Specialty Cardiovascular
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New Collaborative Program Improves Marfan Syndrome Outcomes
The Marfan Syndrome and Related Conditions Program at Massachusetts General Hospital delivers comprehensive, lifetime care, including valve-sparing aortic root replacements, to increase life expectancy in patients with Marfan syndrome
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Proteomics Profiling Reveals Plasma Biomarkers of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
In the first study of its kind, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital applied proteomics profiling to reveal plasma protein biomarkers of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—and found that some of the proteins correlated with known indicators of advanced disease.
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Hypertension and CVD Are Among Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19
Many patients in a cardiology practice are at risk of developing severe COVID-19 if they become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus.
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Cardiology Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Guidance for Treating Both Uninfected and Infected Patients
Routine use of ACE inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers should be continued, but these drugs should not be started for patients who develop COVID-19.
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Better Prognostic Risk Scoring Needed for Patients with Type 2 Myocardial Infarction
In this first study of its kind, the GRACE, TIMI and TARRACO scores were at best only modestly predictive of adverse outcomes in patients with type 2 myocardial infarction.
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Pulmonary Hypertension Increases Risk of Poor Outcomes After Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair
Pulmonary hypertension was common in patients with severe mitral valve regurgitation and was associated with increased mortality and readmissions for heart failure after transcatheter mitral valve repair.
Cardiovascular contributors
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Aaron L. Baggish, MD
Director, Cardiovascular Performance Program, Director, Cardiovascular Performance Program Fellowship
Recent Article
Weight Gain in College Football Players Is Mechanism of Subclinical Cardiovascular Pathology
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Ahmed A. Tawakol, MD
Co-Director, Cardiac MR PET CT Program
Recent Article
Neuroimmune Pathway Linked to Socioeconomic Status and CVD Outcomes -
Ami B. Bhatt, MD
Director, Mass General Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
Recent Article
Subclinical Atherosclerosis Can Be Identified in Adults with Coarctation of the Aorta
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Anthony Rosenzweig, MD
Chief, Cardiology Division, Co-Director, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center
Recent Article
Study Shows ActRII Signaling Contributes to Heart Failure and Aging
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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
Interventional Treatment of Chronic Total Occlusion
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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, Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, 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
Review: Myocardial Injury in the Era of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assays
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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
Better Prognostic Risk Scoring Needed for Patients with Type 2 Myocardial Infarction
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Jennifer E. Ho, MD
Cardiologist, Heart Failure and Transplantation Program, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Men and Women with HFpEF Differ in Physiologic Responses to Exercise
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Kenneth Rosenfield, MD, MHCDS
Section Head, Vascular Medicine and Intervention, Chairman, STEMI & Acute MI Quality Improvement Committee
Recent Article
FlowTriever System Is Safe, Effective for Treating Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism
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Nasrien E. Ibrahim, MD
Associate Director, Resynchronization & Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Program
Recent Article
New AI Model Predicts Acute Kidney Injury After Angiography
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Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Recent Article
Leveraging Social Media in Medicine
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Thoralf M. Sundt, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Director, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center
Recent Article
Outcomes of Elective Cardiac Surgery at Mass General Not Affected by Start Time
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Tomas G. Neilan, MD, MPH
Director, Cardio-Oncology Program, Co-Director, Cardiac MR PET CT Program
Recent Article
Hypertension and CVD Are Among Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19
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
