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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New-onset Late AF Is Uncommon After Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement
The risk of late-onset atrial fibrillation after surgical aortic valve replacement is only 4%, according to a study by Thoralf M. Sundt, MD, Chin Siang Ong, MBBS, PhD, and colleagues. Prophylactic tissue ablation or ligation/amputation of the left atrial appendage may not be warranted at the time of surgery.
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3D Printing and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
In this video, Thor Sundt, MD, chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery and director of the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses how the use of 3D printing has become a useful tool in his team's approach to the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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Pathways Case Record: Triggers and Mechanisms of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
A 72-year-old woman presented with severe sudden onset substernal chest pain with shortness of breath while performing yard work after a social interaction, and a transthoracic echocardiography suggested Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). The Pathways Consult Service investigated and focused on key questions regarding TTS.
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Cardiovascular Benefits of Exercise Greater in Individuals With Anxiety, Depression
A recent Massachusetts General Hospital study suggests that exercise nearly doubles cardiovascular benefits in individuals with anxiety or depression. Their findings support previous evidence that regular physical activity benefits heart health by activating parts of the brain that counteract stress.
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Pulmonary Hypertension Has Prognostic Value in Mitral Valve Dysfunction Related to Mitral Annular Calcium
Timothy W. Churchill, MD, and colleagues found that pulmonary hypertension—specifically, echocardiographic assessment of systolic pulmonary artery pressure—adds prognostic value in patients with mitral annular calcium and mitral valve dysfunction regardless of transmitral gradient and traditional CV risk factors.
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
A Hybrid Model of In-person and Telemedicine Visits Facilitates Longitudinal Care Delivery
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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
Greater COVID-19 Severity in Men May Be Due to Greater Inflammatory Response
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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
AI Identifies Links Between Retinal Vascular Patterns and Risk of Cardiometabolic, Ocular Diseases
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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
New-onset Late AF Is Uncommon After Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement
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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.