🎉Exciting times for nuclear cardiology w! FDA approval of #Flurpiridaz! Great potential to expand clinical use of PET MPI to redefine how we diagnose and care for our patients! A great moment to be a part of the exciting specialty of nuclear cardiology! #CVnuc#ThinkPET@MyASNC
Welcoming @MikeSketchMD to X so that he can see all of these wonderful messages! Congrats on 38 years in the @DukeHeartCenter cath lab and for inspiring 100s of fellows!!
Can’t believe it’s Dr. Sketch’s last day in the lab. One of the big reasons i went into interventional cardiology. One of the best people I know in all aspects of his life. Thank you for everything!
Excited to share the preprint for our pilot study of early postpartum 🫀 PET imaging following preeclampsia 🤰
Is 🫀 microvascular function altered after preeclampsia?
& does it correlate w/ markers of angiogenic balance in pregnancy (sFlt-1/PlGF)?
https://t.co/5K3tO698I0
1/X
Targeted efforts to create a diverse workforce may have contributed to more women trainees entering cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology fellowships and to recent increases in Black and Hispanic representation, but more work is needed. https://t.co/M8mgsBbxm5
How has women's representation in cardiovascular disease training changed from 2008 to 2022? 📈
✨Overall trainees: 17.6% ➡️ 25.5%
✨Interventional cardiology trainees: 6.3% ➡️ 20.1%
Let's celebrate how far we've come together, but keep pushing for more 💪
#WIC#CardioTwitter
"Although the increases in women trainees were significant, providing hope for continued improvement, they lag well behind the percentages of women trainees in all residencies" @DukeMedSchool#Cardiotwitter@JAMACardio
Read more 👇
https://t.co/fjb4k5GtrW
There have been limited insights of rare Mendelian variants contributing to spontaneous coronary artery dissection. However, new @JAMACardio shows a pretty high enrichment of high SCAD PRS among SCAD cases, esp when familial. https://t.co/Bs3AqFSCTz
@sday_hcm & I contextualize https://t.co/2rWsJrYaGz
In summary, we need to do a better job of making accurate diagnoses and understanding what’s happening to the coronaries in these patients @GoRedForWomen#AHA23 💃🏻
Best for last! Full house for a riveting discussion on chest pain and mildly elevated trops.
Of course there was selection bias of who chose to be here but it was great to see that NO ONE in the audience chose to send the 38 yo F with CP and mildly elevated trops home. 👏💪
⭐️Timely CMR after event for MINOCA can aid in the dx, but if we wait too long those subtle changes may be gone.
⭐️If invasive coronary function testing is not available, use combined CCTA and PET for microvasc dz.
@OdaymeMD@ToddVillinesMD