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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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Healed Plaques Signal Vulnerability to Future Acute Coronary Syndrome
Based on the first in vivo study of healed plaques in patients who have had acute coronary syndrome (ACS), cardiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital warn that these plaques frequently show features of vulnerability to future major cardiac events.
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HDL Apolipoproteins May Identify Risk, Prognosis of CAD
Analysis of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) apolipoproteins, individually and together, identifies patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and may be able to flag those at increased risk of cardiovascular death when CAD is present.
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Combined Carotid Endarterectomy and CABG Is Performed Well Across U.S., but Patient Selection Often Disregards Guidelines
When carotid endarterectomy and coronary artery bypass grafting are combined in the same procedure, outcomes are good across the U.S., but contrary to guidelines, the combination is used most commonly for patients with asymptomatic unilateral carotid disease.
Massachusetts General Hospital Corrigan Minehan Heart Center
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
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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James Louis Januzzi, MD
Hutter Family Professor of Medicine, Director, Dennis and Marilyn Barry Fellowship in Cardiology Research
Recent Article
HDL Apolipoproteins May Identify Risk, Prognosis of CAD
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Malissa J. Wood, MD
Co-Director, Corrigan Women's Heart Health Program
Recent Article
Leveraging Social Media in Medicine
Cardiovascular Care at Mass General
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