Incredibly Grateful!! Matched at Mayo Clinic, MN for Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship 🫀 Thankful to my mentors for their unwavering support in helping me make this dream a reality. Abhishek Christopher DeSimone, MD, PhD Mohamed Labedi, MD, FACC, FHRS محمد رافع لبيدي Abhishek Kulkarni Momin Siddique Saurabh S Dani, MD, MSc Gurukripa Kowlgi, MD, MS

Another first for the SIU Cardiology and MemorialHealthIL Cath lab team!! First case with the much awaited Agent drug coated balloon!! Many thanks to our dynamic IC leaders, Tony DeMartini & Mohsin Salih for bringing this to our community!! SIU Medicine SIU Cardiology Fellows

1/ #HDR. #VUEmusings. Mid RCA CTO with bridging collaterals. Grade 2 L to R collaterals. Here is a brief histological perspective. Salman Arain David J. Cohen, MD, MSc Tsutomu Fujita MD Mauro Carlino Emmanouil Brilakis J Aaron Grantham JAG

PCPs have been gradually eliminated from the team taking care of their patients who needed hospitalization, whereas two decades ago they would be the admitting attending and the “captain of the ship”. I don’t think this has improved delivery of care.

Vinay Prasad MD MPH on Resume vs Eulogy values. Perhaps his best essay ever. Proud to have it on Sensible Medicine Doctors see death almost every day, yet somehow forget it will happen to them. 1/n

Think of LDL like ‘pack-years’ in smoking 👉🏼 Total exposure over time matters! ⏳ Lowering LDL earlier reduces plaque burden & CV events 📉 ⏰ Prevention starts now! 🫀🔥 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4156… #Lipidology #Atherosclerosis American College of Cardiology European Society of Cardiology Journals European Atherosclerosis Society #MedEd

Although rare, aortic valve stenosis can coexist with HCM with obstruction. We present 3 patients with concomitant AS and HCM with obstruction to highlight diagnostic challenges via echo and emphasize approaches to overcoming limitations. bit.ly/3EvhVM7 CV Case Journal

A link between yogurt intake and reduced risk of colon cancer, from cohort of over 130,00 participants, with inverse relationship to Bifidobacterium in gut microbiome tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… open-access

A fantastic Internal Medicine Dept. at SIU Medicine grand rounds by Mukul Bhattarai, our Director of Cardio-Oncology!! So much to learn for our audience! SIU Cardiology Fellows Raj Patel Momin Siddique Abdul Moiz Hafiz

🫀NEW GUIDELINE🫀 Read our newest #ASEGuideline, "Guidelines for the Echocardiographic Assessment of the Right Heart in Adults and Special Considerations in Pulmonary Hypertension!" bit.ly/41pUxXV

#echofirst ✅ TTE done for occasional palpitations, OK otherwise ✅ No aortic gradient or AR ✅ Diagnosis? ✅ Thanks, sonographer DaltonThomas for TTE diagnosis Ekaterina Stellbrink Ritu Thamman MD David H. Wiener, MD Edgar Argulian John-Henry Dean Vladyslav Kavalerchyk 🇺🇦 Perry Wengrofsky, MD 🇮🇱 🎗️ Priscilla Wessly

South Asian adults have a ⬆️ prevalence of known risk factors for #ASCVD, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, & diabetes mellitus. The DILWALE Registry adds additional 📊 to help better inform #cvPrev efforts in this population at ⬆️ ASCVD risk. More: bit.ly/3RhHzXE

Thank you for joining us for #PCIManuals Emmanouil Brilakis! Exciting 2-days discussing the latest in coronary interventions with Khaldoon Alaswad MD Rajiv Gulati Rhian E. Davies DO MS Lindsey Cilia Lorenzo Azzalini Kathryn Dawson Center for Coronary Artery Disease

ECLIPSE publ today in Lancet. In 2005 pts with severe lsn calcification by angiography that did not absolutely require atherectomy, there were no sig differences in acute MSA or 1-year TVF with orbital atherectomy vs. balloon pre-dilatation. Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1krhgV-4XSfdR

This is World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly. Seniors need the strength of the young. Kids need the wisdom and guidance of the old. Too often, they are kept far away from one another.

We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary

Outcomes of Culprit‐Only Versus Multi‐Vessel PCI With Impella Support in Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock - Patel - Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cc…

Cardiogenic Shock Management: Single-Center Experience With a Percutan... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…