In the latest episode of the Heart Failure Beat, a podcast from the Heart Failure Society of America, Michael H. Beasley, MD, and Priya Umapathi, MD, spoke with Yousif Ahmad, BMBS, PhD, about coronary revascularization in patients with ischemic heart failure.

First, Beasley reviewed a recent study published in JAMA, which uses patient data from the Global Congestive Heart Failure Registry to examine differences in heart failure etiology, treatment, and outcomes in more than 250 centers in 40 countries at different levels of economic development.

Next, Ahmad shared best practices in the management of patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and underlying coronary artery disease.

“The diagnostic aspect can be complicated. It's not as simple as doing an ischemic test or an angiogram and then determining causality from that. There's no one test that tells us unequivocally the cause of the systolic dysfunction is ischemia versus not,” said Ahmad.

Listen to the podcast episode. For more information about the Heart Failure Beat, please contact hfbeat@hfsa.org.

Michael H. Beasley, MD, is an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist

He is an assistant professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and an active member of the Department of Internal Medicine diversity committee and Yale School of Medicine clinical skills committees. Beasley treats patients in the Heart Transplant and Left Ventricular Assist Device Program. In addition, he also participates in the United States Navy Reserve as a Medical Corps Officer.

Originally from Michigan, Beasley holds a bachelor's degree in Michigan State University, where he graduated with honors. He joined the United States Peace Corps prior to earning his medical degree from Michigan State University. He completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at University of South Florida. He then returned to Michigan for training at Beaumont Health followed by an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology fellowship at Yale.

Yousif Ahmad, BMBS, PhD, is an interventional cardiologist who specializes in complex coronary lesions and structural heart interventions for valvular heart disease

He is an assistant professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. Ahmad is also the assistant program director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program.

He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate medical training at the University of Nottingham and was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He pursued advanced training in general and interventional cardiology training at the Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London and holds a PhD in aortic and coronary physiology at Imperial College London. He subsequently moved to the U.S. for advanced procedural training. He completed advanced fellowships in CTO and Complex/High Risk PCI and Mechanical Circulatory Support (CHIP Fellowship) at Columbia University and in Structural Heart Disease at Cedars-Sinai.