Posts by Timothy Churchill, MD
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Pulmonary Hypertension Has Prognostic Value in Mitral Valve Dysfunction Related to Mitral Annular Calcium
Timothy W. Churchill, MD, and colleagues found that pulmonary hypertension—specifically, echocardiographic assessment of systolic pulmonary artery pressure—adds prognostic value in patients with mitral annular calcium and mitral valve dysfunction regardless of transmitral gradient and traditional CV risk factors.
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Clinical Diagnostic Tools May Misclassify HFpEF in Dyspnea Patients
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) can be challenging to diagnose, and recently risk scores have been developed to aid in diagnosis. For patients with chronic dyspnea, clinician-researchers in the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center sound a note of caution about using these scores including the HFA-PEFF algorithm and H2FPEF score to rule out HFpEF.
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Long-term Endurance Athletes Are at Increased Risk of Aortic Dilatation
Ascending aortic dilatation is more prevalent among aging endurance athletes than in the general population.
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Customized Exercise Testing After Unrevealing Standard Test Improves Diagnostic Yield
If standardized maximal-effort, graded exercise testing is inconclusive, same-session customized exercise testing is likely to provide clinically useful information about patients with exertional symptoms suggestive of cardiovascular disease.
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Weight Gain During NFL Career Linked to Post-Retirement Health Problems
Weight gain among elite football players, often a deliberate strategy to improve performance, is associated with a range of post-career chronic diseases, Massachusetts General researchers have determined.
Biography
Timothy Churchill, MD, is a cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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