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Featured
New Strategies for Heart Failure Patients Improves Outcomes
One-third of heart failure patients do not respond to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) | A coordinated care approach at Mass General for heart failure patients improves outcomes.
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Featured
The Promise of Ventricular-Assist Devices (VADs)
VAD technology is continually improving. Mass General data indicates new VADs improve 5-year survival rates. Trials for the latest generation are under way.
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Arterial Stiffness and Load Significantly Higher in Women Than Men With HFpEF
Emily Lau, MD, Jennifer E. Ho, MD, and colleagues observed arterial stiffness and load are closely tied to invasive measures of hemodynamic responses to exercise in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The association was particularly pronounced in women.
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Clinical Challenge: Periodic Breathing in Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
Gregory D. Lewis, MD, and colleagues invite cardiologists and pulmonologists to test their knowledge about the implications of cyclic variations in graphical representations of cardiopulmonary exercise test results.
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Acute MI Survivors with Kidney Failure Have Increased Risk of HF Hospitalization
Srikanth Yandrapalli, MD, a clinical and research fellow in Interventional Cardiology, and colleagues determined that survivors of acute myocardial infarction with either acute or chronic kidney failure have 52%–99% greater odds of hospitalization for heart failure within six months than those without kidney disease.
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Optimizing Function for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers are developing a novel palliative rehabilitation model to improve quality of life in older adults with advanced heart failure.
Heart Failure Contributors
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James Louis Januzzi, MD
Hutter Family Professor of Medicine, Director, Dennis and Marilyn Barry Fellowship in Cardiology Research
Recent Article
Reverse Cardiac Remodeling May Underlie Benefit of Sacubitril/Valsartan in HFrEF
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Thoralf M. Sundt, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Co-Director, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Director, Cardiac Surgery Clinical Service, Mass General Brigham
Recent Article
Review: Diagnosis and Management of Infective Endocarditis in People Who Inject Drugs
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.