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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Analysis Reveals Mass General as a National Leader in Treating Carotid Artery Stenosis
Evaluation of carotid artery disease procedures confirms Massachusetts General Hospital as a regional and national leader in benchmarks related to patient outcomes.
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Update in Clinical Cardiology Course: Q&A With Dr. Rory Weiner
In this Q&A, Rory Weiner, MD, discusses what is new in this year's Update in Clinical Cardiology 2023 course and what makes this course such a unique learning experience.
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New Book Envisions the Future of Digital Health
A Massachusetts General Hospital author describes how sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare can revolutionize the current model and maximize preventive medicine.
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Mass General Performs Its First Bloodless Heart Transplant
Massachusetts General Hospital's Heart Transplant Program completed its first bloodless heart transplant on a Jehovah's Witness patient using blood-conserving methods.
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Lipoprotein(a), Oxidized Phospholipids Linked With CVD Severity in a Cohort Referred for Angiography
Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc, Thomas C. Gilliland, MD, and colleagues demonstrated in a contemporary, statin-treated cohort that lipoprotein(a) is associated with the severity of coronary artery disease and clinical outcomes in follow-up, independently of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and other established clinical predictors.
Cardiovascular Contributors
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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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Akl C. Fahed, MD, MPH
Interventional Cardiologist and Physician-scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital , Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Assessing Heart Attack Risk With Genetics: Q&A With Akl C. Fahed, MD, MPH
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David M. Dudzinski, MD, JD
Intensive Care Cardiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Associate Editor, Case Records of the MGH
Recent Article
Standardizing Critical Care Cardiology Training
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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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Gregory D. Lewis, MD
Jeffrey and Mary Ellen Jay Chair and Section Head of Heart Failure, Medical Director of Heart Transplantation
Recent Article
Higher Peak Systolic BP on Exercise Testing May Not Indicate Adverse Vascular Function
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James Louis Januzzi, MD
Director, Dennis and Marilyn Barry Fellowship in Cardiology Research, Cardiologist, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Hutter Family Professor of Medicine in the Field of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Multi-Biomarker Panel Predicts CV Events in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
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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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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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Patrick T. Ellinor, MD, PhD
Acting Chief of Cardiology, Co-Director, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
AI Finds Associations Between Genetically Predicted LV Mass and Future CV Events
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Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc
Director, Preventive Cardiology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Lipoprotein(a), Oxidized Phospholipids Linked With CVD Severity in a Cohort Referred for Angiography
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Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Recent Article
AI Finds Associations Between Genetically Predicted LV Mass and Future CV Events
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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.