A lot of work has been done on the impact of #CTO #PCI on LVEF, which I believe is largely due to reversing ischemia and hybernation in true ischemic CM patients. This is most pronounced in LAD CTO PCI patients. Our new paper American Journal of Cardiology studies the impact of Non-LAD CTO PCI on

A look into the basics for Shockwave Medical's Javelin IVL catheter with Sameh Sayfo, MD, MBA, FSCAI, FACC! #IVL #Peripheral #CardioTwitter This is part of a in-dept presentation that is shared in the thread below!

Coronary Angiography After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Without ST-Segment ElevationOne-Year Outcomes of a Randomized Clinical Trial: JAMA Cardiology 🥸TOMAHAWK - and out of hospital cardiac arrest without STEMI 😱Here you go 👇👇👇👇

Congrats to our first Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship grads: 👏 Juan Guillermo Sierra 👏 Wael Dakkak, MD 👏 Dhiran Verghese Launched in 2022 under the direction of Viviana Navas, MD , the program now hosts 6 fellows/year—one of FL's largest!

Congratulations Yader Sandoval Emmanouil Brilakis Center for Coronary Artery Disease under the support of Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation for the amazing coronary physiology course!! 👏🏻👏🏻you made us so proud! Wonderful educational opportunity with great feedback received. Thanks for this opportunity Allina Health Abbott Northwestern Hospital

Dimitrios Karmpaliotis, Master Operator and Mentor With ‘Heart of Gold,’ Dies at 53 dlvr.it/TLG79F

The simultaneous presence of 4 #OCT high-risk features, although infrequent, was independently assoc w/ cardiac death or TS-MI on long-term follow-up. The presence of any TCFA was 5-fold as prevalent & similarly predictive of 5-yr adverse outcomes jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… #JACCINT

Sahil A. Parikh, MD; Karim Al-Azizi, MD; Lancer Smith, MS; and Brittney Meckley, BS, help us explore the next generation of interventional team protection, highlighting the Rampart system as part of a radiation safety revolution | #Sponsored by RAMPART ic citoday.com/issues/2025-ma…

Today, we broke ground on the RM Schulze Family Heart & Stroke Critical Care Center — future home of the NCH Rooney Heart Institute & NCH Wingard Stroke Institute. This innovative center will bring together world-class cardiac, vascular, and stroke care under one roof, right here in SWFL.

#CardioNuggets Acceleration time and Ejection time in prosthetic aortic valve assessment: 🔹 AT = time to peak velocity 🔹 ET = total systolic ejection time Why AT/ET is useful in prosthetic aortic valves: -Gradients can be misleading—affected by flow, valve size & design -AVA

Cerebral Embolic Protection during TAVI — The Failed Promise | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… My NEJM Editorial – “While biologically plausible & technically successful in capturing debris, CEP during TAVI does not appear to translate into measurable

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Now online JACC Journals: Seal-and-shock: intravascular lithotripsy for management of large-vessel coronary perforation in the setting of balloon under-expansion Karan Sud Emmanouil Brilakis Center for Coronary Artery Disease jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

📜🚨Excited to share our case from NCH Rooney Heart Institute on the First ever Percutaneous #Angiovac Aspiration of Mechanical Mitral Valve Endocarditis - published in JACC Journals jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… Roberto J. Cubeddu, MD Mazen Albaghdadi MD MSc Dee Dee Wang MD Viviana Navas, MD Mass General Heart Harvard Health

Another publication from Rooney Heart! Coronary Sinus pacing in patients with Tricuspid valve intervention. Thank you Dinesh Sharma MD MPH FHRS for your continued support. Dee Dee Wang MD Roberto J. Cubeddu, MD Dhiran Verghese Sankalp Patel JACC Journals sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📜🚨Novel CS Pacing for patients post Tricuspid valve repair #TEER & replacement #TTVR to avoid crossing the valve-published JACC Journals Congrats Daniel Hanna for this case series from NCH Rooney Heart Institute by Dinesh Sharma MD MPH FHRS Dee Dee Wang MD Sankalp Patel Roberto J. Cubeddu, MD Mass General Heart

Exciting news! We now have 18 Cardiovascular Disease Fellows in our program, and we are officially rounding at North Naples Hospital—a big step for heart care and medical education at NCH. Thanks to Viviana Navas, MD for her leadership & Roberto J. Cubeddu, MD and Paul Hiltz for their support.

Celebrating our commitment to education and future generations NCH Rooney Heart Institute Viviana Navas, MD

NCH’s 3-year ACGME-accredited Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, led by Viviana Navas, MD, offers elite training & research. Our first grads are now at Mass General, Lahey Clinic & in private practice. Learn more: bit.ly/44xTzvO

📜💥 Read the editorial by Paul Sorajja & Abdallah El Sabbagh on our case of Percutaneous Mechanical Mitral valve Vegectomy in JACC Journals jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… Roberto J. Cubeddu, MD Viviana Navas, MD Dee Dee Wang MD Mazen Albaghdadi MD MSc Gaston A. Cudemus, MD NCH Rooney Heart Institute Mass General Heart Harvard Health Harvard University