Specialty Cardiovascular
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Advancing Pacemaker Lead Extraction and Revision
Massachusetts General Hospital team applies multidisciplinary expertise and clinical research to optimize patient care during pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator lead extraction and lead revision.
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Healthy Lifestyle Linked to Less Risk of CAD in Patients With Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Akl C. Fahed, MD, MPH, Amit V. Khera, MD, MSc, and colleagues found that carriers of familial hypercholesterolemia gene variants who followed healthy lifestyle practices had minimal change in LDL cholesterol yet were at 86% less risk of coronary artery disease than carriers whose lifestyle was unhealthy.
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Blood Pressure Assessment During Exercise Testing Aids Risk Stratification of Patients With Heart Failure
Mayooran Namasivayam, MBBS, PhD, Gregory D. Lewis, MD, and colleagues demonstrated that lower proportionate pulse pressure during exercise testing of patients who have heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is associated with a 47% reduced risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
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Acetylcholine Derived From B Cells May Protect Against Cardiovascular Disease
B cells in the bone marrow are an important source of acetylcholine, Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have discovered. B cell–derived acetylcholine regulated normal hematopoiesis and limited emergency hematopoiesis in cardiovascular disease by modulating signals produced by the bone marrow stromal niche.
Cardiovascular Contributors
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Aaron L. Baggish, MD
Director, Cardiovascular Performance Program, Director, Cardiovascular Performance Program Fellowship
Recent Article
How COVID-19 Affects the Heart, Especially in Athletes
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Ahmed A. Tawakol, MD
Director, Nuclear Cardiology, Co-Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Medical Grand Rounds: Stress and Cardiovascular Disease: New Data and Clinical Implications
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Ami B. Bhatt, MD
Director, Mass General Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, Director, Outpatient Cardiology
Recent Article
Videoconference-resiliency Intervention Successfully Targets Health-related Anxiety in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease
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Anthony Rosenzweig, MD
Chief, Cardiology Division, Co-Director, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center
Recent Article
Medical Grand Rounds: Cardiac Manifestations of COVID-19
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Farouc A. Jaffer, MD, PhD
Director, Coronary Intervention, Massachusetts General Hospital, Director, MGH Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) program, Associate Physician, MGH Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Recent Article
Reducing Post-Thrombotic Syndrome Through Reperfusion After DVT May Be Time-Sensitive
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James Louis Januzzi, MD
Hutter Family Professor of Medicine, Director, Dennis and Marilyn Barry Fellowship in Cardiology Research
Recent Article
Reverse Cardiac Remodeling May Underlie Benefit of Sacubitril/Valsartan in HFrEF
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Jason H. Wasfy, MD
Medical Director, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, Director of Quality and Analytics, Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center
Recent Article
U.S. COVID-19 Test Results Strongly Correlate with Race/Ethnicity, Income
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Jennifer E. Ho, MD
Cardiologist, Heart Failure and Transplantation Program, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Arterial Stiffness and Load Significantly Higher in Women Than Men With HFpEF
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Judy Wei-Ming Hung, MD
Director of the Echocardiography Lab, Division of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Tricuspid Regurgitation Uncommon After Surgery for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation But Tied to Cardiac Events
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Nasrien E. Ibrahim, MD
Associate Director, Resynchronization & Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Program
Recent Article
Caution Needed When Interpreting BNP During Sacubitril/Valsartan Treatment
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Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD
Director, Telemachus & Irene Demoulas Family Foundation Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Polygenic Risk Score Identifies Individuals at Risk of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
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Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc
Director, Preventive Cardiology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Lipoprotein(a) Prognostic of CHD in Contemporary Cohort Receiving Menopausal Hormone Therapy
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Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Recent Article
AI-based Analysis of ECGs Complements CHARGE-AF Score for Predicting AF
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Thoralf M. Sundt, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Co-Director, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Director, Cardiac Surgery Clinical Service, Mass General Brigham
Recent Article
Treating Pericardial Disease
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Tomas G. Neilan, MD, MPH
Director, Cardio-Oncology Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Co-Director, Cardiac MR PET CT Program
Recent Article
T1 Value on Cardiac MRI Diagnoses Myocarditis Associated with Checkpoint Inhibitors
Cardiovascular Care at Mass General
At Mass General, our world-class physicians and nurses specialize in specific forms of both heart and vascular disease, and work closely together to offer leading treatments and preventive care for cardiovascular conditions.