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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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Coronary Artery Calcium Testing Helps Rule Out ACS in the ED
A Mass General study found that combining coronary artery calcium (CAC) testing with Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) score can better rule out acute coronary syndrome (ACS) than use of TIMI alone for symptomatic patients presenting at the ED
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The Relationship Between Stress and Cardiovascular Disease
Ahmed Tawakol, MD, co-director of the Cardiac MR PET CT Program, discusses the link between stress and atherosclerotic disease, and his team’s work using multimodality imaging to better understand that risk.
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Novel Pathway for Translating Emotional Stress Into Physical Heart Disease
A team of clinicians led by Ahmed A. Tawakol, MD, co-director, Cardiac MR PET CT Program, has found a novel pathway linking psychosocial stress to heart disease. Published in the The Lancet, this study finds that brain activity in the stress-responsive area of the brain (the amygdala) predicts subsequent heart attacks and stroke.
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
Conservative Treatment in Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissections
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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
#ACC18 Video: Scientific Session in Summary
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Hanna K. Gaggin, MD, MPH
Assistant Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
#ACC18 Video: Scientific Session in Summary
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James Louis Januzzi, MD
Roman W. DeSanctis Endowed Distinguished Clinical Scholar in Medicine, Director, Dennis and Marilyn Barry Fellowship in Cardiology Research
Recent Article
ACC.18: Eight Sessions to See
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Malissa J. Wood, MD
Co-Director, Corrigan Women's Heart Health Program
Recent Article
Multidisciplinary Approach to Cardiovascular Disease in Women
Cardiovascular Care at Mass General
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