Specialty Cardiovascular
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Quality Improvement Informed by an Analytics-Driven System Reduces Hospital Readmissions and Improves Care
A Massachusetts General expert uses data analytics to improve the quality, value and delivery of cardiology care.
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Q&A: Matthew Eagleton, MD, Chief of Vascular Surgery, on Innovation and Collaboration
Matthew Eagleton, MD, new chief of Vascular Surgery and co-director of the Fireman Vascular Center, discusses what led him to Mass General, some of the research initiatives he brought with him and why being a surgeon-investigator is so rewarding.
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First Minimally-invasive Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement in New England Performed at Mass General
Physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital recently became the first team in New England to perform a transcatheter mitral valve replacement in a non-calcified mitral valve.
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FlowTriever System Is Safe, Effective for Treating Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism
In the first prospective trial of mechanical thrombectomy for acute intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism, the effectiveness and safety profiles of the FlowTriever Retrieval/Aspiration System were comparable to those of catheter-directed thrombolysis.
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Surgery for Isolated Severe Regurgitation Does Not Improve Survival
In patients with isolated severe tricuspid regurgitation, there is no difference in long-term survival for patients who undergo surgical intervention and those who have medical management alone.
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Certain Risks Higher for Women After Surgery for Severe Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation
According to a secondary analysis of a randomized trial of mitral valve surgery for severe ischemic mitral regurgitation, women are at significantly higher risk than men for death, major cardiac/cerebrovascular events and worse quality of life two years after surgery.
Cardiovascular contributors
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Aaron L. Baggish, MD
Director, Cardiovascular Performance Program, Director, Cardiovascular Performance Program Fellowship
Recent Article
Customized Exercise Testing After Unrevealing Standard Test Improves Diagnostic Yield
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Ahmed A. Tawakol, MD
Co-Director, Cardiac MR PET CT Program
Recent Article
ACC 2019: A Media Roundup -
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
What Is Your New Year's Resolution?
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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
New AI Model Predicts Acute Kidney Injury After Angiography
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Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, PhD
Associate Chief, Cardiology Division
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
New AI Model Predicts Acute Kidney Injury After Angiography
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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
Surgery for Isolated Severe Regurgitation Does Not Improve Survival
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Jennifer E. Ho, MD
Cardiologist, Heart Failure and Transplantation Program, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Leveraging Social Media in Medicine
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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
Surgery for Isolated Severe Regurgitation Does Not Improve Survival
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Tomas G. Neilan, MD, MPH
Director, Cardio-Oncology Program, Co-Director, Cardiac MR PET CT Program
Recent Article
Preventing and Detecting Heart Injury in Cancer Patients
Cardiovascular Care at Mass General
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