says: Claudication (pain in your calves when walking) can be a sign of hardening of the blood vessels. Get checked out and address...

Dr Malik says: Talk to the doctor, get your lifestyle sorted out, actually swallow the pills prescribed to you (they don’t work if not swallowed),...

Dr Malik reports: I was involved in the CARDia trial of angioplasty (PCI) versus surgery ( CABG). FREEDOM was a larger trial that reported a...

Dr Malik reports: I had fallen out of love with fish oils, Maxepa, and triglyceride lowering. At the AHA meeting in Autumn 2018, triglycerides (TG) became...