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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Study Shows Sedentary Time Increases Cardiovascular Disease
Sedentary time negatively impacts heart health regardless of whether a person follows exercise guidelines.
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Study Explores Patterns of Exercise and Disease Risk
Results show that 'weekend warrior' exercise is as effective at lowering risk as evenly distributed exercise, challenging guidelines and clinical advice.
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Pathways Case Report: A Case of Extracranial Giant Cell Arteritis
A 90-year-old woman presented to the hospital with 3-4 weeks of back pain radiating to her chest and abdomen without additional constitutional symptoms.
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Pathways Case Report: Anti-HMGCR Statin-associated Myopathy
A 69-year-old man with a past medical history of a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) with drug-eluting stent placement approximately three and a half years prior was admitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital with back pain radiating to the shoulders and hip.
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Study: Inhaled Flecainide Converts Atrial Fibrillation
An experimental formulation of inhaled flecainide acetate shows promise for reducing hospital admissions for atrial fibrillation and minimizing flecainide side effects.
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
New Approach Uses Public Genomics Data to Predict Risk of Cardiometabolic Disease in Non-European Populations
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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
Cardiorenal Biomarkers Predict Major Complications in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and 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
Physician Burnout Rate at Mass General More Than Doubled Between 2019 and 2021
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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.