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Featured
Coronary Artery Disease: Pathways and Subtypes
Precision medicine can help answer whether or not current heart disease treatment paradigms optimally address genetic heterogeneity.
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Hope for High-risk Coronary Artery Patients
Many patients with complex CAD are high-risk and ineligible for surgical treatment. Alternative and advanced interventions at Mass General are proving to be effective.
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Coronary Artery Disease - Reporting & Data System (CAD-RADS)
Massachusetts General Hospital clinicians discuss a male age 55 that presents with left sided chest pain and has a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
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Discordance Across High-Sensitivity Troponin Assays Can Affect Management of Suspected ACS
Júlia Karády, MD, and Udo Hoffman, MD, MPH, of the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, observed marked discordance between high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays that would lead to different management of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome who had an inconclusive initial evaluation.
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Advancing Complex Coronary Artery Disease Interventions
Massachusetts General Hospital interventional cardiologists are studying best practices and novel therapeutics to better manage complex coronary artery disease patients.
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Viewpoint: New Insights Into Plaque Erosion as a Mechanism of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Plaque erosion deserves more attention as a distinct entity in patients with acute coronary syndromes—notably because it may potentially be managed with antithrombotic therapy alone without stenting, according to Dhaval Kolte, MD, PhD, and Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD, of the Cardiology Division, and a colleague.
Coronary Artery Disease contributors
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Douglas E. Drachman, MD
Director, Cardiovascular Fellowship Program, Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
Recent Article
ACC 2019: A Media Roundup
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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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James Louis Januzzi, MD
Hutter Family Professor of Medicine, Director, Dennis and Marilyn Barry Fellowship in Cardiology Research
Recent Article
Type 2 Myocardial Infarction Is Prevalent in U.S., Has a Distinct Clinical Profile
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Malissa J. Wood, MD
Co-Director, Corrigan Women's Heart Health Program
Recent Article
Review: Does Patient–Physician Gender Concordance Influence Patient Perceptions or Outcomes?
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
