The Naked Heart

When a patient arrives breathless and unable to climb a hill, the instinct is to blame the heart. Sometimes the answer lies in the blood itself. Iron deficiency anaemia reduces oxygen delivery, forces the heart into a hyperdynamic state, and can even produce a murmur over a completely normal valve.

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What is The Naked Heart?

The Naked Heart is a weekly series of blogs and social media publications from English cardiologist Dr Edward Leatham. His brief is to apply 50 years of breathing and practicing medicine to the series as part of a move from cardiologist and physician to educator.

The podcast publications that accompany each blog are AI constructs designed to broaden my audience and make quite complicated yet important knowledge more accessible.

The blog articles release each week provide additional information for readers https://www.scvc.co.uk/category/naked-heart/

Podcasts until Jan 2026 are located at https://Nakedheart.podbean.com

Podcasts after Jan 2026 are located at https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-naked-heart