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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Medical Grand Rounds: Sports Cardiology, Pregnancy and Future Cardiovascular Health
In a Cardiology Medical Grand Rounds presentation, Michael Honigberg, MD, MPP, and James Sawalla Guseh, MD, of the Corrigan Minehan Heart at Massachusetts General Hospital, presented on the implications of pregnancy history for preventive cardiovascular care and the emerging discipline of sports cardiology.
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Pathways Case Record: Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Genetic testing of a woman with heart failure due to newly diagnosed dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) revealed a likely pathogenic heterozygous mutation in the TTN gene. The Pathways Consult Service investigated the likely impact of TTN mutation on cardiomyocyte function and its potential causative role in DCM.
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Higher Peak Systolic BP on Exercise Testing May Not Indicate Adverse Vascular Function
Gregory D. Lewis, MD, Matthew Nayor, MD, MPH, and colleagues found in a study of 2,858 Framingham Heart Study participants that elevated peak systolic blood pressure on cardiopulmonary exercise testing can be due to a higher level of fitness and doesn't necessarily indicate higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
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
Director, Telemachus & Irene Demoulas Family Foundation Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
New Model Uses Ordinary Clinical Data to Estimate Ascending Aortic Diameter in Asymptomatic Individuals
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Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc
Director, Preventive Cardiology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
BP Polygenic Risk Scores May Complement Measured BP for CVD Prevention
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Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Recent Article
Primary Care Screening for Atrial Fibrillation in Older Adults Feasible But Inefficient
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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.