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The Animal Heartbeat

Kieran Borgeat and Jose Novo Matos

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Frequency: 1 episode/25d. Total Eps: 47

Award-winning podcast dedicated to veterinary cardiology: created, hosted and produced by veterinary Specialists, made for vets, nurses, technicians and students - and, anybody who wants to know more about heart disease in animals. Hosted by Kieran Borgeat and Jose Novo Matos, and featuring top vet cardiology guests from all over the world. Please contact us using the "Message the Hosts" feature, or email us any thoughts, feedback or ideas via animalheartbeat@gmail.com

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Cardiology Controversies 2, with Mark Rishniw

Season 3 · Episode 13

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 • Duration 43:49

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In the finale of The Animal Heartbeat Season 3, Kieran and Jose are once again joined by Dr Mark Rishniw. Double-boarded in Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Mark works as a VIN Consultant and Research Associate of the Simpson Lab at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Through his numerous educational roles, lectures and publications, Dr Rishniw has become known as a critical thinker who is on a mission to bust myths and break down barriers to communication.

In part two, join Mark as he shares his perspectives on coughing in heart failure, and the publication process in 2025.

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Cardiology Controversies 1 with Mark Rishniw

Season 3 · Episode 12

Monday, November 3, 2025 • Duration 49:17

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In the first part of our very special, two-part Animal Heartbeat Season 3 finale, Kieran and Jose are joined by Dr Mark Rishniw. Double-boarded in Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Mark works as a VIN Consultant and Research Associate of the Simpson Lab at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Through his numerous educational roles, lectures and publications, Dr Rishniw has become known as a critical thinker who is on a mission to bust myths and break down barriers to communication.

In part one, join Mark as he dissects the topic of NT-proBNP screening for feline cardiomyopathy, and treatment for pets in stage B2...

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Cardiology icons 1: Prof. Sydney Möise on cardiac arrhythmias

Season 3 · Episode 3

Monday, June 30, 2025 • Duration 01:06:30

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Season 3 of The Animal Heartbeat is all about the Veterinary Cardiology Icons - those who walk among us as legends of the veterinary cardiology world.

This episode features Professor Sydney Möise, of Cornell University, CV Starr Professor Emerita of Cardiology. Prof Möise's research and education output on cardiac arrhythmias has shaped how many of us think about electrical problems of the heart, and she has become known as a pioneer of ambulatory ECG assessment of heart rate variability. Her recent collaborations with Wyatt Flanders, her son, has given the veterinary cardiology world free access to dynamic and 3D Poincaré plots in dogs, broadening our understanding of conduction system disease in animals.

Join our hosts, Kieran and Jose, as they discuss canine cardiac arrhythmias with a legend in their field.

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Artificial Intelligence in Human and Veterinary Cardiology - Live from the Cambridge Festival

Season 3 · Episode 2

Monday, June 16, 2025 • Duration 01:18:52

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Our Animal Heartbeat live panel discussion in 2025 covers the topic of artificial intelligence and its use in veterinary and human patients. Our panel review topics such as how to validate AI tools, where AI fits in current medicine and how opportunities for its use are evolving, and should we worry about AI?

Our hosts Kieran and Jose are joined by a fantastic panel of guests:

Professor Virginia Luis Fuentes; Professor of Veterinary Cardiology, Royal Veterinary College

Professor Anurag Agarwal; Professor of Aeroacoustics, University of Cambridge

Dr Matthew Shun-Shin; Consultant Cardiologist, Imperial College London

Catherine Stowell; Imperial College London and founder of The Animal Ultrasound Association

This episode was recorded live at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as part of the 2025 Cambridge Festival of podcasts.

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Top Tips from Two Seasons of The Animal Heartbeat (Live from SPCAV Congress 2025)

Season 3 · Episode 1

Monday, June 2, 2025 • Duration 36:33

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Join Kieran and Jose as guests of the Portuguese Society of Veterinary Cardiology 2025 Congress, where we reflect on the past two seasons of The Animal Heartbeat, and look forward to the upcoming season 3. Our hosts bring their top lessons from season 1 and 2 guests, including advice from Gerhard Wess, Claudio Bussadori and Josh Stern, in front of a live congress audience.

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The 2024 Christmas Quiz (part 2)

Season 2 · Episode 13

Thursday, December 26, 2024 • Duration 43:47

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This is part 2 of The Animal Heartbeat Christmas Quiz 2024 - is you have not already done so, make sure to listen to part 1 before enjoying this episode!

Merry Christmas to all of our listeners! How better to celebrate the holiday season that a Christmas Quiz? Join Jose and Kieran, alongside some guest hosts - hand picked as future stars of the veterinary cardiology world to test our hosts' knowledge and approach to cardiology case material.

