My amazing MICU team decided to all wear hoop earring today. We dubbed it “hoop Friday”. Coincidence that the more experience team members had, the larger the hoops! ✨☺️1/2#hoopfriday #WomenInMedicine@uw_chiefs
Non Hispanic Black and Asian women with breast cancer experience ⬆️ risk of incident CV disease compared to non Hispanic whites great work from @aediaz25 & Richard Cheng #cardioonc#ACC24#jacccardioonc
We are excited to announce Dr. Michael Chen is going to be the interim cardiology chief at @harborviewmc. Personally, we hope he stays forever. #HarborviewMichaelChen@MC98144
Look who I ran into in the @harborviewmc CCU Team Room! Future @uwashfellows and current @uw_chiefs R3 extraordinaire, Dr @aediaz25 and Cardiology hospitalist extraordinaire, Dr Alvin Cho!
🫀What options exist for the medical management of angina?
💊How do they reduce angina?
🤔How do you choose which agent(s) to use?
Check out my new @CardioNerds infographic on Anti-Anginal Meds for a quick reference on classes, mechanisms, pros/cons, & guideline recs! #MedEd
Congratulations to our faculty @LaraOyetunji & Dr. Creighton Don and @VAPugetSound Cath Lab partners launching the #TAVR program this week, ensuring direct access to this treatment for our Veterans.
My mom graduated from @du1869 and went on to become the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D in biology from @Tulane she went back to Dillard to teach and chair their Natural Sciences department for 25 years. Tonight, they named her old laboratory in her honor.
U cath your ESRD pt for “pre-txp” w/u. They have a well-collateralized CTO of RCA. Pt is asx with good exercise capacity. Txp team won’t txp unless u fix the CTO. Your next action:
Right Ventricular Failure: @NEJM
In-depth review on the right heart: @Brian_Houston12 @RyanTedfordMD
Will try to hit the highlights, but cannot substitute for the details in the full text!
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#ACC23#WCCardio LBCT one-liners:
1. CLEAR Outcomes: Bempedoic acid improves long-term CV outcomes and effectively reduces LDL-C compared with placebo among patients with either established ASCVD or those who have a high risk and w/ intolerance to statin therapy
1/🏥It's your first night alone in the CCU
😵💫You admit a patient with syncope due to complete heart block
🕡HR is 30 bpm with a wide ventricular escape rhythm
You wonder if it's time for your first #TVP, but
🔆is it indicated?
🔆& how are you going to set it up for success?