Specialty Cardiovascular
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Featured
DCD Donor Hearts Safely Expand Donor Organ Pool
Massachusetts General Hospital is one of five donation after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplant centers in the U.S., investigating DCD donor hearts for transplantation.
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Adverse Neck Anatomy Increases Risk of Late Type 1A Endoleaks
Mark F. Conrad, MD, MMSc, Thomas F.X. O'Donnell, MD, of the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, and colleagues, say close surveillance for late type 1A endoleak after endovascular aneurysm repair is needed for patients with adverse neck anatomy and those who undergo intervention for other endoleaks.
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Medical Grand Rounds: Peripheral Artery Disease in 2022 and Beyond
Anahita Dua, MD, MSc, MBA, director of the Vascular Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Ido Weinberg, MD, medical director of VasCore, presented on peripheral artery disease.
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Physical Activity Associated with Better Cardiovascular Fitness Regardless of Age, Health Status
Matthew Nayor, MD, MPH, and Gregory D. Lewis, MD, of the Cardiology Division, and colleagues demonstrate that all forms of physical activity help maintain cardiorespiratory fitness throughout life, regardless of one's age, sex, body mass index or cardiovascular disease status.
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AI-based Analysis of ECGs Complements CHARGE-AF Score for Predicting AF
Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH, and Shaan Khurshid, MD, MPH, of the Cardiovascular Research Center, and colleagues developed a deep learning computer model that predicts five-year risk of atrial fibrillation using 12-lead ECG data, performing as well as the CHARGE-AF score and even better when combined with that score.
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Prolonged Symptoms Rare in College Athletes Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection, However, Exertional Chest Pain After Infection Warrants Further Evaluation
Using a nationwide registry, cardiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital determined that few college athletes who develop SARS-CoV-2 infection have prolonged symptoms, but exertional symptoms on return to exercise, especially chest pain, warrant clinical evaluation and consideration of cardiac MRI to assess for inflammatory heart disease.
Cardiovascular Contributors
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Aaron L. Baggish, MD
Director, Cardiovascular Performance Program, Director, Cardiovascular Performance Program Fellowship
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Ahmed A. Tawakol, MD
Co-Director, Cardiac MR PET CT Program
Recent Article
Neural Activity on PET/CT Independently Associates with Subsequent Takotsubo Syndrome
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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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Hanna K. Gaggin, MD, MPH
Assistant Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Review: Predicting Cardiac Remodeling in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
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Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, PhD
Attending Physician, Telemachus & Irene Demoulas Family Foundation Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
CRT Improves Left Ventricular Function for Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiomyopathy Patients
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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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Kenneth Rosenfield, MD, MHCDS
Section Head, Vascular Medicine and Intervention, Chairman, STEMI & Acute MI Quality Improvement Committee
Recent Article
Mass General Provides Guidance for Anticoagulation in Patients with COVID-19
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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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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, Director, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center
Recent Article
Non–Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants Are Safe for Selected Patients with Postoperative AF
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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.Resource links