Jose and Kieran have each secretly set questions for the other. Listen to our hosts face the most public challenge to their knowledge of their careers - five questions of escalating difficulty, from generalist-level, through interested practitioner, to post-Residency knowledge, and finally verging on the impossible. Play along with the quiz using the links below to access the case material. You can even comment on each video with your thoughts before the final answer is revealed!

Enjoy the most tense episode of The Animal Heartbeat yet, as Kieran and Jose battle it out for the glory of proving themselves as Specialists in veterinary cardiology. Would they pass a Diploma exam after 10-years as cardiologists? Can their reputation remain intact? Will they still be speaking to each other by the end? Will they keep their jobs? There is only one way to find out...

Full video and audio of part 1 (available 25-Dec): https://youtu.be/QwF5fyCs-9o

Full video and audio of part 2 (available 26-Dec): https://youtu.be/vUR8jYIFIM0

Alternatively, review the media for each question separately on YouTube using the links below whilst you stream the podcast from your usual service.

Q1 for Jose (thoracic radiographs): https://youtu.be/FY8OzrlUG_Q

Q1 for Kieran (thoracic radiographs): https://youtu.be/EPmFc-tME-U

The 2024 Christmas Quiz (part 1)

Season 2 · Episode 12

Wednesday, December 25, 2024 • Duration 01:06:12

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Merry Christmas to all of our listeners! How better to celebrate the holiday season that a Christmas Quiz? Join Jose and Kieran, alongside some guest hosts - hand picked as future stars of the veterinary cardiology world to test our hosts' knowledge and approach to cardiology case material.

Jose and Kieran have each secretly set questions for the other. Listen to our hosts face the most public challenge to their knowledge of their careers - five questions of escalating difficulty, from generalist-level, through interested practitioner, to post-Residency knowledge, and finally verging on the impossible. Play along with the quiz using the links below to access the case material. You can even comment on each video with your thoughts before the final answer is revealed!

Enjoy the most tense episode of The Animal Heartbeat yet, as Kieran and Jose battle it out for the glory of proving themselves as Specialists in veterinary cardiology. Would they pass a Diploma exam after 10-years as cardiologists? Can their reputation remain intact? Will they still be speaking to each other by the end? Will they keep their jobs? There is only one way to find out...

Full video and audio of part 1 (available 25-Dec): https://youtu.be/QwF5fyCs-9o

Full video and audio of part 2 (available 26-Dec): COMING SOON!

Q1 for Kieran (thoracic radiographs): https://youtu.be/EPmFc-tME-U

Q2 for Jose (ECG): https://youtu.be/nAXM_ywLFeI

11: Hallowe'en Special - the most terrifying heart diseases

Season 2 · Episode 11

Thursday, October 31, 2024 • Duration 57:33

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Hallowe'en is a time for bringing people together and sharing scary stories. Did you ever hear the one about the young, newlywed couple who broke down on the country road by the old psychiatric hospital...? No need to worry - this strictly scientific discussion sees Kieran and Jose share stories of the most terrifying heart conditions that they know of. The recording was plagued by unexplained technical difficulties... Jose was was delayed by a closed motorway, and Kieran was recording from a possibly haunted house. Add to that a specially remixed theme tune, and you can't help be in the Hallowe'en spirit after listening to our final FINAL episode of season 2.

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10: The LOOK-Mitral Registry, with Prof Michele Borgarelli

Season 2 · Episode 10

Monday, October 7, 2024 • Duration 55:48

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Mitral valve disease is the most common heart disease diagnosed in dogs. Our understanding of it affects how we manage a wide range of scenarios, from asymptomatic heart murmurs detected at annual vaccination, to patients with respiratory signs or those about to undergo sedation or anaesthesia, or simply receive fluid therapy. Join Professor Michele Borgarelli, from the Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, as he speaks to Kieran and Jose about an innovative dataset on over 6000 dogs with mitral valve disease, the LOOK-Mitral Registry, and how research like this can inform decision making in the clinic.

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9: Diuretic strategy and overcoming resistance, with Prof Mark Oyama

Season 2 · Episode 9

Monday, September 23, 2024 • Duration 01:15:38

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Vets understand that the cornerstone of treatment for congestive heart failure in animals is the use of loop diuretics, such as furosemide. But resistance occurs in all patients over time, and intensification of diuretic treatment is a vital part of managing patients with clinical signs - both for left- and right-sided manifestations of disease. How are we best to approach this, and what can we do when using diuretic drugs to make the best decisions that will have positive benefits for our patients? Join Jose and Kieran as they welcome Prof Mark Oyama, from the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss strategic use of diuretic drugs in the clinic and the most up to date research on how to judge diuretic efficacy in acute and chronic heart failure patients.

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