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Seeking to Determine Optimal Timing for Important Interventions in Adult Patients With Repaired Congenital Heart Diseases
Due to shortcomings in clinical guidelines, determining optimal timing of important interventions in adult patients with repaired congenital heart diseases remains an inexact and incompletely understood process. A recently published paper outlines a theoretical framework for solving this complex challenge that can be both disease- and patient-specific.
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How Mass General Brigham Is Advancing the Care of Adult Congenital Heart Patients
The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at the Mass General Brigham Heart and Vascular Institute offers personalized, lifelong care for adult congenital heart patients, who constitute the fastest-growing population in need of cardiac interventions today.
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Exercise Testing Can Unmask Abnormal Pulmonary Vascular Responses in Patients with Chronic Dyspnea
In a prospective study, exercise-induced pulmonary hypertension was associated with worse CV event–free survival even in the absence of pulmonary hypertension at rest.
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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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Rare Coronary Artery Anomaly Can Cluster in Families, Cause Major Cardiac Events
Cardiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital encountered a very rare case in which a father and adult son, both of whom presented with chest pain and had the right coronary artery arising from the left coronary sinus.
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The Future of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
David Dudzinski, MD, director of the Heart Center Intensive Care Unit, discusses how his team combines the specialties of cardiology intensive care, cardiac anesthesia and cardiac surgery into a unified care team model to take care of the entire span of patients of acute, critical, cardiovascular illness.
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Contributors
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Ami B. Bhatt, MD
Director, Mass General Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, Director, Outpatient Cardiology
Recent Article
Videoconference-resiliency Intervention Successfully Targets Health-related Anxiety in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease
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Doreen DeFaria Yeh, MD
Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, Co-Director, Mass General Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Seeking to Determine Optimal Timing for Important Interventions in Adult Patients With Repaired Congenital Heart Diseases
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.